What's new activity: Think and search like a bat
Directions:Read the text silently. While reading, be guided by the following questions.

guide Questions:
3.how is the bat being described​

From his studies of coptic, champollion knew that the egyptian word for "sun" was pronounced rah. he wrote down the first two letters of that sound, ra. next he put a question mark for the unknown middle hieroglyph. then, at the end, he wrote ss, the sound of the last two hieroglyphs. he studied the combination: ra ? ss. suddenly he remembered a famous pharaoh whose name appeared in ancient greek chronicles and also in the biblical book of exodus: rameses, or ramesses. could this be a hieroglyphic representation of ramesses' name? based on the excerpt, what detail did champollion need to conclude that the hieroglyphics might represent ramesses’s name?

If your job was precarious, would you look for a new one? explain.

When a progressive tense is used in the independent clause, the dependent clause typically uses the tense.