This document provides guidance on different approaches to responding to a context section prompt for an exam, including expository, persuasive, and creative options. It discusses understanding the prompt, developing an introduction, using examples from the provided texts and elsewhere, and considering characters and scenarios for a creative piece. The document emphasizes breaking down the prompt into a series of questions, planning to logically answer these, and using examples to fully address what is required.

1. How

2. To
Study

3. For
For The
Context

4. 6 reasons you should
listen
This student was asked
to explain what a
mutation was in a
Biology exam

5. 6 reasons you should
listen
This student was asked
an algebra question on a
Maths exam

6. 6 reasons you should
listen
This student was asked
to represent expenses
on a Accounting exam

7. 6 reasons you should
listen
This student was asked
to expand an equation
on a Maths exam

8. 6 reasons you should
listen
This student was asked
about Arctic wildlife on
an Environment exam

9. 6 reasons you should
listen
This student was asked
an algebra question on a
Maths exam

10. Don’t end up here

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

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

14. 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

15. 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?

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

17. 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...

18. 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

19. Exploring:
Curiously, as an
adventure, reluctantly,
assertively, negatively,
with direction,
haphazardly, without
choice, voluntarily,
anxiously, blindly,
desperately
Issues of Identity and
Belonging:
Family vs. Me
Group vs. Me
Culture/traditions vs. New/
different ways
Conformity vs. Individuality
Male vs. Female
State vs. Citizen
Power vs. Inferiority

20. Whose:
The powerful vs.The
powerless
The group vs.The
individual
Males vs. Females
The old vs.The young
The knowing vs.The
naive
The practical vs.The
creative
Reality:
The factual truth
The easy truth
The emotional truth
The difficult truth
The possible truth
The imagined reality
What could happen

21. 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...

22. 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

23. 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...

24. • 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

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

27. 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.’

28. • 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

30. 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

32. 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 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)

33. 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.

34. • 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

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

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

37. Thank you...
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