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 350 – 500 words.
Your options are many and varied.
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.
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?
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.
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 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 350 – 500 words.
Your options are many and varied.
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.
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?
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.
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.