Rubbish Poetry

Language Features: Alliteration, metaphor, ellipses

Haiku:

Plastic ruins us

Our animals will soon die

If we do not stop

Acrostic:

Reduce, Reuse, Recycle

Unique animals could die

Because of pollution

Bad things could happen

If we don’t stop

Sea animals could become extinct

Here is the chance to stop…

Plastic kills animals

Or it releases diseases

Loads of rubbish is spread

Lots of it is in the sea

Unless we do something

To stop the plastic polluting

In a matter of no time
Our world could end at any minute

Now is the time to stop littering

Limerick:

There’s rubbish everywhere,

It could be in your hair,

Our animals will die,

With wind the rubbish can fly,

It really is a scare

Onomatopoeia Poetry:

Crunch, crunch, crunch,

The sound of a plastic wrap

Munch, munch

Metaphoric Poetry:

It is a disease,

It is a virus

It is a killer,

It is invincible,

It is a plane,

It is a polluter.

Poems with a twist:

Good people

Houses bright

Grass is green

Wind breeze relaxing

Birds tweeting

But rubbish hidden everywhere

Two weeks ago in Te Ngahere  we were learning to use the correct structure for a creative piece of writing. The theme had to be about rubbish, or Reduce, Reuse, Recycle. For language features I used: Alliteration, Metaphors, Ellipses and Onomatopoeia. I was working on these because I needed to evidence them. In my opinion I think I did well. Next time I think I need to work on Ellipses.

Plastic

A couple of weeks ago in Te Ngahere we were learning to use the correct structure for persuasive writing. Our topic for the persuasive writing was’ Should we use Plastic bags in supermarkets?’ I am a believer that plastic shouldn’t be used in supermarkets.

Ezra

Plastic

What would you prefer, Plastic or no plastic? Most would say no plastic but there is also that other percent that would prefer plastic. I strongly believe that plastic bags should not be used in super markets. Here are my reasons.

Plastic bags are made from petroleum-based products. These release gases into the atmosphere which open a hole in the o-zone layer causing heat to rapidly increase. Because of the heat increase icebergs melt and water levels rise, which means sooner or later the earth could be flooded. People around the world have calculated, graphically, about how much of the earth will be consumed by water.

Natural resources, these are the best but soon will become the worst. Seafood to be precise is becoming more and more contaminated because of pollution. For example fish eat plastic that could be contaminated. Other fish could eat that fish. Then we eat that fish and we could get a disease or sickness. The pollution that eventually heads to sea contaminates sea life that we eat which basically can make us ill.

Then we have our reputation, the thing that brings tourists to our beautiful country. They support us with money because of the way we look. But if we continue to pollute and litter our homes and towns tourists will start to fade in numbers.

These are some reason why I think plastic bags shouldn’t be used in supermarkets not only for our environment but our reputation as a clean green nation.

Visual Mihi

Last week we started our visual mihi. Basically we had to make a google drawing and add pictures of whatever would remind us of the English version. We had to add pictures that would translate the mihi  into a visual mihi. For example I chose the bird “Kaka” because it’s featured in the first part of the mihi. This was supposed to help us remember what it means in English. It helped me quite a lot.