The ancient city of….Fairfield?
Posted by Krissy PondenThe year is 5018. Archaeologists have recently unearthed a city hidden for thousands of years following a massive volcanic eruption in 2018. Remarkably, the inhabitants were able to escape, but their houses remained preserved, a snapshot in time. It appears that children had painted pictures on their bedroom walls that told stories about their lives: what they liked to do, what they enjoyed, and what their days were like. This is the scenario that sixth graders imagined when they created their own fresco paintings in visual arts following an investigation of the history of fresco painting and how much of what we know about daily life in the ancient cities of Akrotiri and Pompeii is from images preserved on walls. The students are also writing their own creative stories from the point of view of the archaeologists making this new discovery and interpreting the images they uncover.
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