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And one reason you need to have a plan

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Effective Study

• Don’t measure study by time passed but by goals achieved

Three ways you can respond to the context

section

• Expository essay piece

• Persuasive piece

• Creative piece

Expository EssayText Response:

*What is one text about?

*Examples from that one text.

Expository Essay:

*What is an idea about?

*Examples from that one context

text.*Example from other places

Understanding the prompt

•‘The experience of conflict changes people’s priorities.’

• What is an experience of conflict?

• Which experiences of conflict change people?

• Which people are changed by experiences of conflict?

• What is a priority and how can it be changed?

Understanding the prompt

WhoWhatHow Why

&WhoseWhich

‘The ability to compromise is important when responding to conflict.’

‘Our connection to others is fundamental to our sense of self.’

‘Reality is always shaped by those with the most power.’

Introduction

• Which question would you start by answering in your introduction?

• An experience of conflict is any situation where a person is confronted by difficulty and has to chose to go one way or the other. It means we have to think about what is really important...

Ways To Encounter:With courage, bravely, cowardly, practically, quickly, slowly, with thought and care, angrily, resiliently,

hesitantly, instinctively, through determination, alone, with others, with

dignity, hopelessly, through avoidance,

manipulatively, emotionally, with

principles

Conflict Choices:Family vs. Me

Survival vs. Giving inLoyalty vs. Self interest

Values vs. What’s practicalChange vs. Staying the same

Justice vs. InjusticePrejudice vs. Acceptance

What’s hard vs. What’s easy

Exploring:Curiously, as an

adventure, reluctantly, assertively, negatively,

with direction, haphazardly, without choice, voluntarily, anxiously, blindly,

desperately

Issues of Identity and Belonging:

Family vs. MeGroup vs. Me

Culture/traditions vs. New/different ways

Conformity vs. IndividualityMale vs. FemaleState vs. Citizen

Power vs. Inferiority

Whose:The powerful vs. The

powerlessThe group vs. The

individualMales vs. Females

The old vs. The youngThe knowing vs. The

naiveThe practical vs. The

creative

Reality:The factual truthThe easy truth

The emotional truthThe difficult truthThe possible truth

The imagined realityWhat could happen

Body paragraph

• Some conflict situations require people to choose between...In....What’s difficult about this choice is...

• One issue of identity and belonging is the choice between...

• What is reality becomes an issue when a group such as...decides that...

Other exampleConflict Choices:

Family vs. MeSurvival vs. Giving in

Loyalty vs. Self interestValues vs. What’s practical

Change vs. Staying the sameJustice vs. Injustice

Prejudice vs. AcceptanceWhat’s hard vs. What’s easy

Other examples:Current events

Historical examplesMy own personal

examplesFrom other novels/films

Using other examples

• In Paradise Road the women face a serious conflict in terms of survival. They need to choose between self interest and thinking about others. Around the world during World War II thousands of people faced the same grim decision. Everyone encountered this conflict in different ways. Many decided to do just what was good for them. For example...

• Break an essay prompt into a series of smaller questions ❏ Yes ❏ Getting There

❏ No

• Plan how I’m going to logically answer these questions ❏ Yes ❏ Getting There ❏ No

• Use examples from one text to answer the prompt ❏ Yes ❏ Getting There ❏ No

• Use other examples from elsewhere to address the prompt ❏ Yes ❏ Getting There ❏ No

Writing persuasively

• ‘The ability to compromise is important when responding to conflict.’

• We must always be able to compromise in the face of conflict.

Propositions*We must/must

not...always/never/sometimes

*We should/should not...always/never/

sometimes

‘The experience of conflict changes people’s priorities.’

‘Our connection to others is fundamental to our sense of self.’

‘Reality is always shaped by those with the most power.’

• Turn an essay prompt into something that can be argued for or against ❏ Yes ❏ Getting There ❏ No

• Start my persuasive piece in a distinctly persuasive way ❏ Yes ❏ Getting There ❏ No

• Use persuasive examples from one text ❏ Yes ❏ Getting There ❏ No

• Use other persuasive examples from elsewhere ❏ Yes ❏ Getting There ❏ No

Creative writingBad reasons for

choosing the creative option:

*I think it’s easy*I don’t want to study*I’ve got a great idea

for one story

Good reasons for choosing the creative option

*I’m confident about creative writing

*I’m prepared to practice creative writing

*I’ve got a good idea for a character and setting that’s

relevant to the context

Characters and situationsCharacter types:

*A family member who is both loyal and wants to do their own thing (The Rugmaker)

*A younger person who is part of a group and share some values but has different values to the

group (Paradise Road)*A person in a position of power who can

manipulate the facts (The Player)*A person new to a school trying to negotiate

family expectations vs. personal interests (Growing Up Asian)

Character + Scenarios

• ‘The ability to compromise is important when responding to conflict.’

• A group of people is detained at an overseas airport by security. One member of the group needs to decide how to best handle the situation.

• A character and a setting that you can write confidently about ❏ Yes ❏ Getting There ❏ No

• Take an essay prompt and develop a scenario/problem a character can face which addresses the key idea in the prompt ❏ Yes ❏ Getting There ❏ No

Three ways you can respond to the context

section

• Expository essay piece

• Persuasive piece

• Creative piece

•http://www.slideshare.net/jpinnuck/encountering-conflict

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