Ninth grade students in Stephanie Hurt’s English class at Brodhead High School have participated in the National Writing Project’s College, Career, and Community-Ready Writer’s Program (C3WP) all year. Students learned to consider multiple perspectives around an issue and to write evidence-based arguments asking for change. For their final argument, students chose an issue they care about, researched the conversation surrounding the issue, and wrote an evidence-based letter to a real audience, such as these letters to the editor.
From Makaylee Blum
Brodhead High School
To the editor:
As many people may know what recycling is, do they know that there are many different types? My guess is probably not. Composting is a very underrated version of recycling, people may not even know that composting is a type of recycling, they probably think it’s something that people rarely do. “28% of all U.S. cropland is eroding so fast that the long-term productivity of the soil cannot be maintained, adding organic matter via compost to soil is critical.” (Smartasset, The Economics) Composting is a mixture of various decaying organic substances used for fertilizing soil and is made up of microscopic bacteria and fungi, along with earthworms, crickets, and many other life forms.
It’s a great way to fertilize soil and make it healthy. We could change the fact that people don’t know what composting is, by making people more aware of composting, and learning how to do it right.
People could say why is composting needed? It enriches soil, helping retain moisture and suppress plant diseases and pests. (US EPA. (2019). Composting) Composting is a natural process of recycling organic material such as leaves and vegetable scraps into a rich soil. And it also speeds up the natural decay of organic material.
The argument of composting here is that everyone can compost, they just choose not to.
When you compost you now know what to compost. And you also know how to do it. After reading how to do it, and what to put in it. There should be no more argument about composting.
Composting should be more known around communities, and towns.
