Vocabulary and Spelling

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Spelling this week!
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Vocabulary this week!
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parchment

• paper

• They wrote their messages on the parchment paper.

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quill

• A feather

• The quill was dipped into the ink to write on the
  parchment paper.

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scribes

• One who copied books

• Scribes, people who copied manuscripts, were
  very important long ago.

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manuscripts

• books

• This manuscript is a compilation of the early
  records of calendar days.

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tinker

• Make small changes

• He tinkered with his creation and came up with a
  different one.

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Background Knowledge

• Breaking into Prints purpose is to share
  information and facts. Thus, its genre is
  expository.

• This is a story of invention and refining of a
  tool we take for granted, a tool that transformed
  reading from a domain of the elite to one open to
  the masses.

• You can read about the famous Johannes Gutenberg
  press in encyclopedias, Whos Who references, on
  the Internet, and so on.

• The story begins around A.D. 742 when books were
  copied by hand and were very expensive. Students
  had to memorize information because they didnt
  have their own books.

• The first book Gutenberg published was the Bible,
  considered to be the most important book of the
  time in Europe.

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Preview and Prepare

• What is the title and the name of the author and
  illustrator?

• Preview the selections pictures, what can you
  gather from them?

• How did the printing press change the way people
  communicate?

• What do you think the authors purpose for
  writing this selection is?

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Gutenbergs printing press
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Page of the Gutenberg Bible
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Movable type and a printed page dated 1403
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Video clips to viewGo to folder titled Video-
3 clips -view in their order3 other clips are
also about scribes and print in the video folder
title medieval.
Mesopotamia The Development of Written Language
Elementary Video Adventures Times Medieval
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