Encountering Conflict Practice Prompts

Through the year if we find any interesting prompts or essay questions we’ll post them year for you to use as practice writing. Here’s two on the ‘Encountering Conflict’ context that one school recently used for its Unit 3 SAC.
Choose ONE of the following two prompts to write a Creating and Presenting essay. You may [...]

Crucible Resource (from Shmoop)

Here at the EnglishBook we don’t really tend to highly endorse the study guides that are available on single texts, especially those of the generic USA variety designed to help college kids with their SATs or something.
But, they play a part, and can be useful at times, when you’re checking your knowledge, refreshing your understanding [...]

Getting into the heads and hearts of characters

“Above all, I wanted to know the individuals, to get into their heads and their hearts. In all their variety of personalities, they must have been like [...]

In the Context (of the kiddie pool …)

In case you can’t remember being in it, this is a kiddies’ pool. One of. It was a lot of fun. When you were a kid.
Now (hopefully!) … it takes more to amuse you. Deeper water. Bigger pools. More sophisticated toys, maybe. Perhaps the company matters more. Or location. Or the weather. Or [...]

Walking the Dog

Students studying Martin Flanagan’s book The Line for the ‘Encountering Conflict’ context for AOS2 might be interested to find that Flanagan has just begun a regular blog at the AGE HERE.
Could be worth keeping an eye on it as the year develops.
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