Mrs. Ellis’s seventh and eighth grade English classes have been writing a persuasive essay on the pros and cons of playing video games. Here are a few of the students’ work.



Persuasive essay

Playing video games is not bad for kids. They can teach us hand- eye-coordination. Video games can also be educational. They can teach how to strategize. Video games can be a positive way to have fun.

Video games can help you with your hand-eye-coordination. When you use a game controller, you are learning how to do two things at once. You are looking at the screen and pushing the buttons on the controller at the same time. This can help kids so they can have better hand-eye-coordination when they play sports. Hand-eye-coordination is one of the good things video games can help kids with.

Video games can also be educational. They can teach kids how to read, spell, and sometimes you can learn how to play sports. Most people say that video games are bad because of the violence, but if parents would look at the ratings on the game, then they would not have to worry about the kids showing violence. Video games can also teach people in the war how to protect themselves. Video games can be educational not just all violence.

Another thing that video games are good for is to strategize. There are puzzles that you can play on the computer and other thinking games. Sudoku is becoming the most popular thinking game for a computer. Battleship, Chess, and Checkers are other strategizing games that you can play on the computer. Strategizing is a great way to have fun and increase your thinking skills.

Video games don’t have to be bad or have violence to be interesting. There are plenty of video names out there that are run and can increase your hand-eye-coordination, strategizing skills, and can be educational. Video games are a great way to have fun.



Video games – are

they educational or are they unhealthy?

Are video games educational or unhealthy? They are unhealthy for the mind and the body. They’re unhealthy for the mind because most of the time a teen chooses a violence game rather than a good one. Since they choose a violent game, it fills their head with junk, and all they can think about is that specific game. They think that since they can do this in the game, they can do it out in the real world. For example, you can shoot every person in a war game and never die. Then they think they should or can go into the military and do just that or something close to it. But you can’t do that. Also, video games are unhealthy because the teens don’t get enough sleep, become lazy, and spend money on games.

Teens don’t get enough sleep when they play video games. It is because they stay up late in the night playing their game trying to beat it. The consequence of it is that they become tired in school and their grades drop. They don’t pay attention, and all they think and talk about are video games. It’s hard to pay attention and get good grades when you have your newly bought video game. Also, a teen might not even do their homework because as soon as they get home, they pop open a bag of Doritos, put in the game, and start playing. This is very unhealthy for anybody.

When a teen plays a video game they become lazy. Like I said, they pop open a bag of Doritos, put in a game, and start playing. Also, they won’t do anything. They just stay in front of the T.V. doing nothing. They won’t hang with friends, play sports, or spend time with family, when they are asked to help around the house, they don’t do it. They soon become fat and obsessed with their games.

Every time a teen gets an allowance, they might spend all their money on video games. They may even start using work money and holiday money for a game. The teen even may be wanting to go to college, but he can’t (or she) because all of the money is going to pay for video games. Then when they reach graduation, they don’t have anymore money so that they can’t go to college. They probably end up having very poor jobs and little money to live on.

As you can see, playing video games is unhealthy. You won’t get enough sleep, you’ll become lazy, and your money will be gone. You won’t get sleep because of the video game. Teens become lazy because of video games, and they spend all their money on video games. Everything that is important is what I listed. That is why video games are unhealthy.