Day 1 Writing Homework
Prompt : Write a complete persuasive letter based on the library demolition scenario. Your letter must include:
Correct formal letter format with all components
At least three effective rhetorical questions
Extensive use of emotive language throughout
At least one paragraph featuring painful imagery
At least one paragraph with detailed physical descriptions
A minimum of three advanced rhetorical techniques
Appropriate formal tone throughout
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- Due Date : April 16, 2025
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Holiday Writing Course Year 6 Day 1_ Persuasive Letter Writing About Library Demolition
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DAY 1 Praveen
19 Hayman St 222 Glarth St
Monday, 14th April 2025
Re: Greendale Library Demolition
Dear Councilor Thompson,
I’m Jay, a student from Greendale public school, writing to you concerning the heart wrenching and detrimental proposal to demolish the Greendale Library and build yet another money hungry soulless shopping center. Imagine the sound of a fleet of bulldozers advancing towards the rubble of our library, its once dignified facades lay in ruin shattered among the hard earth. Each brick and floorboard wrenched from its position is severing an artery along the tapestry of our community. The cacophony of rubble falling, splintering wood and glass shattering would echo through our streets leaving us yearning for lost cultural memory and intellectual potential. This is what our glorious library might become within the following months. As an anguished student who has spent many hours at the library, I find myself urged to voice my opinion. The library’s hallowed halls have been a place for me, and many others, to finish homework and study for exams. How can we justify extinguishing the flame of the library? The mere thought of a world devoid of those sacred shelves and books haunts me. I implore you to stand against this horrendous proposal and reconsider this catastrophic decision before it is irreversible.
The destruction of our library would leave a monumental void in our community. Not just me but many of my fellow peers at the Glarth St public school adore the library. It’s a haven for learning. Destroying the library would ruin the future of the dozens of students who rely on the resources of Greendale Library. Would you want to be remembered as the councilor who condemned dozens of innocent students to an uneducated future. Not everyone can afford study tools, like books and computers. The library might be the only place some students have access to resources. Unfortunately due to shifting economic conditions some may not be able to afford computers or textbooks. For environmentally conscious people, instead of cutting down trees, which is bad for the environment, people can borrow books while being environmentally friendly. This evidently shows that the library is a key community resource.
The library is also a place for people to connect with each other. Some students wait with their friends at the library and read or study before their parents pick them up. Additionally students use it to study. They can study for exams in a supportive and friendly area. For some students the library is the place where they can finish assignments and homework. They can get in last minute study time before exams. People form study groups where a few friends help each other out before exams. These groups can be crucial for boosting morale in the days counting down to the exam. Our library is like the heart of our community interconnecting us like a map of veins and arteries.
Our local library serves our community. Under the safety of the library people gather for social groups or activities. Senior citizens can learn how to use modern day technology by trying the free computers at the library. Immigrants can use the free Library’s English courses to start a new life in our beloved town. Tearing down Greendale library is ripping a gaping hole in the fabric of our community. People can gather to learn skills such as knitting or drawing. The library workers also set up activities for younger kids. Take Rhyme Time for example where toddlers have picture books read to them and sing nursery rhymes. The library fosters community spirit and brings people together. We cannot let the library turn into a shopping complex. Our library physically expands our knowledge, nourishes our spirits, and unites our community.
Our community entrusts you with the power to change our community, we hope that you will make the right decision and call off the proposal.
With heartfelt cries I hope you will take my letter into consideration.
The library is a beacon of knowledge, its presence boosting our community’s intellectual level. Community must be protected, knowledge must be protected, our library must be protected.
Yours sincerely,
Jay
19 Hayman St 222 Glarth St
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DAY 1 vinnie505
Date: 14th of April 2025
To: Penrith City Council
601 High Street, Penrith NSW 2750
From: Sender’s Office
218 Belmore Street, Penrith NSW 2750
Unacceptable Demolishment of Community Library
Dear Penrith Councillors,
I am writing as you have ignited a spark of agony perishing my soul. You have plans to destroy Penrith’s historical masterpiece; the library, and replace it with a commercial shopping centre. Is the extinction of written knowledge and fantasy really worth another market saturated with car exhaust fumes? I acknowledge that you wish to develop to fit the economic status as of right now, but disconnecting the sacred connection between the community is unacceptable. I, a student who cherishes the true value of the community library by enjoying the books that lay on the dusty shelves of our beautifully old archive of imagination, will disapprove of any attempt to stab the community’s heart. You are a talented person who understands how to puppeteer, pulling the strings to benefit our district, and doing that with recognised opinions of the people. Please recognise mine and many others, too.
The Community Library of Penrith is bound to our spirits, its architectural brilliance allowing us to embrace the pure delicacy of ancient times. To erase this deeply treasured space is to sever a bond with our neighbourhood’s soul. Beyond the now locked metal gates of the library, I reminisce about the blissful collection of wisdom I stood before, the magnificent discoveries I adventured through, and the unbreakable thread of friendship I have between me and the shelves that awaken boundless thought. The library is a guardian of knowledge, bearing no limits to imagination. The mystifying awareness that you are one to attack the kingdom of studies is unbelievable.
What will replace our iconic library? A shopping complex devoid of spirit. My tear-streaked face pleads you to stop the demolition of the core of my heart. The utter thought of our alluring library being reduced to repulsive debris shatters my foundation. My voice is paired with echoes of melancholy and other library-lovers, and I hope you receive them. It is beneficial for you to stop the plans, now, in order to keep the society’s trust in you. We respect your determination to develop our economy, but is eliminating the wings of preservation shielding knowledge essential to develop the economy?
