VCE English 2024

Course Outline – Year 11

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Unit 1, Arrea of Study 1: Outcome 1: Reading and Exploring Texts (Personal response)

The Great Gatsby, directed by Baz Luhrmann (film)

 

Unit 1, Area of Study 2: Outcome 2: Crafting Texts: Discovery

Mentor texts:

 

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

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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