A persuasive writing assignment involved students writing letters in the voice of 23 dogs and one cat — at a local shelter. The letters urged people to adopt the animals. So far, the students' work has been effective, all but four have been adopted.
Sleigh Ride is a chubby, blue-gray pitbull, and she'd been hanging around Richmond Animal Care and Control's shelter for quite awhile. But a letter from a second-grader — written on the dog's behalf — may have been the ticket home.
The letter came from a student in Kensey Jones' writing class at St. Michael's Episcopal School in Richmond, Va. It was part of a persuasive writing assignment — Jones' brainchild — that asked students to write letters in the voice of one of 24 animals — 23 dogs and one cat — at the shelter. "It was just a miraculous marketing tool to help people find those pets and fall in love with them with the stories that the kids wrote, and then take that pet home with them," Peters told NPR.
Sunday Special, a tan and white pitbull , also found his home after a second-grader wrote a letter on his behalf. He doesn't always show well, Peters said, and was very afraid of people."Hello, my name is Sunday Special," the letter began."I would love to be adopted.
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