This document discusses illuminated manuscripts and the dictionary. Illuminated manuscripts date back 1600 years to the Middle Ages and were created by monks, helping to preserve ancient knowledge through calligraphy. The dictionary defines various words such as ornithopter meaning a mechanical bird, herstory viewing history from a female perspective, and defines reading as beaming up into books and a zoo as an eighth grade English class.

1. Illuminated Manuscripts
• Date from the Middle Ages, some 1600 years
ago!
• Kept ancient knowledge alive
• Many created my Monks
• Calligraphy-Fancy writing

5. The Dictionary
• Ornithopter-A big word for mechanical bird
• Herstory-The past, from the female point of
view
• Brain-A muscle that improves with exercise
• Reading-Beaming up into books
• Zoo-An eighth-grade English class
• Zag-What you do before you zig