Phoenician alphabet

women show that the Minoans were a female dominate culture. Overall, the elaborate palace of Knossos causes historians to think that the people of Minoan civilization were happy and prosperous. 2. The Phoenician Alphabet- Around 950-750 BC the greeks adopted the Phoenician alphabet. This alphabet was different from all other ones because it used one letter to represent one sound instead of one letter to represent one syllable like in Linear A and B. This makes the language much easier to…

Friday, November 4, 2016, from 9:00A.M. – 11:00A.M. I was granted the opportunity to observe “Rosemary’s Daycare and Learning Center.” Rosemary’s Daycare and Learning Center is located on 109 Windsor Street in Belzoni, MS under the director of Ms. Rosemary Williams. Ms. Williams founded her daycare and learning center in 2006 and she now holds a capacity of 38 children. Rosemary’s’ Daycare and Leaning Center is large-sized building well enough for 38 students, Ms. Williams, and her staff. This…

Phonics is the method of teaching a person to read by putting sounds with letters or a group of sounds from the alphabet together. Phonics has many strategies to help students with literacy in the classroom. The following three phonics strategies will form the foundation that students need to read and communicate properly. Those strategies are letter blending, word sort, and alphabet matching. Letter Blending Letter blending is the skill combining sounds together to form words. In the…

Ancient Greece; a land of wonders. In this presentation, I will explain the social, political, religious, intellectual, technological, and economical aspects of Ancient Greece. You will learn how the Greeks lived, and what the Greeks did. Learn some of the inventions, philosophers, writers, and historians from Ancient Greece. There is also information about Greek social structure, government, wars, and trade. There is so much to learn about Greece! There were different…

The history of Greek Colonization is a long story that traces its roots back as early as 1050 BCE where the first Greeks began to colonize Asia Minor and in the span of 500 years the Greeks will have spread themselves from Levant to Iberia and Crimea to Naucratis respectively. This colonization process would play a hand in many of the Greek conflicts both domestically and abroad as well has having a profound effect on the cultural and civil trajectories of the mother cities of Hellas. The…

Lesson Elements Observations/Notes Learning Objective • Group 1 o When given a list of 26 upper-case and 28 lower-case letters, the student will be able to identify at least 85% of the letter names correctly. o When the student is shown 25 sight word flashcards, the student will be able to identify at least 80% of the words correctly. • Group 2 o When given a list of 26 upper-case and 28 lower-case letters, the student will be able to identify at least 90% of the letter names correctly. o When…

In the selected article from his book “The Shallows: What the Internet Is Doing to Our Brains”, Nicholas G. Carr explains to his readers how reading & writing came to be, it 's effects on the brain, and what both Plato and Socrates thought about the subjects (Carr, The Shallows: What the Internet Is Doing to Our Brains). According to Carr, writing began in the year 8000 BC, when people would use small clay tokens that were engraved with symbols as a way to keep track of livestock and goods…

that his expertise is on heritage and biodiversity, though he has written various travel books about Jordan, Israel, France, Portugal, and Peru among other destinations.The selection we read for class today is an excerpt from his book “The Animated Alphabet”, published in 1997. Demeude begins the chapter with a history of alphabetic writing and then of decorated letters, more specifically, the decorated initial. He deals with the picture/writing dichotomy(?) Elkins writes about by quoting…

Explain how the Greek Underworld helped to shape and dictate the behaviours of the Greeks. The Underworld played an important role in the lives of the Ancient Greeks and was a constant influence on their behaviours. The Underworld was the centre of Ancient Greek beliefs concerning the afterlife, and was thought to be ruled by the god, Hades and his wife, Persephone. The belief of the Ancient Greeks was that when someone died their psyche, the Greek word for soul, left their body and was…

The ancient Western world was a world filled with awe and wonder. Never once was there ever a sense of doing something solely for the sake of doing it. During this time, anything that was done was done to the pleasure (or displeasure) of the gods. The gods were treated with the utmost respect in the ancient world. These ancient civilizations are so interesting to us because they are so different us. The way the members of the ancient West lived out their daily lives was quite different to how we…