What is this excerpt mostly about? Read the excerpt from The Ancient City.
There were no desks. Vase paintings show boys sitting
on stools holding wood-backed wax writing tablets. They
wrote on the wax with a stylus, a sort of bone or metal
pencil pointed at one end and flattened out in a leaf
shape at the other. Many of these have been found. The
flattened end was used for smoothing out the wax to
make corrections. Occasionally they were allowed to
write properly, with a reed pen and ink on papyrus. All
books were written on papyrus, and rolled up in scrolls
rather than bound in pages.
o what the classrooms looked like
what the books were made of
O what tools students used to write
O what materials were used as pencils