Saturday, September 5, 2015

The Fourth Great Lesson: The Story of Writing


The Fourth Great Lesson is the Story of Writing, sometimes called Communication in Signs. In this lesson, the story of the development of the written alphabet is told, with an emphasis on the incredible ability that humans have of committing their thoughts to paper. Included in the story are pictographs, symbols, hieroglyphs, early alphabets, and the invention of the printing press. (See photo: ancient Egyptian hieroglyphics)  

This lesson leads to the study of:
  • Reading: literature, poetry, non-fiction, myths and folk tales, authors, reading comprehension, reading analysis, literary terms
  •  Writing: elements of style, function, voice, composition, letter writing, research, study skills
  •  Language: origins of spoken language, foreign languages, history of languages, speech, drama
  • Structure: alphabets, bookmaking, grammar, punctuation, sentence analysis, word study, figures of speech

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