Thursday, December 4, 2008

ROAR - The 26 Letters

The 26 Letters
By Oscar Ogg
Chapter 7

5comments:
- Carlo did a lot of good deeds before he died and became a subject of numerous legends.
- The alphabet was modified and developed by semi Irish monks.
- Sometimes the words are written together so that it'd be faster writing yet it is still readable.
- They like to write fancy.
- Alcuin adopted from other cultures and the different styles.

4questions:
- What did Carlo do that was soo great for them to start writing stories about him?
- Who came up with the idea of writing it together so that they could write faster?
- Why did they start to write slanted with their alphabet?
- Why do they use math to write their alphabet?

3vocabulary:
- Leisure(pg166): Freedom from comands of working.
- Haphazard(pg168): Characterized by lack of order or planning.
- Harmonize(pg172): To bring into agreement.

2literacy terms:
- "...as rude and barbaric like the goth..."(pg174)
- "Italy"(Where its taking place)

1overview sentence:
- Italy's alphabet create the italic words, Carlo did a lot of good deeds as they said and that he became serious numbers of legends and that they like to write slanted (italic), also Alcuin started to modified and develope another version of the Italian alphabet.

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