The boy wakes up and is excited for market day. He watches his father sort beads to trade at the marketplace. They take the main road through town, passing drains and other roads, and arrive at the large marketplace gate above which is a sign that reads "The Market". The boy will accompany his father to trade beads with merchants as people in the Indus Valley civilization did long ago.

1. What was life like in the
Indus Valley civilisation?
My Diary Entry

2. The boy opened his eyes
to the warm morning
sun. He watched it
sneak across the hard
earth floor of his room
and up the plastered
walls. In the corner of
the room he could see
his toy cart. It was filled
with small jars and
looked as if it was ready
for a journey.

3. The boy smiled. It was market day today
and he would go with his father to the
marketplace. There his father would trade
his beads with the travelling merchants.

4. The boy walked into the central
courtyard of his family's house where the
sun was already bright and hot.

5. The boy's father was already
busy preparing for the day.
The boy watched as his father
sorted a pile of beads into
groups.
It had taken so long to make
each one of the beads and
they looked wonderful. The boy
loved the red beads the most.
It was hard for him to believe
that the gleaming, richly-
coloured, rounded beads had
once been pale, rough stones.

6. As he stood in the
courtyard with his father,
the boy heard the gentle
hollow clicking of his
mother's bracelets as she
entered the courtyard.
She wore several bracelets
on her wrists like most of
the women in the town.
However, hers were special
ones made of shell instead
of clay.

7. When the boy's father had finished sorting the
beads, he and the boy left the house to go to
the marketplace. They stepped out of their
doorway into an alley. Then they walked to the
main road and turned towards the upper
town.

8. The main road was wide and busy with
people and animals. This road ran
straight across the lower town. The boy
and his father passed by two or three
other main roads which cut across the
lower town. Along the sides of these
roads ran the drains which carried
waste water out of town.

9. The boy and his father walked through
the lower town and middle town. Finally,
they reached a large gate. Above the gate
was a large board with several large white
signs set in wood. ‘The Market’, it said.

10. My Sources
I got my photographs from:
1. http://www.ancientindia.co.uk/indus/st
ory/sto_set.html
2. http://www.bbc.co.uk/schools/primaryh
istory/indus_valley/way_of_life/
3. Seconday 1 Textbook