Cassia's Diary

Andrew Langley

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Cassia and her family live in a tiny apartment in ancient Rome. Her parents are too poor to send her to school. Instead, Cassia and her brother spend their days working at a stinky laundry cleaning dirty clothes. Cassia dreams of a better life for her and her family. If only they could move out of the noisy city onto a quiet farm. But how will Cassia ever be able to make her dream come true?

Informations

• Publié par: Capstone Global Library
• Date de parution: 25 août 2017
• Nombre de lectures: 0
• EAN13: 9781474746465
• Langue: English
• Poids de l'ouvrage: 5 Mo

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Cassia’s Diary

The Story of One Girl’s Adventures in Ancient Rome

by Andrew Langley illustrated by Russ Daff

Cassia’s Diary

Level 35  Fiction

Word count: 5,191

Curriculum links: diary, journal, history, ancient Rome

Text type: historical fiction

Academic vocabulary: bathhouses, chariot, citizens, dodged, emperor, Empire, exhausting, gladiator, merchant, mosquitoes, outvoted, victories

Programme link: Cassia’s DiaryE-Book

Cassia’s Diary The Story of One Girl’s Adventures in Ancient Rome

Andrew Langley illustrated by Russ Daff

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Cassia’s Diary: The Story of One Girl’s Adventures in Ancient Rome

ISBN: 978 1 4747 4595 6

Co nte nts

Chapter 1 4 June, AD 99. Life is dull . . . . . . . . . . . 4

Chapter 2 5 June. News of a visit . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12

Chapter 3 6 June. A day trip . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20

Chapter 4 7 June. Dreams of the farm . . . . . . . . . 32

Chapter 5 8 June. A great idea . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 40

Chapter 6 9 June. Things change . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 48

Chapter 7 24 June. Dreams come true . . . . . . . . . 64

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Chapter 1 4 June, AD 99. Life is dull

I’ve had enough of donkeys. They kept me awake again last night. All night long, I heard, heehaw, heehaw! I never did get back to sleep. All night, carts rattled and creaked. They scraped walls and crashed into each other. Men yelled and donkeys heehawed. This happens most nights. Large carts and wagons are not allowed into Rome to deliver goods during the day, so they all come to the city after dark. I lay awake for hours in the hot little room. My entire family has to sleep in the same room because our apartment is so small. I could hear Papa snoring, Mama tossing and turning and my older brother, Crispus, slapping at mosquitoes.