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Persuasive speech

I disagree that homework should be banned as it helps you to be organised and reliable and you have remember when it is due. It also is like a revision sheet as it is normally about your class work. It keeps your maths, English or another subject work fresh in your mind so you can start where you left off. It also increases your work as you can learn from the questions and even a mistake. How can you increase your coding skills in ICT? By homework. Homework can also test you and keeps your brain active. It can also prepare you for GCSE exams.

Homework will also help you learn new words and increase your vocabulary. Homework will help your spelling and punctuation as you will do tasks like circle the missing grammar or put in the correct grammar. It also will improve your handwriting with writing tasks and essays. Homework will also increase your reading age and your writing speed by reading an extract and doing work on it. These will prepare you for end of year tests. Also homework applies what you already know, and can show any weaknesses and what you need to improve on. It will also increase your abilities to work on your own and use you’re initiative.

Homework during the holidays keeps your brain active and the subject fresh in your mind. Homework will give the teacher an idea on how the class is doing so the teacher knows if they should go over previous subjects or increase or decrease the subject level.

Joe’s draft: Wings

“Is the subject ready? Shall we begin testing?” said the eager young scientist standing over the body.

“Yes”

“Then begin the simulation”

I wake up feeling disorientated, white everywhere. I put my hands to my face and feel leather rubbing against my skin. I sit up and look in the mirror, my reflection seems all wrong. Then someone else walks by wearing the same medieval gold armour, and the same narrow helmet as me. I feel a sudden pain, I look back and almost faint. Wings. Pure white wings. For heaven’s sake please do not make me fly!

I see a newly painted sign. It states left for the front line and right for the armoury. A speaker announces “One question has caused a war. One question in the House of Lords caused this war. We are now at the worst stage of this war after a week of terror. The wars full potential has been unleashed. No more hiding, no more retreating and no more showing off. This is WAR!! no-one is going to hold your hand or protect you. Number one is YOU!! Protect yourself or DIE!!” Barks the amplified growl of our Regimental Sergeant Major.

I arrive at the armoury and see a banner. “Advanced Warcraft Unit” I walk around and see shelves of swords, axes and maces. I select an axe and walk further down the aisle. I see racks of shotguns, assault rifles and pistols.

“I have never seen this results before”

“What?”

“How?”

“Why?”

I also select a shotgun, the weight feels right in my hands. Suddenly I glow gold and my weapons glow with a strange blue energy which replaces the metal versions. It was like the substance of my weapons had changed completely.

I then start flying and arrive in a trench. Bullets whizz by like bees around me. A man next to me gets blown up and goes flying back behind me. I feel an impact that half turns me around. I feel pain, flow down my body in waves. I have been hit. My brain whizzers again and I feel different, animated somehow.

I stand up, my head feels like it is spinning around. I notice that I am in a place with red writing on the wall saying “subject six” I start walking around and look out of the window and see someone who look exactly like me lying on the floor in the same golden armour and in the same trench.

A voice come out over the tannoy system that said “All men go to your simulator.” I open the door and walk into my simulator as told. I suddenly feel the weight on my armour on my shoulders and my weapons are in my hand. Several minutes pass and more men drop outside the trench, I feel feint and collapse. Some armoured men run in and grab me.

“I have never seen someone resist the program before”

“What?”

“How?”

“Why?”

 

I wake up and find myself in the science lab and then I hear the noise, impenetrable. I try to walk but fall backwards, my legs are missing. I look up and see a big screen that shows some scientists at work, but then I see a glitch in what I thought was a screen but there was body after body. I turn my head and see five men walking towards me they were subjects one, two, three, four and five. All these subjects are pointing towards a gold armour. I crawl towards the armour and see that some bones are sticking out from the armours legs, I feel around the armour and feel a manganic pulse on my legs and see electric sparks from the armour’s bones. I suddenly get pulled into the armour and find that I can stand up and walk again. The armour says “Hello subject six” in an old creepy voice. As I take my sword out of the holster by my side when suddenly a gold armoured man bursts in firing his gun at me as I dodge the bullet I bring up my sword and swipe and stab, the man drops. A bullet has hit a pane of glass, shattering it all across the floor.

The subject climb out and we go to find the armoury. The other subjects get into their armour, suddenly a red portal appears and we begin to fall back. We fall back and an army of metal cross bearers shout “welcome back general” then “What? How? And Why?”

The young scientists says “repeat simulation again, he is beginning to break”

“Bring the next subject”

 

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Edutronic has been created to enhance and enrich your learning at the London Nautical School. Its purpose is to provide you with an audience for your work (or work-in-progress) and you have the choice (by altering the ‘visibility’ of your posts) of whether your work on here is visible to the world, or only to your teacher.

Anything you post here in the public domain represents you and thus it’s important that you take care with that decision, but don’t be afraid to publish your work – as the feedback you may get from people at home, your peers and people from around the internet is only likely to enhance it.

Remember you can always access your class blog and all manner of resources through the Edutronic main website – and by all means check out the sites of your peers to see what they’re getting up to as well.

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