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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

Scribes- people who went to school to learn how to write to keep information

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 (84)

can we find some informaton about writing in our textbook?

Yes. The textbook is a credible source, but you may want to venture out to some of the websites we listed for you in the resources page as well. Happy hunting!

can eeryone on the team answer the questions or just certain people?

Hi Guys,

I would just use the questions as a guide--just something to think about as you create your page. For example, rather than saying yes, there was a written language in Ancient Egypt, your team could post information about the written language. You would all work together to do this. While all of you will work together to create the answer, you each have your assigned 'jobs'. You all need to know the information in order to do your jobs. For example, before the illustrator can find appropriate pictures she would need to know all about writing in Egypt so she would know what type of pictures to look for.

I'm not sure if this cleared anything up for you. We'll talk more about it in class.

Mrs. Olsen

thank you it did clear my question up very well

Good Luck Guys!

i have another question can we answer the questions from home if we want or do we have to do it in school as a group

You may answer the questions at home, alone or in school with your group. You basically may work on your project whenever you have the time, wherever you are! That's part of what's so great about it! Just remember, everyone must do their part. Good luck!

Miss Paduano

ok thanks mrs.paduano

One more thing... you may edit the space to remove the questions Mrs. Olsen and I are asking you to answer, as long as you add the information you researched.

For example, you should remove "Was there a written language in Ancient Egypt? Yes, there was."

You are posting all of the information you find and using those questions as a guide. They should not be a part of the page once information answering the question can replace it.

Just a suggestion... =)

mrs.paduano what was the name of british sight

hi guys its Nicole i was just wishing you good luck and i cant wait to see your project finished !!! so far it looks good ..... lol see you in school

good luck

yomatoes

good luck

cheese.

whenyou say good luck and stuff thanks but can you write your name so i know how it is

whenyou say good luck and stuff thanks but can you write your name so i know who it

how many pics are we allowed to put??

Heyy guys its elaine and i just changed the color of the names just to make it look nicer so u can change the colors if u want ok c u in skool tomorrow...................

~laney~

Ms. Paduano its elaine, i just wanted to know the name of the british web site

~laney~<33..............tanxx

hey guys its quirk luv da pageeeeeeeeee !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Here is the address of the site:

http://www.ancientegypt.co.uk/menu.html

Site is looking good Writing Team!

yea elaine we cant do stuf so we cant get pics or anything

heyy ms. padauano its sarah can we use as many pics as we want????

great job! wow, you guys wrote a lot of stuff!
Taylor

thanx

thanks taylor

hi mrs.paduano i wanted to no why my computer wont let me add images eventhough its not my job i was trying to so i can put it with the stuff i wrote i just wanted to know how to add them ok bye

tanxx 4 the website ms.paduano!!!!!!!!!!!!

~laney~

sarah its elaine did u edit the wiki page cuz if u did it looks AWESOME!!!!!!!!!!!!!1 wer doin great!!!!!!!!!!!

~laney~

mrs.paduano mallory wanted me to tell you she cant get onthe website

heyy guys great job i love it
emilyyy =))

thanks emily good info on yours

Heyyy Miss Paduano I just wanted to know sice we are the writing group we have to put vocabulary words about writing...................right??????

tanxx....xoxoxoxoxo

~laney~

Hey its Anjelica just wanted to say good luck and your doing a great job on this project.

mrs.paduano i just wanted to say mallory got on now and can always get on

who is editing this mallory

miss p. i need to get on the wiki but erin forgot to sing off and i dont want to steal the lock because it will loose all its info she will not be back till 8 o clock !!!!!!!!!do i steal the lock ??????????????????????????? please write back as soon as possible

yeaaaaaaaaaa malpal it looks great!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! we r doin awesome

~~~xoxolaneyxoxo~~~

hey guys its nicole great start see you in school ... byee

In that case it's okay to steal the lock! Have her make sure her info has been saved. You may all add as many pictures as you want. Three pictures is the minimum. The page looks great!

Miss Paduano

sarah got maore info and when she saved it only one paragraph saved and on picture

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

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!!

cool page
-taylor

thanks taylor
*mallory*

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

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

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 ???????????????

Hi Writing Team!

Be sure to include citations for all of your sources.

Mrs. Olsen

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~

Great job it looks nice.
*Anjelica*

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 (=

How is the Writing team different to the six characteristics of civilization?
Mrs. Gallagher

cool

Yes, vocabulary words you came across in your research on writing.

Miss Paduano

Love the video :-)
*Anjelica*

heyy mrs. gallagher we dont understand what you mean when you asked the question...........comment back...
~elaine~

hello again,
i like the green, i also like your video!
taylor

hey, nice job.......... who page is this?

christi

and like totally that shade of green is the new pink! Like duh............

heyy luv the page!!

its sarah!!

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~

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

I love seeing the work you do. I would like to see your names posted after a comment. Try it. Mrs. Rossicone

I'M VERY GLAD YOU ARE ENJOYING OUR PROJECT MISS.GALLAGHER ,AND WE WILL DO WHAT YOU SAID MISS .ROSSICONE .
~MALLORY~

Heyy mallory you should add 4 more vocabulary words since your the vocabulary person!!! well ill c u in school malpalll

~elaine~

heyy i love the colors whoever did them our page looks great!

~Sarah~

My team is finally working elaine Muke has not did anything yet, Griffin peace out

i mean mike

Thanks Mallory!
Mrs. Gallagher

mrs. paduano our sub didnt give us an outline is the test going to be on mon or tues for ss

Good job writing group!!!!!!
*Anjelica*

thanks anjelica

=* julie =*

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(;~

what r u people studing 4 the test

were done !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! :)
good job !!!!!!!!

we did great guys

julie

great job!!!!
~Nicole~

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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