August 2 2011
Decriptive;
We are going to write about a lady that was a writer in Pompeii when the volcano erupted. What do you think she was thinking? Was she scared? Where was her family? What did she see?
Background: Pompeii a volcano erupts called Mount Vesuvius in 79 A.D. the City of Pompeii was buried along with all its people. Life was going along peacefully that day in the city.
It all lasted 19 hours.
Then, there was only a long, deathly silence. Pompeii lay buried for nearly 1,700 years. It wasn't until 1748 that archaeologists began slowly uncovering the ancient city, preserved under 9 feet of volcanic ash and frozen in time by Pliny the Younger's vivid report.
About three-fifths of the city has been liberated from the solidified volcanic ash and pumice that engulfed it. But many questions remained unanswered for a long time.