Prompt 1: One single voice can represent many in times of conflict.
Your task is to respond in an expository, persuasive or imaginative way to the selected prompt. Use a protest
song as the basis of your response. Aim to write 800-900 words.
What is absolutely essential is that your response has a sense of purpose. As a reader, I need to be made aware of the situation of conflict; the damaging consequences of the conflict; and the way that as an individual I should respond to this situation of conflict.
Your options are many and varied. Some ideas:
IMAGINATIVE : You could write about a time when you were the 'one single voice' (or when you tried to be). This approach may be best tackled as an imaginative response written in the first person. It would require you to shape lived experience into fiction. Of course you will need to make use of the protest song in some way. The lyrics in the song may reflect or comment on your encounter with conflict. The lyrics could become part of your text - even if only as a preface.
EXPOSITORY: You could write about the protest song that you have selected in an expository way. Move beyond what you have discovered from googling the song. Tell the story of the 'one single voice' that is the song. The voice speaking out against an injustice. The voice calling for change. You could tell the story behind the song. What situation of conflict compelled the lyricist to write the song?
PERSUASIVE: You could write in a persuasive way. Write an opinion piece about the injustice that is core to the protest song that you have selected. In this case, you would become the 'one single voice' deciding to represent your rights and the rights of others.
Prompt 2: 'The differences between us are often the cause of conflict.'
What are the differences between us? What are the differences that cause conflict?
Sex, race, religious beliefs, ambitions, political beliefs, wealth and status, education, opinion...
Use one or two protest songs as the basis for your response. How does the song explore one of these differences? Explore how these differences are often the cause of conflict...misunderstanding, lack of empathy, oppression of one over another, corruption, exploitation...
This piece should vary from the first. Once again, your options are many.
You may use other stimulus material to inform your response - references to another song, a poem, a novel, a film to explore your idea.
Style and form? Purpose? Audience? Language choices?
Keep your writing clear and focused.
Aim to write between 800 - 900 words.
Some ideas:
Persuasive - Use your chosen song to craft:
A letter to the editor - launching a protest of your own - what is the difference that is creating conflict?
Think of an issue in our contemporary society about which you would like to protest. Review the features of a Letter to the Editor in your media textbook. Write a letter to the editor, arguing your point of view on how Australia should respond to this issue or against the way it is currently being dealt with.
A speech - rousing support and raising awareness of an issue of exploitation - uniting people against a greedy, corrupt leadership.
An opinion piece - an informative piece that explores an issue of conflict that has emerged from difference.
A letter - voicing concerns about conflict that has come out of a percieved or very real difference.
Expository - Use your chosen song to craft:
A formal essay - briefly discussing and analysing the central ideas of the prompt -the messages and meaning behind the lyrics. Research the issue, the historical background from which the song was born.
A comparative piece - analysing and comparing the messages of a song, poem, novel, scene from a film that focus on a specific difference being at the heart of conflict.
Imaginative - Use your chosen song to craft:
A descriptive narrative - describe, using imagery, metaphor and other literary device to craft a piece that describes a situation where a difference has been at the heart of conflict. Consider - Character? Setting? Time?
A script - script a conversation between two people exploring the idea. Consider character? Setting? Time?
Two letters, two times, two people - same conflict, different times.
A monologue - a single character reflects on a situation - offers perspective, an original voice.
Your task is to respond in an expository, persuasive or imaginative way to the selected prompt. Use a protest
song as the basis of your response. Aim to write 800-900 words.
What is absolutely essential is that your response has a sense of purpose. As a reader, I need to be made aware of the situation of conflict; the damaging consequences of the conflict; and the way that as an individual I should respond to this situation of conflict.
Your options are many and varied. Some ideas:
IMAGINATIVE : You could write about a time when you were the 'one single voice' (or when you tried to be). This approach may be best tackled as an imaginative response written in the first person. It would require you to shape lived experience into fiction. Of course you will need to make use of the protest song in some way. The lyrics in the song may reflect or comment on your encounter with conflict. The lyrics could become part of your text - even if only as a preface.
EXPOSITORY: You could write about the protest song that you have selected in an expository way. Move beyond what you have discovered from googling the song. Tell the story of the 'one single voice' that is the song. The voice speaking out against an injustice. The voice calling for change. You could tell the story behind the song. What situation of conflict compelled the lyricist to write the song?
PERSUASIVE: You could write in a persuasive way. Write an opinion piece about the injustice that is core to the protest song that you have selected. In this case, you would become the 'one single voice' deciding to represent your rights and the rights of others.
Prompt 2: 'The differences between us are often the cause of conflict.'
What are the differences between us? What are the differences that cause conflict?
Sex, race, religious beliefs, ambitions, political beliefs, wealth and status, education, opinion...
Use one or two protest songs as the basis for your response. How does the song explore one of these differences? Explore how these differences are often the cause of conflict...misunderstanding, lack of empathy, oppression of one over another, corruption, exploitation...
This piece should vary from the first. Once again, your options are many.
You may use other stimulus material to inform your response - references to another song, a poem, a novel, a film to explore your idea.
Style and form? Purpose? Audience? Language choices?
Keep your writing clear and focused.
Aim to write between 800 - 900 words.
Some ideas:
Persuasive - Use your chosen song to craft:
A letter to the editor - launching a protest of your own - what is the difference that is creating conflict?
Think of an issue in our contemporary society about which you would like to protest. Review the features of a Letter to the Editor in your media textbook. Write a letter to the editor, arguing your point of view on how Australia should respond to this issue or against the way it is currently being dealt with.
A speech - rousing support and raising awareness of an issue of exploitation - uniting people against a greedy, corrupt leadership.
An opinion piece - an informative piece that explores an issue of conflict that has emerged from difference.
A letter - voicing concerns about conflict that has come out of a percieved or very real difference.
Expository - Use your chosen song to craft:
A formal essay - briefly discussing and analysing the central ideas of the prompt -the messages and meaning behind the lyrics. Research the issue, the historical background from which the song was born.
A comparative piece - analysing and comparing the messages of a song, poem, novel, scene from a film that focus on a specific difference being at the heart of conflict.
Imaginative - Use your chosen song to craft:
A descriptive narrative - describe, using imagery, metaphor and other literary device to craft a piece that describes a situation where a difference has been at the heart of conflict. Consider - Character? Setting? Time?
A script - script a conversation between two people exploring the idea. Consider character? Setting? Time?
Two letters, two times, two people - same conflict, different times.
A monologue - a single character reflects on a situation - offers perspective, an original voice.