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    This document provides instructions for a classroom activity where students will practice translating, writing, and creating their own versions of Sumerian cuneiform. The activity is divided into three parts: 1) Translating passages of ancient Sumerian cuneiform, 2) Writing original messages in Sumerian cuneiform using the provided alphabet, and 3) Creating a personal pictograph system and using it to describe a vacation memory. Students are to complete translation and writing exercises using the cuneiform alphabet, and illustrate their own pictographs in color for the third part.

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    This document provides instructions for a classroom activity where students will practice translating, writing, and creating their own versions of Sumerian cuneiform. The activity is divided into three parts: 1) Translating passages of ancient Sumerian cuneiform, 2) Writing original messages in Sumerian cuneiform using the provided alphabet, and 3) Creating a personal pictograph system and using it to describe a vacation memory. Students are to complete translation and writing exercises using the cuneiform alphabet, and illustrate their own pictographs in color for the third part.

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    This document provides instructions for a classroom activity where students will practice translating, writing, and creating their own versions of Sumerian cuneiform. The activity is divided into three parts: 1) Translating passages of ancient Sumerian cuneiform, 2) Writing original messages in Sumerian cuneiform using the provided alphabet, and 3) Creating a personal pictograph system and using it to describe a vacation memory. Students are to complete translation and writing exercises using the cuneiform alphabet, and illustrate their own pictographs in color for the third part.

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    This document provides instructions for a classroom activity where students will practice translating, writing, and creating their own versions of Sumerian cuneiform. The activity is divided into three parts: 1) Translating passages of ancient Sumerian cuneiform, 2) Writing original messages in Sumerian cuneiform using the provided alphabet, and 3) Creating a personal pictograph system and using it to describe a vacation memory. Students are to complete translation and writing exercises using the cuneiform alphabet, and illustrate their own pictographs in color for the third part.

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    of 3

    Name: __________________________

    _______ / 20 Date: ______________

    Period: ______

    Write Like a Sumerian!


    Cuneiform Activity
    Directions: Cuneiform is noted as the first writing system ever recorded. The first cuneiform writings were
    pictographs—symbols that represented an entire word. Eventually, the Sumerians added abstract symbols or
    signs to represent specific letters, numbers, and parts of a word.

    In this activity, you will translate Sumerian cuneiform writing, write a message in Sumerian language,
    and then make up your OWN version of cuneiform to write a “coded message.”

    Use the cuneiform alphabet and number system on this page. Activities are on the next pages.

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    Part 1 – Cuneiform Translation (6 points)
    Your job is to translate this ancient language to discover some ideas about ancient Mesopotamia. Good luck!

    1.

    _________________________________________________

    2.

    _____________________________________________________________

    3.

    ___________________________________________________

    4.

    ___________________________________________________

    5.

    ___________________________________________________

    6.

    ____________________________________________________

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    Part 2 – Write Like a Sumerian! (6 points)
    Now, your job is to write your own message using ancient Sumerian cuneiform. Answer the questions below
    using JUST Sumerian cuneiform symbols.

    1. What is your favorite subject in school?

    2. What is your favorite color?

    3. What is your favorite food?

    Part 3 – Create Your Own pictograph System


    (6 points)
    Before cuneiform was invented, the only system of writing was pictographs—picture symbols that represented
    words. Think of our modern-day emojis as a version of pictographs. Create your OWN PICTOGRAPH
    SYSTEM to answer the question below. You must include at least 5 different pictograph symbols. USE
    COLOR TO ILLUSTRATE YOUR DRAWINGS! Write your translated answer upside-down in the box at
    the bottom of the page.
    Use your own pictograph system to answer the question:
    “What is a memory from one of your favorite vacations?”

    Write your translated answer U


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