Plastic Planet
"Plastic raincoats, plastic rain. Plastic in our hearts and brains. Long after we’ve come and gone, our plastic footprints will live on."
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Series: School Journal Level 2 November 2018
Reading year level: 4
Category: Fiction
Topics: citizenship, environment, humour, plastic, poetry, pollution, recycling, rhyme, rhythm, rubbish, sustainability, verse
Plastic Planet
Words by James Brown
Illustrations by Fraser Williamson
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School Journal Level 2 November 2018
Inside this School Journal are two articles (The Plastic-free Challenge; Tafoe O!), two stories (A Waste of Space; Baskets of Fire), one poem (Plastic Planet).
1 of 5A Waste of Space
"Warning!” said the ship’s computer. “Impact in –” Bang! Something slammed into the ship. Mia and Tane were thrown across the flight deck."
2 of 5Baskets of Fire
“Baskets of Fire” is a pakiwaitara – a traditional Māori story that explains natural phenomena or why something is the way it is.
3 of 5The Plastic-free Challenge
When the Room 5 students at Motueka South School saw a video about the Great Pacific Garbage Patch, they were inspired to take action.
4 of 5Tafoe O!
Every Sunday, a group of Tokelau adults and children meet in Wellington to pass on cultural knowledge.
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