1. Do Now Get out: Planner/Agenda & write down homework. Maya Reader
City-State Posters (on back cabinet) You’ll have 10 minutes to finish your posters.

2. Stay and Stray
*One person will stay at the table to teach the next group about your city. The rest of the group will rotate to hear about the other cities. Record what you leaned on your Maya Reader.

3. Maya Writing
Historians didn’t understand the written language until the 1970s!
Codex - accordion folding books containing history of the Mayans. Only four exist today.

4. Maya Writing
Stela – stone monuments from between about wars, kinship, and important royal accomplishments.

5. Read left to right, up and down in a zig-zag pattern.
Wrote using syllables and sounds not just pictures.
Only a few of their books remain, the Spanish burned most of them.

6. Sound Guide a e i o u x ‘ah’ ‘eh’ like effort ‘ee’ like feet
‘oh’ like open
‘oo’ like moon
‘sh’ like bush

7. Common Phrases Bix a belex? (Hi, how are you?) Maloob. (I’m fine)
Yum botic.
(Thank you.)
video of an American man speaking mayan

8. Skip to 12 min for info on language. 24:45 - 29 writing system
Skip to 12 min for info on language. 24: writing system. 39 discovery of phonic symbols. 47 creation story impact of discovery now

10. Check for Understanding
How do you write 28 in Mayan numerals.
How do you write 12 in Mayan?

11. More Mayan Numbers
Let's look at the number twelve as an example. It is made up of two bars, each representing five; and two dots, each representing one. Added up, it amounts to a sum of twelve.

12. Mayan Numbers
The numbers from 20 on are the same symbols but they'd be 20 times what they really represent just add 0 after it.  Using this system you can write up to 399. 20
100

13. Mayan Numbers
Now that you understand, you do 20 times the symbol for 400 to Here's how you would write 1,377 in Mayan numerals.

14. How do you write the number 604 in Mayan?
Mayan Numbers
How do you write the number 604 in Mayan?

15. How do you write the number 604 in Mayan?
Mayan Numbers
How do you write the number 604 in Mayan?