Can any one help me on a Romeo and Juliet project??? plz??

Question

Hi, im doing a project on Romeo and Juliet, but i dont get one thing. im trying 2 "Create a replica of a horn book" but i don't understand what that means or what it is. Can anyone tell me what that is and means??? Thank You So Much!!!!

Answer 1

I normally don't copy things for answers, but this seemed the easiest way to have you see what a hornbook is. Perhaps this is how the actors would study their lines, you could make one, printing one act of the play on it. It could be an interesting project. Good luck.



hornbook
primer of a kind in use from the 15th to the 18th cent. On one side of a sheet of parchment or paper the matter to be learned was written or printed; over the sheet, for its protection, a transparent sheet of horn was placed; and the two were fastened to a thin board, which usually projected to form a handle, perforated so that the hornbook might be attached to a girdle. The matter printed or written included the alphabet in capitals and small letters and other material, varying in different hornbooks, such as numerals and the Lord's Prayer. Sometimes the base and handle were made of metal, stone, or ivory and had letters carved or cast on them.

See A. W. Tuer, History of the Hornbook (2 vol., 1896, repr. 1968).

Answer 2

It first may help you to know what a horn book is, see below. Im not sure how it relates to Romeo & Juliet, unless you are making a hornbook of the story itself.
I guess you could use a wooden paddle or thick cardboard cut to look like it, paper, glue, and a plastic sheet protector or even thin wax paper will probably work for the "horn"
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It may not look like one, but a hornbook is really a book. Paper was pretty expensive once and hornbooks were made so children could learn to read without using a lot of paper. A hornbook was usually a small, wooden paddle with just one sheet of paper glued to it. But because that paper was so expensive, parents and teachers wanted to protect it. So they covered the paper with a very thin piece of cow's horn. The piece of cow's horn was so thin, you could see right through it. That's why these odd books were called "hornbooks."

Answer 3

historically, a horn book was a single page 'book' created with parchment or paper, sometimes, with basic things like the alphabet, the numbers, things like that, used to teach young children in school
but i might be wrong, because i have no idea how that relates to Romeo and Juliet