Daily Life-Writing and Education

What did scribes do?

 

  • Scribes helped keep track at granaries
  • Scribes also kept track of military tracking of what happened.
  • Scribes wrote about the things what the pharaoh didWhat was school like?
  • Scribes took ten years of hard work to become scribes.
  • The teachers were harsh to students if they didn’t want to learn
  • An average day was rewriting hieroglyphics over and over How did Scribes learn the writing system?
  • For the first years of school they used clay tablets to write
  • The last six years scribes used papyrus to write on (our paper)
  • Scribes also learned a simple version of hieroglyphics for everyday things like record keeping
  • What was a Scribe’s social position?
  • Scribes were among the wealthier people in the social structure
  • Scribes had lots of the advantages but they didn’t have much power
  • Scribes were very respected by other people in ancient Egypt

Seedfolks Favorite Character

Paragraph: After completing your pre-writing then write your paragraph below: my favorite character is Leona because she is determined to get things done. She also is trying to make the neighborhood a better place. Her determination got the government to clean the lot up and make it easier to plant plants and made it not smell as bad. When she noticed that people were planting in the garden she wanted to plant her own. But there was to much trash and she had patience and determination and cunning made her able to get the government to clean up the lot.

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