Journal Requirement

You need to have at least 4 journal entries : two or more before August 24, 79; one the day of the eruption on August 24, and a last entry some days after the eruption (this can either be written by you if you survived, or by a friend or family member who did survive).

Include at least 3 pictures you found interesting to supplement your travels around town. These should be of places you spend time visiting or things you see, possibly something related to your identity. These pictures are to be copied from the internet sites you visit and stored in your image file. You will print them when you are ready to complete your journal .

Use your knowledge of volcanoes to:

Document warning signs for the impending eruption .
Describe the actual eruption
Name and visually describe the type of volcano and eruption (Since you have access to modern technology, you will know more than the Pompeiians did!)

Throughout your journal entries you need to include information from all six culture categories

Religion
Art and Entertainment
Communication
Daily Life
Government and Economy
Technology and Transportation

Your writing needs to sound like it comes from a real person, in otherwords, realistic and descriptive. The reader needs to feel your thoughts and emotions

You need to write in first person - from their point of view, with their opinions

Include locations around the city as you walk and visit them, tell what you did there, etc

Each entry should be several paragraphs long

Use se lf - editing to check your entries. Be sure to include the date, salutation, detailed descriptions describing your life and events, and a closure to each day

Journals will be hand written (no computers or typewriters in 79 A.D.) in black ink. You may use modern day pens. This journal needs to look like it has survived the many years of time. In otherwords, it needs to look like you wrote it in the time of the Vesuvius eruption and has recently been discovered in an archaeological dig.

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