LO: explain your opinion clearly in written form

Support your opinion with expert opinions, facts and statistics

Identify and contradict

Write a letter to your local politician to express your opinion on whether violent video games should
be banned or not

Success criteria:
● Express a clear opinion
● Support your opinion with clear reasons or arguments
● Use facts, statistics and expert opinion to support your ideas
● Use a range of sentence types and punctuation for effect
● Write in the correct genre
● Remember to quote your sources
● Aim for 150 – 250 words
If you would like some ideas to help structure your writing..

Dear

I am writing to …
I believe that…
For example

Secondly..

Another reason that

In conclusion….
Reason for Reasons against

2000 families and found that despite playing games like Call of Duty and GTA, most of the teenagers and families President Trump insists that there’s a firm link between video game violence and recent school shootings.
and parents and teachers reported that there was a positive outcome.

Seven in 10 parents say games are a positive part of children’s lives. And as research from Duke University to
Persistent daily habitual exposure to violence in video games can have short term and long term de-sensitisation to Harvard Medical School reminds us, many games offer hugely positive benefits to players, including:

violence in real life and it can affect the way you think, feel, and ultimately the way you behave," Dr Kim Le told A
► Promoting health, including exercise and physical activity.
Current Affair.
► Enhancing education and learning recall.

► Teaching valuable career skills from resource management to leading teams.

► Helping young kids develop in positive social and physical ways.

► Prompting us to communicate and address conflict more constructively.

Because the young person is still activated from the game and is still acting as though people are not really getting According to the American Psychological Association (APA), research suggests a “consistent relation between
hurt, it's simulated violence violent video game use and increases in aggressive behavior”

Sydney man Daniel Chapman is serving three years behind bars after stabbing his father to death because he ,with hundreds of academics calling findings linking playing video games to violence flawed, while
interrupted his video game. And accused Christchurch mosque shooter Brenton Tarrant referenced a number of others argue that studies show “either no relationship between playing video games and violent
popular video games in his manifesto
behavior, or an ‘insignificant’ link between the two.”