In my last post about English Literacy, I forgot to mention that each year in this class, there will be at least one student product which is usually a piece of writing considering it’s literacy class and that we do a lot of writing. The theme for Literacy this round was Social and Environmental Injustice. The goal for the round was to create an argumentative essay which I think was the student product for this year, but I might be wrong. Writing an argumentative essay was a big thing which is why I think it is the student product. There may be more than one student product this year, but I’m not sure. This round, it was similar to last round. A lot of reading and writing. What I really want to talk about is the argumentative essay.
For the first half of the round, we did a lot of learning on Social and Environmental Injustice which means we learned a lot of about unfair things happening in the world related to society and the environment. Some of the unfair things were pollution-related problems and conflicts. At the halfway point of the round, we started our argumentative essays. We spent the first week learning how to write an argumentative essay while doing research then we just worked on the essay. For our essays, we were required to either write about an SDG (Sustainable Development Goal) or a past exploration. I chose to write about one of SDGs and that was SDG #14, Life Below Water. One fact about me is that I love the ocean very much. It’s so important and wonderful and fascinating. Many problems in the oceans have arisen in the past few decades. And the effects of those problems are devastating. One of those many problems was whaling. I didn’t know what whaling was before I started the essay research, but I felt like I wanted to write about it, so I chose whaling. Whaling is the hunting and killing of whales for the materials they provide. The last two weeks of this round was spent doing research, writing, and polishing the argumentative essay and I don’t have much else to say. So, I will leave a link for my argumentative essay at the end of this post for anyone who wants to read it. This round of literacy might be one of the best so far because I’m proud of myself for writing an argumentative essay about a topic that really interests me. Thank you for reading!
Argumentative Essay, “Why Whaling Needs to Be Banned”: http://bit.ly/2ThKGiS