The removal of knowledge, happiness, bonds and imagination will eventually destroy everyone’s spirit. Do you wish for the shattering of hearts and the lack of pure joy on Earth? We should embrace our lifetime through adventures of words, as the unveiling of learning makes routes for our mind, fighting the struggles with yet another shelf of discovery. I beg you to consider my request to end the demolition of knowledge, deliberately. You must know that our library is not just a regular library, it is the place of storage for education and amusement. We can not allow the past to be bulldozed in the name of profit. This is not paper and bricks — this is legacy, this is love, this is learning. I ask you again: will you be the guardian of our future or the demolisher of our past?
Respectfully,
S.C
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1 Tree St 2 Bob St
Shaylalville NSW 2305 Sharolland NSW 2305
14 April 2025
Dear Councillor Smith,
I am writing to you on behalf of the committee of young minds at Sharolland Public School, who know that the Sharolland Community Library must not be closed, not even under the strictest circumstances. What are you going to change our glorious library into? A dusty old shopping centre that no one will use at all.
Firstly, children love hanging around the library after school while waiting for their parents to pick them up. Imagine changing the retreat into a shopping centre that parents will not want their children to stay in, for shopping centres have a terrible reputation with teenagers.
Secondly, a library is a learning opportunity for children elderly and everyone in between. Children can read about an upcoming test, and the elderly can exercise their minds with puzzles, riddles and learn how to use technology. The library has story time for toddlers and young children to familiarise them with good literature. You name a book, the library has it.
Thirdly, if you put a shopping centre right next to a school, do not expect the traffic will flow smoothly. The school drop off will be clogged. The school pickup will be clogged. The pathways will be clogged. A calm, quiet area will have turned into an ongoing battle for a park. Would you do that to innocent children?
Finally, it would be horrible for small, local businesses being overshadowed by the ugly, looming, eyesore grey, concrete blob. What if those stores are the only way the owners get money? They would get stranded when their regular customers would pass without even a glance. They would prefer libraries any day.
You, Councillor Smith, are the hope. You, Councillor Smith, are the saviour. You, Councillor Smith, are the change we all urgently need. You are the only one who can stop the unspeakable horrors happening to the community. Be the change.
Yours sincerely,
Anabelle
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DAY 1 Mohamed
Dear Counseller, 33 chipmunk street
2100
14 April 2015
I’m writing because I really don’t want the library, to be demolished. That building means a lot to so many people in this area. It’s more than a place with books. It’s a quiet, safe spot where kids learn, adults get help, and people feel like they are sitting on a cloud in the sky. Tearing it down feels wrong and sad.
Why would we get rid of one of the only places where everyone is welcome? Why would we take away a space where people can go without having to buy something? Why take away books, help, and quiet from people who normally don’t get it and its their only time to get it.
Think about what the library looks like before you knock it down. The floors creak when you walk across them because so many people have been there over the decades. You can smell the old books and paper, and it makes you feel calm. The windows are big and bright, and sometimes you can see kids sitting in the corner reading or drawing (that’s what my brother does in the library). There are comfy chairs where older people sit with a newspaper or a book. Some of them are lonely and just need a place to sit calm. The computers are almost always busy since people need it for work, doing homework, or learning many new things they can’t do at home. This place is special, even if it’s not shiny or new.
It makes no sense to take this away from these people. The library helps people in so many ways. Some families need a space to relax, because their exhausted of each other, but at the library, they can read, do schoolwork, or even just sit somewhere warm. You can’t get that kind of help anywhere even if you search a million years. So where are those people supposed to go now?
I get that the city might want to build something new or make space, but please don’t do it like this. Can’t we fix up the library instead of destroying it? Once it’s gone, we won’t get it back! A new building won’t have the same feeling, or the same anything. This is about more than just walls and bookshelves, it’s about people, community, and giving everyone a fair chance.
So, we should certainly think about what this means to the people in this community. Don’t let us down and take away something we love. Keep the library!!! Save this place!
Yours Sincerely,
Mia
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DAY 1 Divya
Dear councellor Thompson
12 Elderberry street
Today I have arrived at, to my great disappointment, a library due for destruction. I have decided not to stay on the sidelined idle, but to make a stand to protect this well known beacon of knowledge. I present to you with great hope a report that will convince your councill to terminate the decree to destroy our library.
The Library has always been a place to relax. Why destroy such a humble place that gifted stress relief, helped people avoid cancer and saved hundereds of lives in the community? The people of this suburb owe the library a debt, and this is not how we will repay it. We shall not stand such a thing. Do the library a favour by promoting its long life and not tearing it to shreds with your massive bulldozers.
By providing free access to educational, news, and historical resources, libraries help keep the public informed with facts, rather than confused with fiction. They act as a hub of information, and their leaders, the librarians, torch bearers for facts. Why destroy such a peaceful and loving ecosystem of sharing knowledge and love, a place where learning information does not kill your eyes like the screens that have replaced the priceless artifects inside, the books?
Lastly, libraries preserve history. Or more importantly, the truth. Most websites are biased, Written from the eye of a person’s point of view. Books are almost always written by someone who personally experienced what had happened, not what he or her has heard. So libraries will be the only place where all information is the truth.
In conclusion, the library stands as an invaluable sanctuary of knowledge, community well-being, and historical preservation, deserving of protection rather than destruction. By advocating for its continued existence, we honor the vital role it plays in fostering informed citizens and enriching lives through access to truth and learning. We should now destroy this primary beacon of knowledge, and we should let it continually enrich students for generations to come.
Sincirely,
Jayden Lee
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