This document provides guidance on how to effectively study for exams. It discusses focusing on achieving study goals rather than time spent studying. It also outlines three approaches for responding to exam prompts: an expository essay using examples from the text; a persuasive piece developing an argument; or a creative piece generating a character-based scenario. The document provides tips for each approach, such as breaking down the prompt into questions, using examples, and developing relevant characters and settings.

1. How To
Study For
Encountering
Conflict

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8. Don’t end up here

9. And one reason you
need to have a plan
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10. Effective Study
• Don’t measure study by time passed but by
goals achieved

11. Three ways you can
respond to the context
section
• Expository essay piece
• Persuasive piece
• Creative piece

12. Expository Essay
Text 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

13. 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?

14. Understanding the
prompt
Who
What
How
Why
&
Whose
Which
‘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.’

15. 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...

16. 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 in
Loyalty vs. Self interest
Values vs. What’s practical
Change vs. Staying the same
Justice vs. Injustice
Prejudice vs. Acceptance
What’s hard vs. What’s easy

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

18. Other example
Conflict Choices:
Family vs. Me
Survival vs. Giving in
Loyalty vs. Self interest
Values vs. What’s practical
Change vs. Staying the same
Justice vs. Injustice
Prejudice vs. Acceptance
What’s hard vs. What’s easy
Other examples:
Current events
Historical examples
My own personal
examples
From other novels/films

19. 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 duringWorld
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...

20. • 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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22. Writing persuasively
• ‘The ability to compromise is important when
responding to conflict.’
• We must always be able to compromise in
the face of conflict.

23. Propositions
*We must/must
not...always/never/so
metimes
*We should/should
not...always/never/so
metimes
‘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.’

24. • 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❏ ❏ ❏

26. Creative writing
Bad 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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28. Characters and
situations
Character 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)

29. 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.

30. • 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❏
GettingThere No❏ ❏

31. Three ways you can
respond to the context
section
• Expository essay piece
• Persuasive piece
• Creative piece

32. Thank you...
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