Persuasive Writing.

LG: To be able to persuade others to our point of view through writing.

SOS:

• Plan your writing carefully so that it has and introduction, body and conclusion.

• Make sure that each paragraph begins with a main point and is backed up by evidence or detail.
• Make sure that the argument is based around facts and contains vocabulary that is appropriate to the audience.
• Point of view is clear throughout writing.

I strongly believe, that having a sibling is way better than being an only child.

In my opinion, having a sibling is the best, because if you have siblings you’ll never get bored, for instance you can either hang out with them, talk to them or even annoy them instead of staying locked up in your room watching Tv or playing games on your phone.

I personally think that, the best reason to have a sibling is to blame things on them, for example if you break something very valuable and you know you’ll get in big trouble you can just blame it on your sibling and that way you will always stay the favorite child.

Most people would agree that using your siblings stuff can be very useful, especially if it’s clothes, because older siblings have very stylish clothes and of they don’t let you just take it! They’ll never know, unless it's one of their favorites.

Furthermore, having a sibling can be fun and useful because you can hangout with them whenever you're bored, blame stuff on them if you don’t want to get in trouble (which is all the time) and you can also use their stuff whenever you want so there are 3 incredibly good reason why having siblings are the best!

Noah's Ark

In my opinion, I should be put on the ark, because I'm a magical creature that can provide food and fresh drinking water for you and the animals,so we all don’t die of starvation and dehydration.

I strongly believe, that I need a place on the ark because, I have a magical unicorn horn that can help me protect the other animals from terrifying sea creatures, like sharks and killer whales that are trying to destroy the ark or kill the animals for food, I can even put a powerful force field around the ark when there is a storm to stop the ark from tipping over like the titanic.

Most people would agree that I should definitely be on the ark, because when it’s a cold or windy night I can make a magical fire that will never go out so it will always be there to keep everyone nice and warm.

Finally, my last reason is that … I’M JUST AWESOME! Like come on who wouldn’t want a unicorn as a companion to help cook food, be safe and even be warm on cold and windy nights.

Historical Dairy Entry

April 25th 1915

‘’BANG’’ guns fired as a hopped out of the landing boat, the first thing I did was trudge up the steep, rugged hills ready to back up the Aussies on the battlefield , I stepped inside and all that I saw were soldiers firing guns, empty bullet shells and dead decomposed bodies lying in front of me, just looking at the revolting view made me sick knowing that I could be like that in just a few days.

After we reach the trenches ready to take orders from Lieutenant (Spencer) Westmacott, he said ‘’ shoot em in the stomach and get a man for every bullet you fire!’’. Just the thought of killing another human gave me shivers, but I had to be strong to protect my country and my family, I finally gained the courage to step foot on the battlefield and fight for my country when I got there I only saw the splatter of blood on everything and the screaming of dying soldiers filled the putrid air.

Ready to protect my country from the turks I shot my first bullet it flew through the air and ‘’BANG’’  it shot someone behind enemy lines, I was just about to celebrate but I remembered that I had to stay quiet so that the turks wouldn't spot me.

I was half deaf after the turks shower of bullets the sound of screaming and crying soldiers filled the air at that dreadful moment, about over 650  NZ casualties in less than a day, it was completely and utterly horrible.

As the darkness was setting upon us the quiet whispers of soldiers pleading and praying filled the room I was sleeping in, before I dozed off into a not so peaceful slumber I prayed to god to keep me and the rest of the soldiers safe during this frightening time in our lives.

Diary Entry

Sunday 19th March 2017

It was a bright, sunny morning my family and I got ready to go house shopping, we went over to Ariel street and found a lovely house with a sleepout and beautiful flowery wallpaper all around the walls, but the only problem was the carpet, it had rips and stains that the old owners couldn’t get rid of so we didn’t even think of buying the house, it took us half an hour to look at other houses but none of them interested us and the ones that did catch our eye were already sold, so we went home disappointed until our friends next door told us they were moving to auckland and selling their house I Was so excited but not as excited as my Mum she was already negotiating to get the price lower.

Diary Entry

LG: To write a diary entry.
SOS: Use Past Tense
* Use Thoughts And Feelings
* Things You Enjoyed
* Things you would/wouldn't change
* Things You Found Exciting
* Things You Found Challenging
* Use I Not i

Sunday 12th March 2017

It was my sister (Abigail’s) 3rd birthday party, the house was packed, everyone was talking and the kids were screaming I couldn’t hear myself think but suddenly everyone in the room stopped it was complete silence until the clown barged in and introduced himself ‘’Hello kids im CJ the clown ready for some fun!!!’’ I gagged at what he said no one can be that happy I thought so I just sat at the table stuffing my mouth with delicious food and sweet lollies.

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The Lawnmower Man

LG: Write a recount based on our experiences at camp.
SOS
* Use an interesting beginning to hook in your reader.
* Use a variety of descriptive language features.
* Use interesting and engaging ideas.
* Use paragraphs
* Use past tense
* Sequence ideas

The Lawnmower Man

It was a dark and chilly night at Forest Lakes camp the moon was shining and the stars were glistening, Mr Moore was getting ready to tell us the spooky Lawnmower man story, while I was admiring the beautiful starry sky, the people around me were excited and scared at the same time.

Mr Moore was all ready to tell us the story I could feel shivers going up my spine, the story started off fine just a couple of kids teasing someone about a scar on their face but as the story went on it got worse The lawnmower man (also known as Dennis) was mowing the grass at forest lakes camp when he got distracted by children shouting his name and screaming ‘’SCARFACE!!!!’’, Dennis was so distracted by the children that he didn’t notice that his lawnmower was still on and moving towards him!! But when he realised, it was too late it had already pushed him into the lake behind him, never to be seen again.

Those last 5 words scared me to death but I knew the story was fake it had to be, as Mr Moore was telling us about Dennis’s letter they found in 2011 I heard footsteps… ‘’RRRRRRRRR!!!!!’’ ‘’AHHHHHHH!!!’’ everyone around me screamed by the roaring sound of the chainsaw.