My Reflection on the Process

I chose to write my persuasive about littering because I knew that littering was a big deal and it was one of the main reasons why there’s starting to form global warming and that if I wrote about littering it would warn and tell people to stop littering. I also wrote my persuasive about littering because it’s something I care about and am passionate about. I enjoyed making the slide show because I liked adding all the pictures, photographs and standing out words. I think the process of doing this was simple because I had already had experience making a video aka slideshow in adobe and because Mr. Casal showed us how to do it and he is great with technology so we learned from him.  One part from this process that was tricky for me was the recording because even though I got through it pretty quickly I was struggling to talk smoothly into my computer and say the right words at the right time, I sometimes got messed up. My favorite part of this process was obviously playing with rainbows, unicorns and fireworks. My least favorite part was the revision part, aka finding mistakes. Like, wrong spelling and capitalization mistakes, personally I just thought that was boring, more boring and more boring. I liked writing my essay because I enjoyed typing all the information and facts I knew about littering, because in my slideshow video I couldn’t have every single piece of  detail I have in my essay. The hardest part of the process in my essay was revision because I had a hard time finding mistakes even though I had a lot.  

My Essay on Littering

By Ellie 

Have you heard of the garbage patch? I heard it’s 3 times the size of France!!!! That’s because people keep throwing their trash into the ocean without even knowing what they are doing. Also did you know that U.S. roadways accumulate over 51 billion pieces of litter per year! I think that is the reason why there’s always litter everywhere, but that’s not the only reason that there’s always litter everywhere there’s more.

Another reason  is  people are using the roads, oceans and beaches as their personal garbage collectors. One way to state this is that people are often irresponsible about where they put their garbage, you might think, “ Who cares it doesn’t matter where you put your garbage nothing happens anyways.” But you are mistaking, it does matter, in fact the more litter keeps building up, the more you will regret and damage the world.One example is instead of throwing your garbage out the car window, hold onto it until you find a recycling bin or trash can. Another example is that, I have seen people throw their trash right next to the trash can instead of in it, they are just being lazy.A second reason is that littering is destroying and polluting the world. You might disagree and think “who cares nothing happens when people pollute, why is it such a big deal.” Pollution is a BIG deal, when people pollute,  the world gets damaged.

One example that connects is that the more people litter the more the planet gets destroyed which causes many horrible things such as death, messing up the food chain and animals getting hurt.  One other example is that if we keep littering humans, plants, animals and other living things won’t be able to survive. So instead just pick up the litter you see and pick up after yourself too, a connection to this is the time that I saw a sea turtle with plastic wrapped around it trying to escape it but was struggling. 

A final reason is that litter on the beach can be very bad, you might wonder “why is litter on the beach so bad?”  Animals can see litter such as plastic and can accidentally eat it because you obviously can’t eat plastic and neither can animals. The plastic can get stuck in their throat and can  die. One example that shows this is that animals in the water can get trapped in the ocean with plastic wrapped around them and could suffer because of not being able to escape it especially sharks because they need to move in order to be able to breath and we need sharks they are super important! Another example that proves this is that animals can eat something toxic, like a cigaret and could die and humans can’t survive without animals, without animals the food chain would be all messed up. You should be convinced after proving all the ways litter is bad, start making a difference and pick up the litter you see so we can prevent all these bad things from happening. Simply just do NOT Litter!!!!!

My Video On Littering

click below to see my video!