Writing in Ancient Egypt
The ancient Egyptians believed that it was important to record and communicate information about religion and government.The written language in ancient Egypt was hieroglyphics. Hieroglyphics are hundreds of images put together forming the Egyptian language. This used to be the most famous language. However, there are two other scripts. One of them is called Hieratic. It's formed from hieroglyphics. Pictures were reduced to lines and squiggles to make writing easier and quicker. The other form of writing is Demotic. This version of Egyptian language was based on phonetics. Demotic means "the peoples' writing". It got this name because everyone could read and write it easily.
Pharaoh's names in hieroglyphics
In the Egyptian writing system there are about seven hundred letters. This is very interesting because in our alphabet there are only twenty-six letters, so we thought this was an extremely interesting fact.
In temples pharoahs wrote on the walls with heiroglyphics and drew to show there respect for the dieties since this is the house of the gods. The preists in the temple were scribes and they performed rituals to keep the dieties happy.
The goverment also used heiroglyphics to keep records of the past years like how much grain or how many animals were collected in the past year in taxes. Goverment officials were scribes in higher positions.
In the military people used heiroglyphics to communicate with
each other. Military leaders were first trained as scribes to be able to read messages.
The Egyptians who wrote were called scribes. To learn how to write, the scribes had to go to scribe school. Students in scribe school had many things to learn. It was important for scribes to learn how to record information correctly.Scribes spent hours copying hundreds of signs until they could make them well enough to please their teachers. They wrote on papyrus. Papyrus is old pieces of pottery or flakes of lime stone. Today we use pencils and pens; the Egyptians used reed brushes dipped in ink. Writing was used in scribe school, in the fields, in tombs, in temples, in the army, and in the goverment.
Students and thier teacher in scribe school.
Reed Brushes...They used these to write.
When scribes would write, they would write everything! Although hieroglyphics looked pretty, they took a long time to create on papyrus scrolls. Scribes would then use Demotic system of writing because it took less time to write. Scribes would record information about people, places, and records about everything.
There are a lot of differences between Egyptians way of writing and out way of writing. We use pens and pencils when we write. Egyptians would use reed brushes dipped in ink. We write on paper made from trees and Egyptians would use papyrus scrolls made from reed plants. We write in the english language and Egyptians would write in heiroglyphics.
Vocabulary
Papyrus- a reed plant that grows along the shorses of the nile river and is used to make scrolls.
Hieratic- Egyptian system of writing that came after hireoglyphics.
Demotic- system of writing used later in ancient egypt. It was faster to write down information. It came after
Heiroglyphics- an egyptian system of writing usig 1000s of symbols
Scribes- people who went to school to learn how to write to keep information
script - a group of signs or letters used to make words
offical a scribe the to be an offical your father had to be a scribe and his father and so on
thoth the wisdom god the god of the moon the god who made numbers and writing
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ERIN T ,ELAINE P , MALLORY O ,JULIE S , SARAH S
Comments (Show all 84)
wikiuser0029 said
at 10:23 am on Oct 9, 2008
ms. paduano help!!! i added my info. on the wiki and fixed some typo's and after about 3 min. ou whole page was gone excepy for 1 paragraph!! what do i do???
<3 Sarah <3
wikiuser0005 said
at 10:38 am on Oct 9, 2008
heyy sarah r u still there its emily just saying tht thts wat happened to our page too but we fixed it nd yours looks great now!!
wikiuser0010 said
at 2:23 pm on Oct 9, 2008
cool page
-taylor
wikiuser0021 said
at 2:39 pm on Oct 9, 2008
thanks taylor
*mallory*
wikiuser0010 said
at 2:52 pm on Oct 9, 2008
Sarah If that ever happens again,
go to page history and revent your page from a certain time. That's how I got mine back
-Taylor
wikiuser0010 said
at 2:54 pm on Oct 9, 2008
Oh, no ofense, We cannot see the yellow paragraphs. You should change it to a different color. Like a red blue or a purple. Defintley not YELLOW! -ART TEAm
wikiuser0021 said
at 2:55 pm on Oct 9, 2008
guys in my group leave it one color for a whileit looks so nice!!!!!!!!!!!
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~mallory ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
and mis p i wantr to post a you tube vido how do i paste it ???????????????
Mrs. Olsen said
at 9:35 pm on Oct 9, 2008
Hi Writing Team!
Be sure to include citations for all of your sources.
Mrs. Olsen
wikiuser0021 said
at 12:49 pm on Oct 11, 2008
ok i got the you tube vido we got pitures we have to put were we got our info and a few more voc. words ,were doing good .
ps.............how do you guys like the mint green color??????????
~mallory~
wikiuser0024 said
at 4:24 pm on Oct 11, 2008
Great job it looks nice.
