Just Like Romeo and Juliet... Activity 6

Printing fonts and handwriting techniques have changed greatly in 400 years. Please read the following:

"The Office of Christian Parents: The Ordering of Sonnes from Fourteene Yeare Old and Upward"

On your blog, type your observations as to the visual style - letters, punctuation, spelling - of this document from 1616 from one that is contemporary.

We will discuss this together in class.

If you finish early, please read Romeo and Juliet ACT 3, 1

Then get in a group of 3-4 people around you.

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Observation:

The spelling for that time of English is different, due to the style that some letters are written.
The letter "S" is written like a lower case f but with no center horizontal line. The letter "U" and "V" are like reverse; Where "u" is written like "v" and "V" is written like a "U". Some of their words that are still used today, ends with an "e" (example: drunk is spelled drunke) , or other letters like "th" (in the word take). They don't use "" marks to state another persons words or readings. But instead, they italicize the words inside of the paragraphs. They also italicize for names too.

In their sentence, they would use the word "alas". Their paragraphs are really long, and don't break down on different subjects. They use the symbol ":" like we used ";". Their subject changes, but connects to the previous one. They only break into different paragraphs when the subject is really different. But their main topic still continues throughout the writing. They easily move from topics like men, to parents, to Christian, and children.