Sequoyah, Man of Many Words

Sequoyah, Man of Many Words — page 1

Sequoyah, Man of Many Words — page 2 — Table of Contents A Big Idea 4 Sequoyah 6 Making a Way to Write 8 A System That Works 10 The First Student 12 Show and Tell 14 Success for Sequoyah 16 Big Dates in Sequoyah's Life 18 The Cherokee Today 20 Words to Know 22 Index 23 3

Sequoyah, Man of Many Words — page 3 — 4 A Big Idea Suppose you make a new friend You can give each other your names and phone numbers You know how to write the letters of your name Years ago Cherokee CHER-o-key people did not have a way to write their language Without an alphabet people cannot read nor write

Sequoyah, Man of Many Words — page 4 — One man changed that His name was Sequoyah se-KOY-uh Sequoyah decided to invent a way to write the Cherokee language 5

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