*Anjelica*
wikiuser0036 said
at 9:52 pm on Oct 11, 2008
your page i awesome! y is there a scroll bar if you only use it to see the tiny part with your names? lol(; see ya tuesday!
-rebeccaaaaaaaa<3 (=
Mrs. Gallagher said
at 5:03 pm on Oct 12, 2008
How is the Writing team different to the six characteristics of civilization?
Mrs. Gallagher
wikiuser0011 said
at 7:51 pm on Oct 12, 2008
cool
Miss Paduano said
at 5:47 pm on Oct 13, 2008
Yes, vocabulary words you came across in your research on writing.
Miss Paduano
wikiuser0024 said
at 6:52 pm on Oct 13, 2008
Love the video :-)
*Anjelica*
wikiuser0025 said
at 8:54 am on Oct 14, 2008
heyy mrs. gallagher we dont understand what you mean when you asked the question...........comment back...
~elaine~
wikiuser0011 said
at 5:26 pm on Oct 14, 2008
hello again,
i like the green, i also like your video!
taylor
wikiuser0027 said
at 7:22 pm on Oct 14, 2008
hey, nice job.......... who page is this?
wikiuser0027 said
at 7:22 pm on Oct 14, 2008
christi
wikiuser0027 said
at 7:22 pm on Oct 14, 2008
and like totally that shade of green is the new pink! Like duh............
wikiuser0029 said
at 7:40 pm on Oct 14, 2008
heyy luv the page!!
wikiuser0029 said
at 7:40 pm on Oct 14, 2008
its sarah!!
wikiuser0021 said
at 9:38 pm on Oct 14, 2008
IF YOU READ MY WIKI YOU SEE A PART THAT I THOUGHT WAS A COOL FACT EVERY DAY I WILL TRY TO PUT A NEW COOL FACT BUT THE POEM THAT CALI WROTE YOU KNOW WHO CALI IS IF YOU READ THE COOL FACT BUT IT WONT LET ME PASTE THE PO EM HELP PLEASE !!!!!!!!!!!!!!
~MALLORY~
Mrs. Gallagher said
at 1:52 pm on Oct 15, 2008
Hi, Writing Team,
I'm sorry, but I misunderstood what your task was when I wrote my question. You are researching the Egyptian's writing system. I really like the cartouches that you have for the pharoahs' names. Keep up your good work. I'm really enjoying this wiki project. Mrs. Gallagher
Jo Rossicone said
at 1:56 pm on Oct 15, 2008
I love seeing the work you do. I would like to see your names posted after a comment. Try it. Mrs. Rossicone
wikiuser0021 said
at 7:45 pm on Oct 15, 2008
I'M VERY GLAD YOU ARE ENJOYING OUR PROJECT MISS.GALLAGHER ,AND WE WILL DO WHAT YOU SAID MISS .ROSSICONE .
~MALLORY~
wikiuser0025 said
at 4:13 pm on Oct 16, 2008
Heyy mallory you should add 4 more vocabulary words since your the vocabulary person!!! well ill c u in school malpalll
~elaine~
wikiuser0029 said
at 4:56 pm on Oct 16, 2008
heyy i love the colors whoever did them our page looks great!
~Sarah~
wikiuser0009 said
at 6:19 pm on Oct 16, 2008
My team is finally working elaine Muke has not did anything yet, Griffin peace out
wikiuser0009 said
at 6:20 pm on Oct 16, 2008
i mean mike
Mrs. Gallagher said
at 7:37 pm on Oct 16, 2008
Thanks Mallory!
Mrs. Gallagher
wikiuser0030 said
at 4:38 pm on Oct 17, 2008
mrs. paduano our sub didnt give us an outline is the test going to be on mon or tues for ss
wikiuser0024 said
at 9:06 am on Oct 18, 2008
Good job writing group!!!!!!
*Anjelica*
wikiuser0030 said
at 12:18 pm on Oct 18, 2008
thanks anjelica
=* julie =*
wikiuser0025 said
at 11:21 pm on Oct 18, 2008
Heyy guyzz its elaine dont change the colors if we have more info u can put that on in what ever color u want but the pagee looks good c u in skool!\
~;)elaine(;~
wikiuser0021 said
at 12:39 pm on Oct 19, 2008
what r u people studing 4 the test
wikiuser0021 said
at 9:41 pm on Oct 19, 2008
were done !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! :)
good job !!!!!!!!
wikiuser0030 said
at 5:18 pm on Oct 20, 2008
we did great guys
julie
wikiuser0012 said
at 8:49 pm on Oct 20, 2008
great job!!!!
~Nicole~
wikiuser0021 said
at 10:04 pm on Oct 20, 2008
i know the project was due today i keep saving 8 voc. words but it only comes to be 6 .helppppppppppppppppppp!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
~MALLORY ~
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