Tuesday, December 9, 2008

ROAR - The 26 Letters

The 26 Letters
By Oscar Ogg
Chapter 9

5comments:
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Morris is a devotion in life.
- Letter press is printing,
- Chinese is known for the repeating designs.
- People is very interested in theier alphabets.
- Its amazing how long it had took and how many people it took to make our alphabet shapes and how the printing became an important part of literature.

4questions:
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Why are their names so different?
- Does the place they talked about it still exsist?
- What ade them choose the word Intaglio?
- Why did they use the word press?

3vocabulary:
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Mainstreams(pg255): To incorporate into a prevailing group.
- Linger(pg259): To remain/stay on in a place longer than is usual or expected.
- Sensitized(pg266): To render sensitive.

2literacy terms:
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"Lettering alphabets like squire"(pg255)
- "...of printing as well as by fads and fashion..."(pg261)

1overview sentence:
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This is about basically how our alphabet became how it is and how the last step it took everything to get together to make our alphabet looks like and how we write them, also how it took alot of time and alot of people in order to make our alphabet happens.

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