On Friday bring the rough copies of the newspaper article assignment that we worked on in class today. The assignment is as follows:
You are a reporter near Pompeii and see Mount Vesuvius erupt. As the journalist on the scene, write a news article about what has happened.
In your opening two sentences, make sure that you include information about what has happened, where it happened, when it happened, and who has been affected.
Once you have covered that information, spend the rest of your article providing details such as why the mountain erupted, how the people escaped, how many people died, how many people survived. Your numbers don't have to be historically accurate, just believable.
Include two quotes in your article (one from the story and one from your imagination) and make up the names of the interview subjects.
Finally, include at least three different sense descriptions (what did people see, hear, taste, touch, or smell).
