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=Here is what I learned today:=

About Ancient Roman Life:

- if children were not married by the time they are 15 or 16 they were punished! - Cenaculum is the name for their apartments where they lived. Their floors where made out of mosaic tiles and their furniture was made of metal, marble or wood.

One Navigational Strategy:

- While browing for somehting that looked interesting I mainly looked at pictures and titles of links to see where I wanted to go, for instance one of the first links i saw was labeled, "Child's Life", which I found interesting when researching Ancient Roman Life.

One reliable source:

-The odyssey online about Rome is a reliable cite because I scrolled down to the bottom and saw that University of Emory, Rochester and Dallas had taken part in creating the site. These are all recognizable academic universities, therefore I consider them reliable.

One informational feature:

-I found a roman history time line which included time before the rise of Rome, Roman Republic, the Roman Empire, and the Fall of Rome at www.hisoryforkids.org.

Book Activity 6

Internet Workshop Objectives

During this Internet Workshop you will be expanding on what you already know about Ancient Rome and Pompeii from reading //Vacation Under the Volcano// by looking through a few websites. This will allow you to search through many websites to gain new interesting knowledge. Try to answer the open-ended questions so that you will be able to share your findings with your classmates.


 * 1) Go to the Nettworth Primary School website on Roman Times (http://atschool.eduweb.co.uk/nettsch/time/romans.html). Explore some of the links by clicking on them and scrolling down to read and look at pictures of what life was like in Roman times. See if you can find two interesting facts about the way Romans lived, you will be sharing your findings during the Internet Workshop.

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 * 1) While looking around in the same website (http://atschool.eduweb.co.uk/nettsch/time/romans.html) try to think pretend you are a fourth grader living in Ancient Rome. See if you can find at least one fact of you would be living. See if you can explore family, school, or social lives; You may even want to draw out a picture of yourself if you were living in their time. You will be sharing you findings and pictures during the Internet Workshop.

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 * 1) Be a detective. While looking through the Kids Corner website on Ancient Pompeii (http://www.thehumorwriter.com/Kids_Corner_--_Original_Storie/Ancient_Pompeii/ancient_pompeii.html) see if you can find out how and why the volcano erupted in Pompeii. You will share your findings during the Internet Workshop.

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 * 1) Pretend you are planning a trip to Pompeii yourself! You would probably want to know a little about what it is like after the volcano erupted. At the same Kids Corner site about Pompeii (http://www.thehumorwriter.com/Kids_Corner_--_Original_Storie/Ancient_Pompeii/ancient_pompeii.html) see if you can find out what is going on with Pompeii today (at least two facts) so you can be well prepared for you trip! You will be sharing you findings during the Internet Workshop!

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 * Evaluation Rubric:**


 * 8 points** if students record valid information from the websites
 * 2 points** if students record the correct number of facts asked for in the question


 * Total of 10 points**