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Journey’s SC �Stonehenge: A Riddle L30 – Q&A Week 17�A&R

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Stonehenge

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Stonehenge

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Discovering the past.

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  4. The sun will come up.
  5. I underestimated how much studying I had to do for my big test.

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Stonehenge: A Riddle

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It is about 80 miles west of London, in England.

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Pg. 295

The archaeologists try to figure out how old the ruins are.

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Pg. 296

It was built at a slow pace because moving the big stones would have taken a very long time to move into place.

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Pg. 297

  1. Workers began building it more than 5000 years ago.
  2. They dug a round ditch of six feet deep.
  3. They dug fifty-six holes inside the ditch.

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Pg. 298

You can pull the cart with the stone in it, making it easier to move.

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Pg. 299

They placed huge stones upright in a circle, with flat stones on top.

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Pg. 300

People will continue to come up with ideas of how Stonehenge was built.

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Look back and respond

  1. They started building it more than 5000 years ago.

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2. They moved them for about 240 miles.

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3. It took a lot of time for workers to build Stonehenge. If it hadn’t been important, it wouldn’t have been built.

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4. Stonehenge will always be a riddle or a mystery.