Encountering Conflict
As we are doing Analysis we also need to be doing some work on Encountering Conflict, this will stop the stress of Analysis and help prepare you for your Context Writing. NOTE to the side that your date for your Context writing has changed…one week earlier guys…!
I want you to watch the following clips. One will be Kevin Rudd’s speech to Parliament where he says ’sorry’ to the stolen generation and while the other main one is Wayne Carey’s interview with Andrew Denton there is also some others on there that are the media’s responses to their interview.
Please note that you are to watch these in S drive at school S:\ Student\Senior\De Scott English as that will cost you nothing, and use the links on the blogs at home.
As you are watching I want you to list down any words that you think will be useful for writing under the theme ‘encountering conflict’. You are also to look at the ways in which the types of conflict they are referring to are ‘encountered’ by everyone they mention.
http://www.abc.net.au/tv/enoughrope/video/default.htm?program=enoughrope&pres=20080331&story=1 (Denton with Wayne Carey)
http://video.google.com.au:80/videoplay?docid=-1837691888335307622&q=kevin+rudd+sorry+speech&total=22&start=0&num=10&so=0&type=search&plindex=6 (Kevin Rudd in Parliament).
http://video.google.com.au/videoplay?docid=8330437847529003524&q=wayne+carey&total=1095&start=0&num=10&so=0&type=search&plindex=1 (media response to Denton interview).
Once you have watched these and listed some words down, you are to hop on the blog and list 6 of your best words so that we can create ‘a bunch of words’ together. After you list your words, in one sentence you are to state how Kevin Rudd’s apology and Wayne Carey are good examples to use for the theme ‘encountering conflict’. We will be looking at these interview further in class but for now we are just building a word bank and becoming familiar with them.
Euphemisms are also excellent to use in your writing see if you can add one each to the blog site as well that we can use in Encountering Conflict. A good site for looking at these:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Euphemism#Common_examples
Your homework for today is that you are to find one newspaper article or picture each that you think brings up some form of conflict. You may do this on the computer using the College’s Issues research or through hard copies. In our following double you are going to present your article or picture to the class in a persuasive manner suitable to your article or picture..eg. a speech to a group of people, a letter to the editor. Remember to use some persuassive techniques and a ‘bunch’ of new words we have just learnt that relates to conflict and encountering.
Scotty
