Mon., 8/19

Do Now—Exercise 5C:

In four or more complete sentences address one or more of the following prompts:

•Why did people start writing?

•How did pictograms develop?

•Compare and contrast a mark and a seal. In ancient Sumer, how did a seal protect one’s property?

•Describe the transition from pictograms to a phonetic system.

•Review p. 44, ¶ 8 – p. 45, ¶ 2. How is this speech?

Read p. 46 ¶ 2 – p. 50.

Skip “We find Greek-speaking Egyptians… the slaughter will provide it for food” in ¶ 1 at the top of p. 48.

Exercise 5D:

Copy the following verbatim:

Thoth – Thoth is the Egyptian god of writing, wisdom, and magic who measured natural phenomena and recorded human activity.

Rosetta Stone – The Rosetta Stone is a slab of stone with the same inscription written in hieroglyphs, in a later Egyptian script, and also in Greek. The three-way translation gave linguists the key they needed to break the code of Egyptian hieroglyphics.