1a. Where is the city of Pompeii? How much time passed after Pompeii's destruction before the city was rediscovered?
2a. What happened after the volcano's initial explosion? What did the people who stayed in town do to try to survive?
3a. What is unusual about entering Pompeii?
4a. What kinds of street signs existed in Pompeii?
1b. Why do you think it took so long to rediscover the lost city?
2b. Why do you think so many people chose to stay in Pompeii?
3b. Why do you think the Pompeiians developed the gates and roads this way?
4b. Why do you think people put up signs like these?
5a. List the different things archeologists have learned about Pompeii and its destruction.
5b. In what ways is this information important? How can we use information about the way Pompeiians lived? How can we use information about the way the city was destroyed?
6a. What do you think about how the people of Pompeii reacted to the initial explosion, the black cloud, and the falling stones? Why do you think more people didn't run away?
6b. As the poem "Fire and Ice" imagines the end of the world, the people of Pompeii may have envisioned the end of the world as they knew it. How do you envision the end of the world?
Essay. Reread the essay, and identify the introduction, the body, and the conclusion. What is the author's point in writing about Pompeii and Mount Vesuvius?
Chronological Order. What part (or parts) of the essay—introduction, body, or conclusion—uses chronological order? Why is it important to use this organizational pattern in that part of the essay?
1. Imagine you were a reporter in Rome in AD 79. Write a news article about the destruction of Pompeii.
2. Review the examples of messages that appeared on ancient street signs in Pompeii and write five additional street sign messages that might have existed.
3. Write what you think would be a typical shopping list for a family in ancient Pompeii.
Matching. From the choices provided, identify the word or phrase that most closely matches the given term.
1. fertile click to select answer a. desert sands b. farmland
2. shroud click to select answer a. cloth placed over a corpse b. folk costume
3. engulf click to select answer a. rain shower b. tidal wave
4. unruly click to select answer a. choir b. mob
5. vitality click to select answer a. importance b. energy
6. haphazard click to select answer a. branches fallen from a tree b. rows of desks in a classroom
7. catastrophe click to select answer a. sunlight b. earthquake
8. monopoly click to select answer a. retail clothing store b. taxi company with exclusive rights for a city
9. shrewdness click to select answer a. figuring out how to make money in the stock market b. failing an exam
10. imposing click to select answer a. a leprechaun b. the Great Pyramid of Giza
Functions of Sentences. Four different kinds of sentences express four different kinds of complete thoughts: A declarative sentence gives facts. It ends with a period. An interrogative sentence asks a question. It ends with a question mark. An imperative sentence gives orders or makes a request. It ends with a period or exclamation mark. An exclamatory sentence expresses strong feeling. It ends with an exclamation mark.
Read each sentence below and identify its function.
1. Are you coming or not?
2. Take a right at the corner.
3. I have to stay late and study.
4. I love my new car!
5. Where should we meet?
6. Stop!
7. Jenna is leaving in the morning.
8. I ate oatmeal for breakfast.
9. This movie is scary!
10. Sarah will be back in ten minutes.
