Once we reached Naples, we visited the Naples Archaeological Museum. Students divided into small groups and each group agreed on a theme to provide a thread to follow through the museum--they could choose any theme they wanted. Themes included facial expressions in ancient art, comparisons between Greek and Roman statues, and sexuality in the ancient world (the museum has a famous collection related to sexual expression).
Griffin, JJ, and Paris traveled through the museum rapidly and thoroughly!
Claire explored the museum with her camera, documenting evidence for her group.
After walking through the museum and studying their chosen theme as represented in the museum's collections, we reconvened as a larger group and discussed and reported on what we found.
The students observed that some of their themes related well to other groups' themes, and took note of how they were able to get a clearer whole picture of the ancient Roman world by integrating multiple groups' findings. For many students, this was good practice and inspiration for their individual, customized final projects!
At lunch, we celebrated a very important day: Cora's 16th birthday!
We sang her "Happy birthday" in Italian, and briefly talked about the evidence that ancient Roman women celebrated their birthdays too!
Later on, we explored Pompeii. It was magnificent in its ordinariness! One of our favorite spots was the baths, where we were able to really imagine ancient Pompeiians socializing, working out, and washing up.
Photos by Hannah Welch
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