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.

ROAR - The 26 Letters

The 26 Letters
By Oscar Ogg
Chapter 6

5comments:
- Sucat won over the Christianity.
- The Pope was pleased with his work and gave him the name "Pacricius" which meant noble.
- Sucat tried to create the letters, his wasn't as modernized yet.
- Their letters began to look more like ours, more modernized and simpler.
- They wrote very thin with designs.

4questions:
- How did the Pope united together?
- What does "Pope" means?
- Why do they write thin?
- Why do they design on their letters?

3vocabulary:
- Bondage(pg146): Slavery.
- Pagan(pg146): A person who is not a Christian, Jew, or Muslim.
- Quill(pg 153): A bobbin or spool.

2literacy terms:
- "...worked for 6 years as a slave..."(pg 147)
- "From Italy to Germany"(setting)

1overview sentence:
- Sucat is a boy from Italy and he done many things that the pope was pleased about so they named him "Patricius" - nobel, they wrote very thin with many designs however, it is still readable and that this is basically about how Italy and Germany got their alphabet from, it is also know as "Small letters".

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.

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.

ROAR2 - The 26 Letters

The 26 Letters
By Oscar Ogg
Chapter 3

5comments:
- They have no books.
- Their alphabet accounts the record.
- Phoenicia is now called Syria.
- Phoenicia means "blood-red".
- They have slaves.

4questions:
- Who was the first soldier?
- How do they know when the first alphabet was started?
- Who came up with the drawings for the Egyptians?
- Who was the first king?

3vocabulary:
- Catastrophes (pg75): A complete failure.
- Ideographic (pg75): Representing of a ideogram (written symbols that represent an idea or object directly).
- Aleph (pg78): Ox.

2literacy terms:
-"...Hebrew letters as well as our own..." (pg 80)
- "...Moabite stone was discovered in 1868..."(pg81)

1overview sentence:
- This is about how there were no books, how Phoenicia is now known as Syria, it also meant blood-red for the soldiers, they do have slaves and they borrow some Ugaritic and early noncuneiform to make their alphabet.

ROAR2 - The 26 Letters

The 26 Letters
By Oscar Ogg
Chapter 2

5comments:
- Egyptians like to draw many figures of animals and birds and sometimes even a "curious combinations" of birds and animals with human features.
- As the Egyptians ancestors before therm and their offsprings had change and add to the meanings of many pictures.
- Waving water used to stand for the letter "N".
- Each cultures have their own ways of telling stories (pictures had different meanings).
- They all have different ways of coming up with ideas and why and what it meant.

4questions:
- Why didn't they draw plants but animals?
- How come they combined the features of animals, birds and humans together in a drawing?
- Who came up with the idea of drawing?
- When did this all happen, and did it happen at the same time?

3vocabulary:
- Legions (pg43): A large number.
- Hieroglyphs (pg47): A picture or symbol used in hieroglyphic writings.
- Papyrus (pg60): A tall, aquatic plant.

2literacy terms:
- "...more than twice as long as the history of Christian civilization..."(pg50)
- "...and a true alphabet like our own..."(pg58)

1overview sentence:
- This is about how and what the Egyptians had done for their alphabet, and how they read their drawings and each and every pictures have different meanings and that they uses tool to write with and used paper to write on.

ROAR2 - The 26 Letters

The 26 Letters
By Oscar Ogg
Chapter 1

5comments:
- When they move, they don't take everything of theirs to their new home an remake weapons, untensils and etc for their new home.
- They draw to tell stories.
- Their drawings are unfinished most of the time.
- Later on, humans start to become part of the stories.
- Quious are knotted cords use by the Incas.

4questions:
- Who was the first person to draw?
- Who came up with the idea of carving animals on stones?
- What did they use to draw with?
- How were they so artistic?

3 vocabulary:
- Fetishes (page9): "An object that is believed to have magical or spiritual powers, especially such an object associated with animistic or shamanistic religious practices."
- Relics (pg13): " A surviving memorial of something past."
- Phonogram (pg41): "A unit symbol of a phonetic writing system, standing for a speech sound, syllable, or other sequence of speech sounds without reference to meaning."

2literacy terms:
-"...and the creatures who made them were more like apoes than men." (pg6)
-"...that this art, like all art..." (pg9)

1overview sentence:
- This is basicially about how and what the people back in the time does, like why they carved, and how it meant, also how people read it and that they drew on walls to tell story and how it became better and more real life like, also how each cultures had different way of drawing their stories and their symbols mean different things.