Handwriting Project

For this project, you will research the history of handwriting and demonstrate your handwriting skills as well as a personal style that you could develop. This is a handwriting project, as such, the presentation of this project needs to be HANDWRITTEN using foundation cursive font! This project will not benefit from cut and pastes from the internet, but rather, the time taken to research and neatly write out your discoveries about handwriting. Your project has three parts a research part, an observation part and a design part. The research part of your project should answer each of the questions below: how was knowledge passed from generation to generation, or even community to community, before handwriting arrives about 4000 years ago? what benefits would a society have from a written means of communication? what were Cuneform images used by the Sumerians and how might they have influenced later handwriting? where do Egyptian hieroglyphs fit into the history of handwriting? how did the Romans influence our written alphabet? what has been the impact of various technologies on handwriting clay tablets, papyrus, ink, quills, pencil, biro as well as the advent of printing presses? The observation part of your project needs you to look at a pictorial or graphical way of writing and communicating (such as used by the Aborigines, Sumerians, Egyptians or even Mayans). You need to show the ancient script and write your observations about how the symbols link to sounds, words, ideas or things. (What is most spectacular about the writing, what obvious links are there to things or ideas, how hard would it be to write etc.) Finally, for the design part of your project, create a handwritten alphabet in a style or font that represents you. If may be free flowing and carefree, it may be tightly-controlled and organised, it may have symbols representing letters or ideas. Whatever you choose, make it YOUR style. Check out our classroom resources on 5mnps2013.weebly.com for information links to sites about the history of writing, penmanship, calligraphy and related topics.

Project Due Date: Wednesday, 26th June, 2013.

Handwriting Project Rubric Requirements Use of cursive handwriting

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Project is handwritten mostly in a neat cursive style using correct slope and word spacing. Letters are mostly formed consistent with NSW Foundation font. Project answers most research questions OR answers with minor spelling, punctuation and grammar errors. Answers are written in paragraphs showing good understanding of the topic.

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Project is handwritten but lacks neatness which makes it difficult to read OR Project is written in printed form, rather than cursive.

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Project is not handwritten and shows no examples of student ability to use NSW Foundation font.

Project is handwritten in neat cursive style using correct slope and word spacing. Letters are formed consistent with NSW Foundation font.

Research: History of handwriting research

Project answers all research questions with correct spelling, punctuation and grammar. Answers are written in paragraphs showing good understanding of the topic.

Project answers some research questions OR answers with spelling, punctuation and grammar errors that make it difficult to read OR answers do not show a good understanding of the topic. Observation includes a copy (handwritten or printed) of the script and records comments about some of the symbols and what they represent. The design of a handwritten style is creative, includes upper OR lower case letters only, OR is difficult to read.

Project answers some research questions, however spelling, punctuation and grammar errors make it difficult to read. Answers to not indicate a good understanding of the topic. Observation includes a copy (handwritten or printed) of the script, but records no comments about the symbols and what they represent. The design of a handwritten style includes upper OR lower case letters only, OR is difficult to read.

Observation: Graphical and pictorial observations

Observation includes a copy (handwritten or printed) of the script and records comments about all of the symbols and what they represent.

Observation includes a copy (handwritten or printed) of the script and records comments about most of the symbols and what they represent.

Design: The design of a handwritten The design of a handwritten Personal-style alphabet style is creative, includes upper style is creative, includes most
and lower case letters, numbers upper and lower case letters, and punctuation and is easily numbers and punctuation and readable. is easily readable.

Presentation

Project is presented in a very organised, creative and effective way.

Project is presented in an organised, creative and effective way.

Some parts of the project are presented in an organised, creative or effective way.

Project is not presented in an organised, creative or effective way.

This project is designed to meet the following outcomes:

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WS3.12 produces legible writing WS3.12 writes fluently with appropriate size, slope and spacing of letter formation DM S3.8 Develops and resolves a design task by planning, implementing, managing and evaluating design processes VAS3.1 Investigates subject matter in an attempt to represent likenesses of things in the world
Credit to http://www.ancientscripts.com

for the script images appearing on the first page.