Explanation Writing Evaluation

Caring for the planet

Are you aware of how you could be harming our planet?
Well, I’m here to tell you all about one specific thing that we do everyday that can harm our Planet.
That one thing  is plastic. Plastic is harming our country by taking away our marine animals such as
turtles, sharks and fishes. For this to stop we should use less plastic. Relating to that turtles are mistaking
plastic bags for jellyfish. We can always use our handy reusable bags that are a few dollars at Pak ‘n save
& Countdown. The reusable bags are useful because you can use them as many times as you want.

Plastic bags are dump in landfill everyday, and it stays there until it breaks down.
These bags are biodegradable so it takes 400 years to break down. So many people have tried to stop
plastic coming into our country, but there's always shops still using plastic bags. Plastic bags can also
pollute our waters by filling the oceans/seas with plastic. It is said that by the middle of this century
there will be more plastic in our ocean than marine animals.

Plastic bags are taking away food source for our marine animals. When the plastic bag takes away food
source for marine animals, it is taking away oxygen for fishes. If plastic bags take the oxygen from our
fishes then we will not have many marine animals. Although we haven’t yet ban plastic bags we are still
trying to get it to be banned. People have done campaigns to help clean the plastic that gets into our
beaches, people have also made petitions for people all around the country sign, so once we get rid of
plastic bags we will have more marine animals.

New Zealand’s Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern says that Plastic bags will be banned by the end of next
year. I agree with her statement because the sooner we get rid of plastic bags, the sooner we have more
marine animals. We will have a lot of marine animals if we ban plastic bags. One thing plastic bags can
do to hurt our marine animals is that it can get caught around them, so when they grow the plastic will
slowly choke them.

This whole explanation was to show people that plastic is harming our planet by taking away our
marine animals. If we don’t change the way we think, we could end up swimming in plastic bags.
Remember we don’t need to use plastic bags. We can use our Reusable bags. These Reusable bags
do not harm our planet because they are safer than the single use plastic bag.

Reflection

This week for writing we went over our Writing Samples. We got to use the LS2 Writing Rubric to
help check our understandings of writing an explanation. We were told to find a partner to work with. My
Partner was Miiana, but now currently Sandra. We both had a quick read through on each others
explanations. Once we finished we were told to copy a table that was provided on the LS2 rubric. It included
photos saying Self Check, Teacher Check and Buddy Check. In each of those photos next to it was a text
box, in the self check, we had to write what we were good at in each topic, And the things that we needed
to work on had to be written to. For the teacher check, we had to Copy and paste the part we were actually
pretty good at. Last for the buddy check, we had to let our buddy tell us what we were good at and also
what we were bad at. On the very top of the table it had each topic and the level we thought we were at
and what level our partner thought that we were at. We had to be honest of what we thought our level was.