🌎Activity #9: The Deseret Alphabet

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OBJECTIVE

I will learn how to write a few words using the Deseret Alphabet create by Brigham Young for the children who lived in early Utah.

 

SSConcepts2.png ASSIGNMENT

"If you went to school in Utah in the 1860's and 1870's, you may have studied the DESERET ALPHABET.  It was developed to teach the Latter-Day Saints (Mormons) a phonetic or sound alphabet.  It especially helped foreign-speaking converts to read English more easily.  The alphabet had a symbol for each sound.  There were 38 symbols.  It cost so much to print books in the new alphabet that Utahans soon stopped using it."

Your assignment today will be to try using the DESERET ALPHABET by decoding some words and phrases and writing some words and phrases.  Have fun!

gear.pngGUIDELINES

1.  Look at the documents provided by your teacher.  Download Deseret Alphabet Kids.pdf

2.  Using the Deseret Alphabet, work through the word puzzles. 

3.  Submit the task using the instructions provided to you by your teacher.  

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