1. The excerpt from “The Girl Who Silenced the World for Five Minutes” which is a fact is:
“All this [destruction] is happening before our eyes. . .”
2. The excerpt from “The Girl Who Silenced the World for Five Minutes” which expresses an opinion is:
“I wonder if they will even exist for my children”
3. The excerpt from “The Girl Who Silenced the World for Five Minutes” which is a fact is:
“. . . we all share the same air, water, and soil. . .”
4. The excerpt from “The Girl Who Silenced the World for Five Minutes” which is a fact is:
“. . . a few years ago we found the fish full of cancers.”
In 1979, Severn Cullis-Suzuki who was nine years of age founded the Environmental Children's Organization along with her friends. She gave a speech at the United Nations Earth Summit in Brazil in 1992. She encouraged children to get involved in the issues related to the environment and fight for the safety of it. She pleads the adults to mean what they say. She urges her will to participate in the movement and says that even children can be a part of the revolutions.
