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Every child has the right to learn

Here are some relevant links to creating an opinion paragraph on the right to education for every child:

Every child has the right to go to school and learn

Fund 12 years of education for girls around the world

Malala’s speech at the United Nations

Using Pronouns Clearly

Here are some practice links for using pronouns:

Personal pronouns

Possessive pronouns

Reflexive pronouns

Martin Luther King Jr’s open letter from Birmingham Jail

This letter came to be known as ‘The Negro is Your Brother’. It was written by Martin Luther King to fellow clergymen while he was in jail for protesting against racism and racial segregation in Birmingham, Alabama.

Key statements: “Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere”; “Anyone who lives inside the United States can never be considered an outsider anywhere within its bounds.”

“Letter from a Birmingham Jail [King, Jr.]”

Mahatma Gandhi’s advice to Hitler

An open letter to Hitler by Mahatma Gandhi, urging him to avoid the war and suffering that seemed inevitable at the time leading up to World War II.

As at Wardha, C. P., INDIA,
July 23, 1939

HERR HITLER,
BERLIN,
GERMANY

DEAR FRIEND,

Friends have been urging me to write to you for the sake of humanity. But I have resisted their request, because of the feeling that any letter from me would be an impertinence. Something tells me that I must not calculate and that I must make my appeal for whatever it may be worth.

It is quite clear that you are today the one person in the world who can prevent a war which may reduce humanity to a savage state. Must you pay that price for an object however worthy it may appear to you to be? Will you listen to the appeal of one who has deliberately shunned the method of war not without considerable success? Any way I anticipate your forgiveness, if I have erred in writing to you.

I remain,
Your sincere friend,
M. K. Gandhi

An Open Letter From a Teenager to High School Teachers Everywhere

The following open letter is by Naomi DeLaet, a freshman at Plainwell High School in Michigan, USA.

Dear World,

Please stop telling us that high school is going to be the best four years of our lives.

It’s not.

An Open Letter to My Favorite Teacher

A letter by Jordan Boles, 2015.

To my very favorite teacher,

It’s funny how large of an impression our instructors can leave upon our lives. Sure, you taught me facts, you taught me how to study, and you taught me how to stay organized. However, you also taught me other, much more important things. You taught me to love learning. You never gave up on me, or my classmates, regardless of how frustrating we could be. You always took a deep breath and pushed forward because you knew that one day the work you did would make a difference.