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Don’t end up here
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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