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<h1>😀 Writing Then and Now</h1>
<h2>Week 4 • Thursday • From Hieroglyphics to Emojis</h2>
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<h3>📖 Reading Time</h3>
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<p>Did you know that YOU use picture writing too? Every time someone sends an emoji — a smiley face, a heart, a thumbs-up — they are using little pictures to share ideas, just like the ancient Egyptians did with hieroglyphics!</p>
<p>Of course, a lot has changed. Egyptians carved words into stone with chisels or painted them on papyrus with reed brushes. Writing one page could take a very long time. Today we tap letters on keyboards and screens, and our words can zoom across the world in one second.</p>
<p>But writing does the same job now as it did 5,000 years ago: it saves our ideas so others can read them — even people far away, or people born long after us. When you write in this workbook, you are making history too!</p>
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<h3>✏️ Reading Questions</h3>
<p>1. How are emojis like hieroglyphics?</p>
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<p>2. What tools did Egyptians use to write?</p>
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<p>3. What job has writing done for 5,000 years?</p>
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<h3>✏️ Then or Now?</h3>
<p style="font-size:10.5px; color:#555;">Write THEN for ancient Egypt, NOW for today, or BOTH.</p>
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<tr><th>Statement</th><th>THEN, NOW, or BOTH?</th></tr>
<tr><td>Writing with pictures to share ideas</td><td></td></tr>
<tr><td>Carving words into stone walls</td><td></td></tr>
<tr><td>Typing on a keyboard</td><td></td></tr>
<tr><td>Writing on papyrus with a reed brush</td><td></td></tr>
<tr><td>Sending a message across the world in a second</td><td></td></tr>
<tr><td>Saving ideas for people in the future</td><td></td></tr>
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<h3>✏️ True or False</h3>
<p style="font-size:10.5px; color:#555;">Write T for true or F for false in each circle.</p>
<div class="tf-item"><span class="circle-box"></span> Emojis are little pictures that share ideas.</div>
<div class="tf-item"><span class="circle-box"></span> Egyptians typed hieroglyphics on keyboards.</div>
<div class="tf-item"><span class="circle-box"></span> Writing saves ideas so others can read them later.</div>
<div class="tf-item"><span class="circle-box"></span> Egyptians wrote on papyrus with reed brushes.</div>
<div class="tf-item"><span class="circle-box"></span> Writing today can travel across the world in a second.</div>
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<h3>🔍 Write an Emoji Message</h3>
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<p style="margin-bottom:2px;">Write a short message to a family member using ONLY pictures you draw — no letters allowed!</p>
<p style="margin-bottom:2px;">Then show it to them. Can they figure out what you said? That is how tricky reading hieroglyphics was before the Rosetta Stone!</p>
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<h3>🧠 Think About It</h3>
<p>1. Was it easy or hard for your family member to read your picture message? Why?</p>
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<p>2. What message would you carve in stone for kids 1,000 years from now?</p>
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<h3>📊 Review</h3>
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<tr><td>How writing has changed</td><td>YES / NOT YET</td></tr>
<tr><td>How emojis are like hieroglyphics</td><td>YES / NOT YET</td></tr>
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