Dona Herweck Rice
You Are There!
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Rachelle Cracchiolo, M.S.Ed., Publisher
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Dona Herweck Rice , Series Developer
Emily R. Smith, M.A.Ed., Content Director
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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Names: Rice, Dona, author.
Title: You are there! London 1666 / Dona Herweck Rice.
Description: Huntington Beach, CA : Teacher Created Materials, [2017] |
Includes index. | Audience: Grades 7-8.
Identifiers: LCCN 2016034998 (print) | LCCN 2016035398 (ebook) | ISBN
9781493836161 (pbk.) | ISBN 9781480757202 (eBook)
Subjects: LCSH: Great Fire, London, England, 1666. | London
(England)--History--17th century.
Classification: LCC DA681 .R53 2017 (print) | LCC DA681 (ebook) | DDC
942.1/2066--dc23
LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2016034998
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Table of Contents
Warm London Night, 1666 .............
Inside the Bakery ..................... 6
Out of Control ...................... 10
Damage Done ....................... 18
Oh, Rats! .......................... 24
Where Are They Now? ................
Glossary ........................... 28
Index .............................
Check It Out! ....................... 30
Try It! ............................. 31
About the Author ....................
Warm London Night, 1666
Perilous Plague
About 100,000 Londoners died of the
bubonic plague in 1665 , making it one of
the worst outbreaks in history . The plague
traveled easily through the crowded , dirty
city . An infected person rst suffered intense ,
u-like symptoms followed by painful
swellings , or buboes , of the lymph nodes .
A hot , dry breeze wafts the yeasty scent of baking
bread down Pudding Lane . Most residents of the city
sleep inside the tightly packed homes that line Londons
narrow , cobbled streets . But in the stiing byways on this
September night , cats howl , rats scurry , and countless
homeless citizens huddle in doorways and alleys . Though
their lots in life are challenging , today they are grateful
simply to be alive. Twenty percent of Londons population
has died over the past two years . A deadly and painful
plague has ravaged the city throughout 1665 and even
unto this date September , 1666 a day that history
will long remember .
While the city sleeps , Thomas Farriners bakery shows
The Facts
The Great Fire of London began at
Thomas Farriners bakery on Pudding
Lane , just past midnight on Sunday ,
September . Farriner , a baker for
King Charles II , lived upstairs .
signs of life . The staff has mixed , rolled , and baked their
wares , preparing for the mornings customers . Customers
they will never see . Because on this hot night , no one
notices a wayward spark from the oven until it is too late .
And the city burns .
Inside the Bakery
An Eyewitness Account
It made me weep to see it , seventeenth century
diary writer Samuel Pepys famously wrote of the
Great Fire of London . His home was a few blocks
from Pudding Lane .
The summer of 1666 had been unseasonably dry
and windy . The land was parched , and the people felt
parched , too . Disease had ravaged them , and they were
tired , worn out , and fearful of what may come . The
reign of Death an indiscriminate reaper can do that
to people .
Saturday , September , dawned as dry and windy as
the many days before it had been . The people felt stied
in the suffocating city streets , where their tightly packed
houses t together like pieces of a patchwork quilt .
Thomas Farriners bakery was similar in many
ways to the warehouses that surrounded it . The wooden
buildings were crowded and highly ammable . The
timbers themselves were dry as bone from months of
parched , dusty weather .
With the right conditions , everything could go up in
smoke . As a single chime from the clock tower heralded
the hour early Sunday morning , the right conditions had
fallen into place .
A Common Concern
o House res were common in the
seventeenth century . Why do you think
that was ?
o What are todays common re hazards ?
o What precautions against re should
