Last week we read about the destruction of Pompeii and Herculaneum when Mount Vesuvius erupted. You summarised the information in that article, and then you also took notes when I read you Pliny's first hand account of his uncle's death.
This week's homework is to write a vivid and detailed account of the destruction of Pompeii, writing in the first person ("I saw", not "he saw") and in the past tense. Imagine you were one of the people in the city of Pompeii and you managed to escape, and you are writing a letter to a friend telling them about your terrible experience.
Remember to include good punctuation and to check your grammar and spellings, and be sure to include lots of sensory details - what you SAW, HEARD, SMELLED, FELT (physically and emotionally) and even how things TASTED.
