Explanation

 LI: to use transitional vocab

This week we have been revising explanation writing. Next week is our assessment week so we did this collaborative challenge to remind ourselves what is needed when we write explanations, our explanation was about our school's CARE values and why they are important for learners In PBS.

Link to explanation

Why it is important to make wise choices

L.I to write an explanation

This week for writing we prepared for our writing test. We did this by writing and explanation about why it is important to make wise choices with the topic of our choice. In my explanation I talked about drugs, why people take drugs and the consequences.

Drugs are a substance that is not food, water or oxygen, like most things there is a good and a bad side to drugs. The good types of drugs help people get better and support the body, these types of drugs include Panadol, Antibiotics, asthma inhalers, etc. The bad types of drugs cause people harm, it causes brain damage, changes their appearance and causes them to hallucinate ( Imagine something that is not actually there) 

People take drugs usually because they want to forget something, but the effects wear off after a certain amount of time. That  causes people to want more therefore getting addicted to them and that leads to bad choices being made. In New Zealand there are three different classes of drugs, Class A, Class B and Class C. These classes are different levels of drugs, they all have different consequences. You can get punished for having them in possession or making them.

If you are caught with A class drugs which are the most harmful drugs you could spend up to six months in jail, getting caught distributing them you could spend life in prison. With B class drugs you can spend three months in jail, distribution of these and you could spend 14 years in prison. Getting caught with C class drugs will make you spend about three months in prison as well, distribution of these drugs and you’ll be spending eight years in prison.

As you now know drugs can be good or bad, Some countries aren't as generous though, having drugs in countries like Indonesia will get you executed. It comes up to our choices that can prevent us from going the wrong way.

Writing

L.I to structure and write and explanation

For writing we looked at explanations. An explanation is how or why something is thew way it is. The structure of an explanation is TIIC which stands for Title, Introduction, Information and Conclusion. Our explanation was about plastic pollution and how it effects our marine life.

Why plastic pollution is

a problem for our coastlines

Did you know plastic pollution is a big problem to our ocean and marine life? Plastic pollution is taking over our coastlines. Plastic pollution is an environmental issue that affects our ocean, marine life and land. Many of our oceans are polluted with plastic. Think about Thailand, their oceans are so polluted that it changed from normal looking water to pitch black.

When the plastic washes up into the water, seabirds and marine animals mistake it for food. They also get caught up in plastic and the rubbish which ends up deforming the marine animals. There are pictures of turtles who’s shells have been deformed because they have been caught up in the plastic. Do you feel good about that?

When you litter your rubbish it goes to the water system and leads to the ocean. It gets washed up on our coastlines. Then it degrades into small pieces of plastic that get washed into the ocean. Seabirds and marine animals mistake it for food or get caught up in the plastic who then get deformed. 

If you see a piece of plastic just take some time to pick it up and put it in the bin. A small action could make a big change. So use the rubbish bin.

Explnation

L.I to write and explanation

For writing we did a explanation of our choice. My explanation was about how the UEFA Champions League works. We did this by learning the structure of an explanation. The tools I used was my Chromebook.

Writing

L.I to plan and write and explanation

we learnt what an explanation is. An explanation is How to do something or how something works. The must do was to rewrite an explanation about chocolate and how it's made and add photos to all the stages.

Writing

Today I did my writing. It was on writing an explanation. First we chose out topics mine was on football.Then we used a planner to plan everything out. After that we went on a google draw and wrote a explanation about football.