Plastic bags are harmful for the environment.

WALT use language features of persuasive writing

To be successful I will:

Use rhetorical questions to make my writing interesting
Use emotive language (words about feelings/emotions)

                          Plastic bags are harmful for the environment.

I strongly believe that plastic bags are harmful for the environment. Do you agree?  

My first reason is that plastic bags are dangerous to animals. Say if there were heaps of plastic bags around animals and they ate it they will choke and die. Won’t that be tragic? added to this, plastic bags are non biodegradable which means that it cannot rot down like other things can rot down. So it’s bad for the animal life. Would that be devastating to people if animals die from plastic bags?  No you would you be heartbroken.

My second reason is that plastic bags are made out of petroleum. Petroleum comes out of the ground. People use big drills to drill it out of the ground. Let’s not get off topic. So, petroleum is the same as petrol, it's dangerous if swallowed and toxic to aquatic life. Would you want all aquatic life to die? No because it would be tragic if aquatic life die from plastic bags?  

My third reason why is that it’s pretty much everywhere. Say if there were dozens of plastic bags in your house get rid of it, it harms the environment. Added to this we will be plastic bag free so that it can’t harm the environment. Do you want plastic bags around you and everywhere? No that would be disgusting.  

In summary  I think that plastic bags are harmful for the environment is that it’s dangerous for animal life, it’s non biodegradable and it’s made out of petroleum which is harmful to people and to aquatic life.   

People should not dump their waste into the landfill

WALT use linking phrases between paragraphs to support the development of the text.

My next learning step is to speed up my work because I only had one paragraph and the rest of the group finished their draft and had a lesson on linking phrases between paragraphs to support the development of the text. so I missed out on the learning.

 Waste, waste, waste, it's all just waste and rubbish. Just throw it in the landfill. Do you agree or disagree that people should not dump their rubbish in the landfill? Well, I agree that people should not dump their rubbish into the landfill. I will try my best to persuade you and explain why people should not dump their rubbish into the landfill.

My first reason why I think that people should not dump their rubbish into the landfill is that it’s causing pollution to the environment which is not good for our environment. It might also be hazardous.           

My second reason is that all the hazardous stuff in the landfill like batteries and computers affects the environment and people. Plus about two thirds of landfilled waste is biodegradable. Added to this leachate is toxic liquid that leaks from landfills and gets into the water system. Also if it gets into the water system people will drink it and get poisoned and die. How disastrous will that be?

My third reason why people should not dump their rubbish into the landfill is that all the biodegradable things in there rots and decomposes  producing harmful gases like carbon dioxide and methane. Adding to global warming.

In summary I think that people should not dump their rubbish into the landfill because it’s just harming the environment.