Italic Script In Colonial America

Through the years, many historical documents are written in cursive writing. For example, the Declaration of Independence is written in cursive. Also, some of your relatives could have written you letters from places. K-5 learning blog states,” if they cannot write cursive, they cannot read cursive writing and would not be able to read historical documents, such as the Declaration of Independence” (1).

People are going to need to know how to read cursive in some famous documents. If it is not going to get taught then some of those documents are not going to to able to be read. Cursive has been around for centuries. Christopher Columbus wrote his adventures in the Americas in cursive handwriting. Thomas Jefferson penned one of our utmost famous documents “The Declaration of Independence” in cursive. People are going to need to

Analyzes the documents by grouping them in as many appropriate ways as possible. Does not simply summarize the documents individually.

•Analyzes the documents by grouping them in as many appropriate ways as possible. Does not simply summarize the documents

Analyse how verbal and visual features of a text you have studied are used to give audiences a strong idea.

Searching for evidence to explain the genesis of that distinctively American cultural identity that led to the events of the American Revolution, historians use the benefits of hindsight, to analyze and understand a phenomenon without which the American Revolution would have arguably never happened. Searching for evidence to explain the genesis of that distinctively American cultural identity that led to the events of the American Revolution, historians use the benefits of hindsight, to analyze and understand a phenomenon without which the American Revolution would have arguably never happened. While British North Americans colonists saw themselves in regional roles, such as Virginians, Carolinians or New Yorkers rather than Americans, late

What competencies were you able to develop in researching and writing the Comprehensive Project that is due in Unit 5?

As many know and believe cursive writing evolved from the calligraphic hand! Cursive has gone back many generations. Cursive is believed to be the fastest way to write. It also is needed in many different ways, such as writing essays and signing your signature on contracts. Not only is the constitution in cursive, but many things are in cursive, but if you don’t know how to write or read cursive you might be a little confused. All schools should teach cursive it’s a really important skill in life.

The article’s, “Is It Time for Cursive to Die?”, written by Lauren Tarshis, and “Why I Keep My Letters”, written by Nina Sankovitch, both agree with different sides when it comes to us humans keeping cursive or not. Despite both articles giving good evidence to support their claim, I have come to the conclusion that the form of writing cursive should be preserved, not forgotten. One reason they cursive should not be forgotten is because of the history that comes from it. For instance, the article states, “Thomas Jefferson penned one of our country’s most famous documents, the Declaration of Independence, in glorious cursive” (Tarshis 19). This piece of evidence shows how some of the most important events in history used cursive, showing how

where all pertinent information is extracted and created into a rough outline. I then analyze the

Brian Palmer focuses on the history of cursive. Such as the Egyptian hieroglyphics, it was a script but it was a total mess and so time-consuming they finally switched to the Rosetta

Scientific studies show that writing in cursive “promotes hand-eye coordination, visual, fine motor and memory skills” (Cooper). People do not want cursive in school because paper and pencil cursive writing is done in school only and is useless outside of school. On the other hand, people believe cursive writing should be in school because it allows children to read historical documents like the Declaration of Independence. Cursive writing should be taught in school.

Attention to detail because there will be a lot of reports to write and one has to be very detailed.

The writing system that I chose to write about for this assignment is Cherokee, which is the most southern branch of the Iroquoian language family (Warren, n.d.). Though, we do not know exactly when Cherokee developed, linguistics believe it was sometime between 1804-1821. Prior to this Cherokee was a spoken language only, However, in 1821 is when the Cherokee system was first shown to the leaders of the Cherokee nation and was acknowledged as a useful Cherokee script (Cushman, 2012). It did not take long for the system to spread, by 1830, 90% of Cherokees were able to understand books, religious texts, newspapers and almanacs in their own language (Ridgon, 2017). The Cherokee writing system is a syllabary consisting of standardized spelling, shape classifiers, limited consonants and limited pronouns. Even though Cherokee may sound complex, almost every word can be spelled the way that it is pronounced.

Considered one of the most influential typographers in history, John Baskerville made a significant mark on the world of print and type founding. Although considered a failure at printing during his lifetime he produced