VCE English 2025
Course Outline – Year 11
Year 11 Course Overview – 2025
Unit 1, Area of Study 1: Outcome 1: Reading and Exploring Texts (Personal response)
The Great Gatsby, directed by Baz Luhrmann
Unit 1, Area of Study 2: Outcome 2: Crafting Texts: Dreams and Aspirations
Mentor texts: TBC
Unit 2, Area of Study 1: Outcome 1: Reading and Exploring Texts
Station Eleven, Emily St John Mandel (novel)
Unit 2, Area of Study 2: Outcome 2: Exploring Argument
- Argument Analysis
- Oral presentation
Course Outline – Year 12
Year 12 Course Overview – 2025
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Area of Study 1: Reading and Responding to Texts
Unit 3: Oedipus the King, Sophocles (play)
Unit 4: We have Always Lived in the Castle, Shirley Jackson (novel)
Area of Study 2: Creating Texts/Analysing Argument
Unit 3: Framework: Writing about Protest:
- Harrison Bergeron, Kurt Vonnegut
- Freedom or Death, Emmeline Pankhurst
- Friday Essay, Mark Gillepsi
Unit 4: Analysing Argument
- Selected media texts
- Oral presentation