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type here -Erica 11/18/08 11:20 AM On November 4, 2008, voters in the U.S. will elect a new president, as well as 470 members of Congress. Whichever candidates are elected, they will face an array of pressing issues at home and abroad, all demanding attention and action. Where do we start? Voters can express their priorities in the voting booth,but young people also deserve to be heard. It’s your future too. What do you believe is the most urgent issue for the new President to tackle? What would you say to the candidates for the 470 seats open in Congress? What would you want the voting public to think about as they go to the polls? Your letter will be published for the candidates and the voting public to read. Can you convince them of the importance of the issue you care about? Can you move them to action on November 4…and after?

This is your template for writing the letter or persuasive essay you will be submitting to Letters to the Next President: Writing Our Future. Please complete all the areas in white. You may complete these sections in any order, and you may change or edit the information at any time up to the point where you submit your letter or essay. The information entered will be displayed on the Writing Our Future website to help readers find your essay and become interested in reading it.

Information needed for the website before you submit your persuasive piece:

Title or headline: Readers are attracted by sharp, focused titles -- like newspaper headlines. Give your piece a short, attention-getting title that conveys your main point.	IS IT REALLY THEIR FAULT??!!
Keywords: Choose up to three keywords for your piece to help readers find your piece by topic. Write your words here, separated by commas.	endangered, oil spills, change,extinct, global warming, rain forests, safety, stop it!

Summary lead:
As readers scan the website, they will get the main idea of your piece from the summary lead. Write a lead of no more than 75 words to summarize your main point and catch your readers' interest.

Oceans, tropical rain forests, and polar ice caps are all homes to many different kinds of animals, but when we cut, melt, or dirty them we are killing those thousands of animals that live there. Is there anything you can do about it??? Yes there is and maybe someday there won't be any worry about that happening. If so, that is a long time from now. Start with this...

Writer's name or pen name:
Your piece will be published under your first name and last initial, or you can use a pen name. What first name and last initial will you use?

Emma A.

Instructions for composing your persuasive piece:

Please use the white space below to respond to the Letters to the Next President: Writing Our Future prompt. You do not need to repeat the title and name that you have entered in the table above. You also do not need to begin with a greeting such as "Dear Future President" or sign your name at the end. Simply begin with the first sentence of the body of the letter and continue to the end, double-spacing between paragraphs. There is no minimum or maximum length.

As you compose your piece, remember that you can edit, change, and correct your letter until it is ready for publication and your teacher submits it. You can invite other students or adults to read your draft and to collaborate with you or give you advice about your draft. You can also use the editing tools to help you with final editing including spell-check.

great essay -Erica 11/18/08 10:50 AM

IS IT REALLY THEIR FAULT??!!

Grade: 95 Excellent work. Great details and supporting reasons -Erica Hartman 11/17/08 9:17 AM
Dear Future President,
I am Emma A. writing all the way from NJ to tell you about all the endangered animals in the world. A lot of animals that there used to be a lot of are endangered now due to humans. For example;do you know what really happens to animals during an oil spill? Some can fly away but most get stuck in the spill.Then tons of people have to go to the shore to clean everything up. It is not as easy as it seems, though. Specialists are called to scrape off all the gunk from the poor helpless animals and i think that this whole long sticky process should be changed. In fact we shouldn't even have to deal with any of it, I say you try the best you can to stop it!

    Now, you may think this is a silly cause and not as important as many others but, it is just as important.I do care if the polar bears get extinct. And to make it worse, it is all our fault! A poor polar bear is stuck on a small ice cap floating out to sea. The warmer it gets, the more the ice cap melts ,finally the polar bear is stuck in the middle of the ocean, and we all know what happens next. Also, tearing down rain forests kills all the animals that live there such as panthers, frogs, birds etc. Some of those animals are dangerous, but that doesn't mean they should have their homes destroyed so we can have paper so, my idea is that we find a way to get those animals out and into a safer place before we tear it down, ( Why not try it?) or we open more safer animal homes that way no one can enter unless agreed to and no one can cut it down.

    I know half of what I explained about in the top two paragraphs seems impossible, but I really don't believe we should just give up and let animals become extinct! I also know that there are organizations preventing this type of thing from happening, but a little help goes a long way (especially when it is from the president!).Even with all these people helping us to finally see a white tiger or polar bear in the wild one day, it is not enough. Animals are disappearing off the face of the earth and somebody should stop it! Is it really their fault, can they stop it from happening? Think about it.
                                                                                                           Thanks for your concern,
                                                                                                                             Emma A.


Great essay -Erica 11/18/08 11:57 AM
Dear Emma,
      I recommed you to add detail's that says that the animals can not survive while the humans are torturing the animals

Thanks, I'll see if I can add that on, can I read yours???? -Emma 10/23/08 10:27 AM

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