1G21 – Sharing Ideas and News Changes

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Class Summary

Students should leave the class understanding how the invention of the printing press changed the way people shared information.

Lesson Slide

1G21 – Sharing Ideas and News Changes

Main Teaching Points

  • Explain: The way that people share ideas and news is called communication. People used to share their ideas by writing books. They wrote the books by hand. Writing the pages of just one book would take weeks. If they wanted to give a copy of a book to a friend, it took many weeks to make a copy of the book.
  • Explain: It takes so much work to make copies of books by hand that it used to be a job.
    A copyist is a person who has the job where they make copies of a book. The bible writer Ezra was a copyist.
  • Explain: Eventually, someone made an invention called the printing press in the 1400s.
    The printing press made it easier to make copies of books. And it was much faster than making copies by hand.
    This changed the way people communicated and it made sharing news and ideas easier.
    The invention of the press also made it easier to share the most important news, the good news found in the bible.

Discussion Questions

  • What is communication?
  • What is a copyist?
  • When was the printing press invented?

In-Class Activities

  • Use Vocabulary Cards: Use vocabulary cards to discuss how sharing news and ideas changed.
    • communication – the way that people share ideas and news
    • copyist – a person who makes copies of a book