How ToStudy For
EncounteringConflict
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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.’
‘It is difficult to remain a bystander in any situation of conflict.’
‘It is the victims of conflict who show us what is really important.’
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 practical
Change vs. Staying the same
Justice vs. InjusticePrejudice vs. Acceptance
What’s hard vs. What’s easy
Body paragraph
•Some conflict situations require people to choose between...In....What’s difficult about this choice is...
Other exampleConflict Choices:Family vs. Me
Survival vs. Giving inLoyalty vs. Self interest
Values vs. What’s practical
Change vs. Staying the same
Justice vs. InjusticePrejudice vs. Acceptance
What’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
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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/nev
er/sometimes*We
should/should not...always/nev
er/sometimes
‘The experience of conflict changes people’s priorities.’
‘It is difficult to remain a bystander in any situation of conflict.’
‘It is the victims of conflict who show us what is really important.’
•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
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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 who is an advocate of change
(The Life of Galileo)
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
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