11/14 "Deforestation"

Summary

This week I wrote a letter to Mr. Cuttatree telling him why he should not build the Uppitty Resort. My three main reasons to convince him with were because the food web will be affected in a negative way, us humans will receive less oxygen, and drought will happen. First we brainstormed ideas about what would convince him, then we picked the top three, next we made a topic sentence and graphed out where everything would go as well as adding in facts and examples to guide us while we write our letters. 

Backwards-looking reflection

Have you done a similar kind of work in the past (earlier in the year or in a previous grade; in school or out of school)?

Earlier in the year we worked on our letter to the school board trying to convince them that science was important and a big part of our education. This letter was similar to the letter to Mr. Cuttatree because in both we were trying to convince someone to do or to not do something. In both letters we wrote down our reasons and facts on a organizer which I think really helped both times. I think the second time writing the letter (which I am working on and not finished with) it was easier and I typed in a lot of information. 

What was especially satisfying to you about your work this week?

This week  really enjoyed writing my letter. I think that so far I did a good job and put in a lot of interesting facts. I especially liked my comparison between a kitchen and the rain forest's food web. 

I wrote "An easy way to think of this is to imagine that the rainforests food web is like a kitchen, if the kitchen is dirty ( if an animal is extinct or endangered ) then all the food in the kitchen becomes rotten, spoiled, and gross ( the food is all the animals connected to the extinct or endangered animal ). I'm pretty sure you wouldn't want to eat rotten food from a dirty kitchen. I know I would definitely rather eat food out of a clean kitchen!" I really liked this part of my blog. Another thing I did that I liked was adding in facts like how about 150-200 species become extinct everyday and how every second two U.S football fields of trees are cut down.