For our writing sample Max chose to write a fictional recount about the day Vesuvius erupted in 79AD at Pompeii.

The Real Story of Pompeii

By Max Cameron-Lee

Arr!!! I screamed as the ground started to shake on a summer’s morning at Pompeii. Once it stopped I did not know what had just happened.

I looked out the window at Mount Vesuvius and saw a huge black cloud of smoky ash was coming out of it. I went to my father and asked what was going on he said it was nothing to worry about, but I was very worried!!!

At about mid-afternoon I noticed it was getting very hot, I opened some windows but that just made it worse.

At late afternoon I saw that the ash cloud was starting to fall I went outside to have a look and I could not breathe. I saw people on the street, were they dead? Were they alive? No one knew. Arr!!! I saw lots of rocks flying out of the volcano everyone was screaming and then the lava started dribbling out of the volcano. I thought the world was going to end then I screamed and swallowed a lot of ash and fell to the ground in pain…and died.