2. Spelling this week!

3. Suffix Suffix -ly

4. secretly

5. badly

6. barely

7. certainly

8. suddenly

9. kindly

10. lately

11. loyally

12. gladly

13. loudly

14. quietly

15. proudly

16. likely

17. finally

18. deeply

19. closely

20. boldly

21. rarely

22. costly

23. quickly

24. Vocabulary this week!

26. parchment They wrote their messages on the parchment paper.  paper

28. quill The quill was dipped into the ink to write on the parchment paper.  A feather

30. scribes Scribes, people who copied manuscripts, were very important long ago.  One who copied books

32. manuscripts This manuscript is a compilation of the early records of calendar days.  books

34. tinker He tinkered with his creation and came up with a different one.  Make small changes

35. Background Knowledge Breaking into Print’s Breaking into Print’s purpose is to share information and facts. Thus, it’s 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, Who’s 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 didn’t have their own books. The first book Gutenberg published was the Bible, considered to be the most important book of the time in Europe.

36. Preview and Prepare What is the title and the name of the author and illustrator? Preview the selection’s pictures, what can you gather from them? How did the printing press change the way people communicate? What do you think the author’s purpose for writing this selection is?

37. Gutenberg’s printing press

38. Page of the Gutenberg Bible

39. Movable type and a printed page dated 1403

40. Video clips to view Go to folder titled Video - 3 clips -view in their order 3 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