This half term’s geography learning has culminated in a letter to our Environment Minister, Steve Reed.
We want to urge him to take climate change even more seriously after what we’ve found out about how it’s impacting the world around us.
We have been learning about how melting ice caps, due to global warming, and therefore rising sea levels have been catastrophic for places around the world like Kale Island in the Solomon Islands.
We have learnt about how this change in sea level and more extreme weathers are leading to a rise in coastal erosion. Places like Skipsea suffer directly with damage to people’s homes, a decrease in tourism and sadly, in rare cases, loss of life.
We are writing to Steve Reed with several recommendations for how he can make effective changes. In addition, we are including a range of persuasive devices like flattery, emotive language and rhetorical questions.
Help at home by rereading this post to find all the examples of formal language.
“We wrote the letters into our books. Then we edited them and published them onto laptops to save paper,” explained Charlie.
Raheem said, “We’re writing this to make sure that Steve Reed will listen to our concerns.”
“It’s a nice experience because it’s a change from our normal handwritten letters or writing lessons,” beamed Luca.