Part 1:

Click HERE to access a reading on language in the Fertile Crescent.

Use the first three pages in the reading to answer the following questions in an app of your choice.

1) What do we call the writing from Ancient Sumer?

2) What material did they write on?

3) What do we call the writers in Ancient Sumer?

4) What tools did they use to write with?

5) What were the things that Sumerians typically wrote about?

Part 2:

Now that you know more about Cuneiform, complete the "Evaluating Evidence" handout (paper copies are on the Red Bookshelf) by identifying which statements are true or false and providing quotes from the reading to support your answers.