Wednesday, December 3, 2008

ROAR - The 26 Letters

The 26 Letters
By Oscar Ogg
Chapter 5

5comments:
- Alphabet is the first thing that Rome ever borrowed.
- Rome is reffered as "she".
- Language remains mystery.
- Rome didn't use alot of letters.
- Depends on either swell of the curves, differnt "weight", or thickness of horizontal, vertical and or obligque storkes.

4questions:
- How did they pronounce their letters back then?
- How did it change?
- Who came up with the letters in the first place?
- Why did they decide to have letters?

3vocabulary:
- Fabled(pg102): No real exsistence.
- Gradual(pg106): Taking place, movement.
- Serifs(pg116): A fine line finishing off the main strokes of a letter.

2literacy terms:
- "...;it, like the more flowing shape..."(pg107)
- "...was developed through writing as compared to DRAWING..."(pg108)

1overview sentence:
- This is about how rome had adapted their letters from other places and just switch it up by using their own techniques of writing their own letters and that their letters remain mystery somehow and they also didn't use alot of letters in their alphabet.

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