My Story Review

Story Review

WALT: summarise and analyse the main ideas of a text.  

Answer all these questions

Title: Ancient but Earthquake proof

Author: Lynne Bevan

Book Setting: (What is the place the story is written about? What do you know about this place?).

• The story is in Greece
• Athens is the capital of Greece
• in 2013 there were 11.03 million people in Greece

Summary of the story: (What is the story about? What does the story teach you? ).

• Page 1. We are going to learn about builders who lived 2,500 years ago
• Page 2. Greece is suffering through major Earthquakes
• Page 3. There are a lot of Ancient (Old) Buildings
• Page 4. Parthenon is kind of like the spine in your back
• Earthquakes can be really dangerous and that some can’t really be that harmful

Facts: (Write something that you found interesting)

Interesting: That the columns building have been there for like a thousand years

Vocabulary (Choose 2 words you didn’t know, google them and write what they mean).

1. Parthenon
2. Vertebrae

1. Meanings
2. Parthenon means the temple of Athena Parthenos on the Acropolis at Athens is Completed.
3. Vertebrae are all the little bones that make your back up straight

Connections (Choose 2 things that you have learned from the story)

1. That Parthenon is like the spine in your back
2. You’ll be quite safe under towering marble columns