Friday, 27 April 2018

Homework due Friday, 4th May

Persuasive Letter

Our local and global community have a plastic problem. We want you to do something about it! Have a look at the facts below:
1)      10 million metric tonnes of plastic waste end up in our seas and oceans each year. This is the same weight as about 2 million elephants- imagine that!
2)      Plastic takes thousands of years to decompose and rot away!
3)      There is an enormous pile of plastic waste floating in the Pacific Ocean which is now larger than France!
4)      It is predicted that by 2050 there will be more plastic in the oceans than fish.
5)      Some of our sealife is dying due to the fact that these vulnerable creatures are eating the plastic which poisions them.
6)      Hounslow Borough Council do not collect recycling from schools!
Task:  We are asking all children at Chatsworth to work together as a community to write a letter to Hounslow Borough Council to PERSUADE them to start collecting recycling from schools in the borough. Your letter should give at least three reasons why they should collect recycling from schools. You may decide to write a paragraph for each reason. Try to include persuasive sentence starters (Surely you agree that…..Everybody knows that….I strongly believe that….) and rhetorical questions (How would you feel if…? Don’t you know that….?) Please write your letter on PAPER.
You do not need to include any addresses on your letter as we will send a covering letter as a school. You could set out the letter as below:

Date

Dear Councillor,

I am writing because….
…….
…….

Yours sincerely

Your name

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