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Alice Boghosian

Class 6O – Library writing project

Thursday 28 January 2021

Dear Ms Greta Thunberg, Sweden

Dear Greta Thunberg,

Dear Greta,

I’m going to call you Greta because this whole ‘write to your hero’ project that Mrs Malouf, our school librarian, has given us feels like something kids would have done in the olden days – who writes letters any more? Does anyone read them? We’re both teenagers – well, technically, you’re a teenager and I’m going to be a teenager soon – so it seems silly to write to you in such an old-fashioned way.

At least Mrs Malouf’s finally agreed to turn this writing assignment into emails . . .

I hope it’s okay that I call you Greta. Calling you Ms Thunberg (which Mrs Malouf recommended) doesn’t seem right.

I didn’t get to choose you, Greta, and I’m not saying you’re not a hero of mine – it’s just that I don’t know enough about you to call you a hero. And don’t take this the wrong way, but, on my hero list, I’m not sure that you’d be in the Top 3. My Top 3 actually looks like this:

1. Queenie Q – the social media queen who is only 14 and has 22 million followers and posts pictures of her puppy dressed up in costumes
2. Maddy Proud – captain of my favourite netball team, the Sydney Swifts
3. Taylor Swift – because she’s Taylor Swift, okay?

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