Recently, we have been looking at a photo that links to a story about a king giving his children a pet dragon for their 5th birthday. Even though he knew the risks of having a dragon in the kingdom, it would help the children one day. This has made us think of the question: ‘Is it ok to gift someone something dangerous, even if it could help them one day?’

No one can deny the risks of having a dragon as a pet. They have super sharp teeth to eat you with. They are fire breathing to burn you with, and most of all to burn the kingdom with! Plus, they might take over the whole world and make the world infested with dragons. Who wants that? Not me. It could help your life, but catastrophic impacts can happen at any time, anywhere. Even weapons, what if you accidentally throw it, and kill people? What if you use it for the bad? What if you’re swinging it around, and demolish the kingdom’s population? That would be terrible. And why you should not gift someone something dangerous.

To be honest, it does not make sense to gift someone something dangerous: you wouldn’t know how to use it. It does not come with instructions! Then there is technically no use for it. It would just be laying there waiting for someone to use it like that’s going to happen. Plus, what if someone steals it, and uses it against you, not like you have another weapon or something you can use to retrieve it back. Plus, a lot of accidents can happen: such as walking around with it without a care in the world, not realising it is killing people behind you. Why push your luck?

This makes me come to the conclusion that gifting someone something dangerous, even if it could help them one day, is a bad idea. Also, who wants something dangerous anyway, a lot of bad things could happen.

Well done Alice. A well-written discussion text on the argument in hand. You make very clear points, backed up with evidence to ensure your reader that you are standing by your opinion. You have used some very powerful word choices to engage the reader and you have experimented with the Y6 sentence types.