Persuasive Essay

Hey guys!

We are working on our draft persuasive essays!

Here are some topics that you guys said you wanted to work on:
1. Adoption
2. Global Warming
3. Drugs
4. Gangs
5. Smoking
6. Alcohol
7. Music and Violence
8. Racism
9. Economy
10. Child Labor
11. Weight Loss and health
12. Charities.
13. Homeless
14. Pollution
15. Animal Abuse
16. Child Abuse
17. Video Game
18. Peer Pressure
19. War
20. Military
21. Price of Gasoline
22. Animals becoming Extinct
23. Foster Children
24. Smoking
25. Sports
26. Starvation
27. More jobs/stronger economy
28. Saving the Enviromnent
29. Wildfires
30. Crime
31. Gossip


These topics are all up for grabs. If

Portfolio Work

So, here it goes.

You have a portfolio, due in June.

You have *4* pieces to put in it in addition to 25 books and summaries.

The following are the genres of writing we have to do;

Persuasive Essay
Narrative Account
Narrative Procedure
Report of Information

In these types of work, there are definite formats that we have to follow. I will give you examples that you can follow, but you cannot copy them and use them for your portfolio.


The topics of these pieces of writing can be entirely up to you unless I specify something else.