The History Puzzle: How We Know What We Know About the Past. By Susan Provost Beller. 901 BEL.
Publisher: Twenty-First Century Books, p2006, c2006
This book includes a collection of 19 stories that attempt to piece together events in history when not all the information is available, and includes stories of the Edmund Fitzgerald, Martin's Hundred, the Great Wall, Herculaneum and Pompeii, and Custer's Last Stand.
--follett.com
This is one of the resources used in a collaborated lesson between Mrs. South and Mrs. Vinson for her sixth grade language arts classes. Students, refer to Chapter 12: Buried History -- The story of Herculaneum and Pompeii.
Students in third block/sixth grade, post one fact on Pompeii and turn in your notes to Mrs. Vinson. Remember to include where you got your information and also your name (first name/last initial).
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Type facts about Pompeii here...
--Mrs. South
Students can create your blog at home.
THis is a test for third block. :-)
Mrs. South and Mrs. Vinson
When the volcano errupted some died of ashes getting in people`s bodies and thier insides. dicovery channel videos
Khila B.
Tunnels were dug, and soon the ruling noblilty of naples began to loot the theater.
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Luke young
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Pompeii had running water,fast food booths and some some had swimming pools!
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The bones that the Geologists
uncovered were filled with ash
from the volcano Vesuvius.
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Tanna B.
Many people were frozen in the position that they died in. The dangerous gases got in their systems clogging their lungs so they died in that position
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The eruption of Mt.Vesuvius in 1631 destroyd 5 towns and caused over 3000 peple Encarta premium Stephen.S
Mount Vesuvius buried Pompeii under as much as 40 feet of ash.
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Vesuvius erupted unexpectedly on 79 A.D. Gallelao Ethan : )
Vesuvius is still a danger it has erupted 30 times in the last 2,000 years.This was found in the discovery channel video Cali harrod :)
Many wealthy Romans invested in land. Many people did not survie.Vesuvius eurpted in 79 A.D.
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Emily Crockett
Before Vesuvius erupted Pompeii was a beautiful city.
Galleio Ethan : )
Vesuvius was known as the giant of Pompeii. Galelio
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When Mount Vesuvius exploded in the summer of A.D. 79 it sent a column of ash more than 12 miles in the air.
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Lauren Talley :)
In AD 79,the ancient volcano Vesuvius erupted and rained hot ash,stones,and ciders.
Jordan T.
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In AD 79,the ancient volcano Vesuvius erupted and rained hot ash,stones,and ciders.
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I used fast facts.com to get this information.Mount Vesuvius has errupted more than 50 times since 79A.D. which buried popeii and its sister city,herculeum
by adam Morgan
Children were found holding their faces with their hands and a dog was found pulling from his chain trying to get away from the lava that had exploded from the volcano.
Emily Hansen
so many bodies have been made that some are simpley stacked on shelves in an open area near the Forum of Pompetii.
the force of the explosion of vesuvius was so big it also coused a mudslide that knocked out the nearby city of herculunium. I found that at Sirrs Discovery.
Matt white
Children were found holding their faces with their hands and a dog was found pulling from his chain trying to get away from the lava that had exploded from the volcano.
I got this fact from History puzzle and Bodies from the Ash
Emily Hansen
Some of the grousome discoveries are used in museums. (:
Although many eruptions have occured since then Vesuvius hasn't exploded with such force since that devastating day ,the major erruption occured in 1,919 wwwdiscover.com austin mooney
Over 15 centuries Pompeii lay in
ash and was nearly forgotten.
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morganl
They were not only coverd with the smoke, but many of the smoke went inside of their brains, slowly killing them. (:
It last erupted in 1944. Encarter.com Lacie hallmark
Vesuvius is still a danger it has erupted 30 times in the last 2000 years.This factb I found on Discovery Channel Video.
Cali Harrod :)
Whitney Emory:
~The fact that many of the bodies are covering their mouths shows that these people were unable to breathe becuas they where covered with ash.
~Thosands of people was killed in a few minutes
~The people were in 40 FEET OF ASH.
~Some people died indooors when duilding in which they had taken shetter collapsed as the falling ash.
~About the city of Pompeii just befor the Volcano Veuvis covered it with fiery rocks.
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