Pompeii Depth study

Pompeii Depth study

Lesson Objectives


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To write about Pompeii using
persuasive language
to
describe

the features that you would find there


•
To give and receive
feedback

to improve yours and your peers
performance


•
To
plan your learning
, and choose your own behaviour through
using your knowledge of yourself and your experiences




Starter

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In pairs brainstorm some words that
you would associate with Pompeii

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Now brainstorm words that you would
associate with a really good holiday

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Feed these back to the group

Climb the assessment ladder

Climbing the history ladder.docx

Your Task

(
Pages 22
–

35 in The Roman Empire mosaic book and

Pages 16
–

23 in the purple empire book)


Your mission is to create a tourist brochure about the Roman city
of Pompeii


Your brochure should include
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1.
All about the shops

2.
What the houses look like

3.
How they have running water for public fountains

4.
What the ‘baths’ are like

5.
What the amphitheatre looks like and what happens there

6.
What the ‘basilica’ (the forum) looks like and what is there

7.
All the different religious temples

8.
A map of Pompeii with a key showing what is where


REMEMBER
–

your tourist brochure is to encourage Roman people
to come to Pompeii BEFORE THE VOLCANIC ERUPTION

Tourist Brochures

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What do they look like?

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What sort of information do they contain?

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What is their purpose or aim?


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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Iey7_N
_mEx4

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http://www.theukexperience.com/channel
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islands
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tourist
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guide.php


Persuasive language...


What is it?



Persuasive language uses certain ‘tricks’
to encourage people to do something,
buy something or believe something.
Remember in your brochure you are
persuading people to come and visit the
wonderful city of Pompeii



The Tricks

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Rhetorical questions

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Repetition

•
Alliteration

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Exaggeration

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Emotive language

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Similes
–

when two things that are not a like
are compared
.
i.e

she was like a rose.

•
Metaphors
-
a
figure of speech in which a term
or phrase is applied to something to which it is
not
accurately
applicable in order to suggest a
resemblance, as in
he laughed like a hyena.

Persuasive language...

Definition of Persuasive language:


To influence, win over, convince.


What words can you think of to persuade
people to come to Pompeii?






Example
–

Streets and shops
(page 22)

The Romans made their streets with stone and
built high pavements on each side to keep
people clear of the carts going up and down.


To persuade the Romans to visit you could say...


The solid stone streets of Pompeii are lined
with the most amazing shops that sell goods
from all around the globe, why not come along
and choose a souvenir to last a lifetime?

Example
–

The Amphitheatre
(page 30)

Read the paragraph and think about how might
you persuade people to visit
Pompeii
because
of the
amphitheatre


To persuade the Romans to visit you could say...


When you visit the amphitheatre you are able
to watch fights to the death between daring
gladiators and wild animals, its amazing, you
won’t want to miss it!

Practice Task (10 mins)

•
In your books write a couple of sentences about
the places you can see in
Pompeii

to practice
your
persuasive writing skills.
Some of you
might want to use a thesaurus to help you use
some really good words.



•
Do what to hear my world famous dinosaur
joke?




Your Task

(
Pages 22
–

35 in The Roman Empire mosaic book and

Pages 16
–

23 in the purple empire book)


Your aim is to create a tourist brochure about the Roman city of
Pompeii


Your brochure should include
-



1.
All about the shops

2.
What the houses look like

3.
How they have running water for public fountains

4.
What the ‘baths’ are like

5.
What the amphitheatre looks like and what happens there

6.
What the ‘basilica’ (the forum) looks like and what is there

7.
All the different religious temples

8.
A map of Pompeii with a key showing what is where


REMEMBER
–

your tourist brochure is to encourage Roman people
to come to Pompeii BEFORE THE ERUPTION

•
Rhetorical questions

•
Lists of three

•
Repetition

•
Alliteration

•
Exaggeration

•
Emotive language


Plenary

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Choose the sentence that you are most
proud of from your work today and
share this with your partner.



•
Also remember to tell them that Miss
Spencer is the best teacher
–

like forever!

Peer marking

You will now to check through your neighbours work and
underline key persuasive ‘tricks
’ that they have used. Also
give then a
comment about what they have done well
and a
suggestion about what they could do to make it better.


Tricks

Rhetorical questions

Lists of three

Repetition

Alliteration

Exaggeration

Emotive language

Plenary

1.

What have we learnt today?

2.
How have we learnt it?

3.
What do we need to improve for next
time?