Political -- Having to do with or relating to politics 

Activism -- The policy or action of using vigorous campaigning to bring about political or social change 

Adolescent -- A person from the age of 13-18 

 

Is it possible 

That kids are making up for 

The adult's mistakes
 

https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2019/03/01/how-donald-trump-helped-turn-teenage-girls-into-political-activists/?utm_term=.135150de8470

    

The main idea from this article is that kids have more power than they think they have in the world. The article is about how an introverted girl started a worldwide climate change movement involving kids. One supporting detail is that the article said, "She has been lauded at the UN," which means that kids can become leaders in movements and effect politicians. Additionally, the girl's dad said, "If this can happen, anything can happen," regarding her actions, which implies any kid could eventually start a large movement if they tried hard enough. Furthermore, the article says, "nobody has proved more effective at that over the past eight months than Thunberg," regarding pressuring politicians to act. This means that out of all of the worldwide climate groups a kid has been the most successful. This evidence proves the theme because it all shows that kids can do more than they think they can and change the world. 

Lauded: To be highly praised

Dissuade: To persuade someone to not do something 

Introverted: A very shy person that is not very social

Jaded: To become unimportant after occurring or having too much of something

 

Teen activism will encourage all to be heard. 

They will press their issues to all.
The world will be more aware of their word.

For they will not let others be their downfall. 

 https://www.theguardian.com/world/2019/mar/11/greta-thunberg-schoolgirl-climate-change-warrior-some-people-can-let-things-go-i-cant 

  

Environmental: Something relating to nature or the earth. 

Plaintiff: A person who brings a case against someone else in court. 

Deforestation: Removal of a forest, animals, habitats, ect. 

Imploring: Being desperate 

 

Teens are making a new frame for the world, 
Helping bring attention to problems. 
Skipping school, standing in streets, 
I can assure you that they do all of them. 
All to raise attention to a problem, 
People don’t think can be solved. 
More people should be helping, 
Because those problems could be resolved. 
Other people aren’t doing anything, 
When they could be helping us all. 
Helping resolve the world’s problems, 
Without these people we would fall. 

 

Central Idea

 

 I think that the central idea is  that more teens like these 14 are appearing all over the world to change it for the better through social media’s, interviews, and starting conversations. 

 

Pieces of Evidence

 

“ Young people have often been at the forefront of social movements, but in 2018 they dominated social media conversations, news coverage, forced politicians to respond, and made headlines when they voted at historic rates. An exit poll showed about 31 percent of people aged 18 to 29 voted in the midterms, up from 2014's 21 percent,” and 

“Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School students made headlines for months after the February shooting in Parkland. They began by calling for gun control, and then the floodgates opened. As they organized rallies, walkouts, a voting tour, celebrity partnerships (Cc: Mark Ruffalo), and get out the vote campaigns under the banner March For Our Lives, young people across the country made their voices heard,” show that these teens aren’t just making headlines, there changing the world.

 Mari Copeny changed the world at eight when “She brought awareness to the water crisis in Flint when she wrote a letter to President Obama. She was only 8-years-old at the time.” Many teens have already changed the world for the better, you can too, you make the world different, if you explain your ideas, they may also change the world.

 

Words

 

Volunteerism: the use or involvement of volunteer labor, especially in community services.

Solidarity: unity or agreement of feeling or action, especially among individuals with a common interest; mutual support within a group.

Advocating: publicly recommend or support.

Awareness: knowledge or perception of a situation or fact.

Marginalized: (of a person, group, or concept) treated as insignificant or peripheral.

Indigenous: originating or occurring naturally in a particular place; native.

 

Poem

 

The present is being changed by our future, kids and teens find way to change a world that yet lies in the hands of its parent generation, some say too fast, others, too slow,

The present is being changed by our future, kids are learning new ways to walk, talk, explore, find, retrieve, and learn, the kids may be too young, too nerdy, or too different but it is our future

The present is being changed in our future, not by the ways we think for some time in the future we can thank our current future like the years before, in the future, our future will change the future

The present is being changed by our future, some too early, some too late, some at rapid speeds, some at slower speeds, yet the present is being changed by our future like the generation before, and before that, and before that

The present is being changed by our future.