Tuesday, December 2, 2008

ROAR - The 26 Letters

The 26 Letters
By Oscar Ogg
Chapter 4

5comments
- Greece had the smallest empire but the greatest glory and influence.
- It depends on which ever way the furrow goes is how you read it.
- After the Phoenicians write their letters, Greeks slighlty modified the sign by a slightly bit.
- It took a while till punctuation came.
- They use to have only 13 basic alphabet.

4questions
- How come the Greece borrow some of the Phoenicians?
- Who decides how the letters look like?
- Why didn't they just keep it the way it is instead of modifiying it?
- How are they sure what happen really happens or did they interpret in their own words?

3vocabulary
- Consonants (pg87): Being in agreement or accord.
- Memoranda (pg98): Memolike.
- Parchment (pg 100): Manuscript or document on such material.

2literacy terms
- "...in no sense a naion united like our own..." (pg86)
- "...and looked like a door with panels..." (pg91)

1overview sentence
- This is about how the Greece borrow some words to write and as time goes by, their writing has improved to the moderen writing and that punctuation didn't come soon, also how it took a while for the words and that by using images they created their alphabet list.

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