T1+Persuade

__ Tuesday 29 March __

L.I. We are learning make content relevant and add weight to argument by having an effective position statement, main points, evidence and restatement. Contain elaboration of main points. E ffective position statement:S.C. we can
 * make our position and purpose clear
 * use a rhetorical question
 * include a list of fact/evidence that will be discussed in writing

Restatement, elaboration of main points: S.C. We Can make a main point and back it up with evidence or statistics
 * restate my position throughout my writing

Tuesday 29 March Dear Mr Diver Last Friday at T.I.S, we had an extended morning tea because of the kids good behaviour and getting back to class quickly and efficiently. I suspect that most children around the school appreciated the extension, this is why we must continue to have extensions if our behaviour is kept up to this high standard. Wouldn’t you want a extended morning tea if you were at intermediate? Having extended morning teas will mean that the teachers will have more time to finish work. The children will have more physical exercise and will come into class refreshed and ready to do more work that will be finished up at a high standard. Another reason is that all the kids will be getting back to class quickly knowing that there will be an reward at the end if the kids get back to class fast. Allowing the extensions to carry on for morning tea’s, the teachers will be able to engage in convivial conversation with other teachers, have a cup of coffee and mark or finish any work that needs to be completed, since they would have more time to do and finish these things. Also, teachers won’t be so grumpy since the will have more time relaxing and less time having kids coming up to them and bothering them with half witted questions. And you, yourself will be able to have time playing outside with the kids, then coming inside to have a nice conversation with another teacher. Children will be involved in physical exercise. Parents will notice a difference in their children’s fitness ability. Parents will be coming into the school and commenting on there children’s fitness increase and will be congratulating you on helping kids in T.I.S get more active. There would also be an enlargement in sport. As we are the most powerful intermediate school in sport for New Zealand, having more kids involved in sport would make us more powerful and we would stay as the most powerful school for a very long time. All of this can be achieved if you extend our morning teas. Kids will be running back to class faster knowing that there will be an reward if they do get back to class fast. And teachers will be happy that kids want to get back to class quickly and efficiently and teachers won’t have to wait around for the kids to come back to class. Don’t you want this possible? Well this all could be possible if you just let it be and I can tell you, we would be very thankful if you did let us have an extended morning tea.Thank-you for your time. Please consider my letter as it would make a big difference.



**Nuclear Power Persuasive Writing - Against**

New Zealand must not take the risk of getting nuclear power. Would you risk your own life just so that you could have cheaper electricity? I certainly wouldn't. New Zealand has many other alternatives for creating electricity. Wind power, geothermal power, solar power, hydroelectric power and tidal power. Nuclear power is a death sentence waiting to happen. It can cause cancer, radiation waste and can blow up and kill thousands of humans just like whats happened in Japan.  There are many types of cancer that everyday New Zealanders can get. Yet, nuclear power will be only enhancing the chance of New Zealanders to be infected with cancer and the same goes for leukemia. In Germany, There has been cases (between 1980 and 2003) of children below the age of 5 that had been infected with cancer. 1,592 children received the disease after living around a nuclear power plant. Results have shown a significantly higher risk to getting cancer if children live within a circle of less than 5 km around a nuclear power station. When I’m older, I certainly don’t want my kids to have cancer. Radiation waste is another huge problem that nuclear power workers will have to live with. The radiational waste must be stored where there can be no earthquakes, flooding or tourist attacks and everything else. It must be stored for thousands of years for the radiation to die down and become safe and secure. Hundreds of employees from a nuclear power plant have been killed from being and working so close to nuclear waste that they received the cancer and died. The most harmful of which are gamma rays. When the human body is exposed to radiation, it can cause tumors and can do extreme damage to the reproductive organs. This is why we must not have nuclear power. Another reason is that Nuclear power station is enable to have a ‘melt down.’ It begins when the core of the reactor starts to overheat and melt. When a meltdown does happen, it is very serious and could cause total destruction. Many Russian nuclear submarines have experienced meltdowns, yet there has been three major meltdowns. These were the, Three Mile Island Pennsylvania, USA in 1979, Chernobyl nuclear power plant in Ukraine in 1986 and the most recent and being the worse, Fukushima power plant, Japan, in 2011. Nuclear power is deadly and dangerous, it can kill and harm thousands of people. There will always be the risk and I will never take that risk. Just think about it. Your own life or death. Your choice.