After we put the excerpts into our own words, we analyzed them and highlighted the big words that are hard to understand and put them into easier words that still mean the same thing. Then we had to put it together so that a 3rd grader would understand it. After we printed it, we were given the task to start handwriting it. The requirements are that it be in black ink and be written in cursive. Then we have to crumple it a few times and then drench it in coffee to make it look authentic. He is making us write in cursive so that we do not lose that art. Since we live in The Digital Age we have to practice so that we can still read the original documents, for they were written in cursive.