OMAGH
Well we have all watched the film now and regardless of what you think about it you now have to respond to it. So please make sure that you are aware of the history of Ireland or you never really will grasp the political and personal conflict involved.
Make yourself become familiar with all of the terms used in the film and start creating a ‘bunch’ of words to do with ‘encountering’ and ‘conflict’
These are the ‘BIG IDEAS’ you are about to work with under our context writing.
· CONFLICTS INVOLVE A CLASH OF IDEAS, INTERESTS AND EXPECTATIONS
· PEOPLE’S RESPONSES TO CONFLICT VARY
· CONFLICT OCCURS BETWEEN THE POWERFUL AND THE POWERLESS
· CONFLICT MAY BE DIFFICULT TO RESOLVE
· CONFLICT CAN BE A CATALYST FOR CHANGE
You will be expected to understand and write about not only OMAGH under these headings but also to think of outside sources that suit these ‘big ideas’ as well. We will go through some in class, but if you want to end up with good scores you will extend yourselves and start finding news/history/pictorial articles of your own to include in all your writing.
Each week we will be doing lots of writing and discussing especially of the ‘Big Ideas’, but only looking at doing expository and persuasive writing for your first SAC.
So start collecting as much information as you can that links to the ‘big ideas’ above.
Scotty.
