CONFLICT IS FUTILE

Encountering Conflict in 2012

THE CRUCIBLE AND THE RUGMAKER OF MAZAR-E-SHARIF

 

Reading and knowing your set texts well is vitally important to doing the best you can in SACs and the exam.

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• Include features of your chosen form of writing in your piece
• Use words from the prompt, and synonyms of those words in your piece
• Ensure links/connections to the set text are obvious, a reader looking for them should be able to notice them easily
• Show depth of knowledge in your writing/discussion, be detailed and use quotes in essays
• For this AOS make sure you do not write a text response or retell the story
• Make sure you develop whole, complete pieces of writing. You must have a beginning, middle and end or introduction, body and conclusion
• Use paragraphs, they are an important structural element of writing. Do not leave line gaps within paragraphs - they are a block of writing.
• Structure dialogue in a story carefully. Look at examples and use them as a model.

All the world's a stage

This tagxedo has been given the title 'All the world's a stage' and, as you know, when it comes to being inspired by your Context for the Creating and Presenting Outcome, you should be considering the world at large for inspiration.

Practise gathering your thoughts and responding to a prompt quickly by completing 'sound offs' to prompts and recording all your ideas in tagxedo form.

Some prompts to use:

• One conflict always contains the seeds of another
• Heroes often emerge from conflict
• Conflict can bring out either courage or cowardice in an individual
• Conflict can be a catalyst for change
• The search for truth and justice is vital in resolving conflicts

Find more prompts here...

When you complete a tagxedo remember to collect the embed code and paste it as a post to our blog. This way we can help each other expand our knowledge and understanding of the Context.

2011 STARTS HERE!

CONFLICT IS FUTILE

Conflict is futile:

The population went from 1.34 million to 700,000 throughout a eight year period. What’s the point of all the deaths?

In the book, there was a mortar raid on the city of Mazar-e-Sharif. It caused a lot of deaths and the sights that Najaf and the rest of the Afghan public saw and had felt was futile, it was unnecessary.

The revenge firing that the Americans took out on Afghanistan after 911, it did not benefit them in anyway, and it killed a lot of innocent people.

By Brandon and James

PEOPLE CAN SURVIVE CONFLICT

1. Two guards unlock the gate, then motioned me through. After 10 steps, after 100, I did not look around still expecting to be shot. Page 202, Najaf escapes the Taliban
2. “Why have I had this good fortune? Why?” page 252, Najaf wonders why he was lucky enough to survive the conflicts in his life
3. “Your mother has survived a terrible wound, but she too will survive, thank god.” Page 16

By Steph and Brad