vce new texts for 2015 introduction

Introduction To new & second year Unit 3&4 English Texts

The 2015Edition

Ticking Mind

The VCE English course will change in 2016

Unit 1&2 Currently Unit 1&2 Proposed

Unit 1:1. Reading and responding2. Creating and presenting3. Using language to persuade (POV)Unit 2:1. Reading and responding2. Creating and presenting3. Using language to persuade (POV + Analysis)

Unit 1:1. Reading and creating texts - students respond analytically and creatively to texts (two)2. Analysing and presenting arguments Unit 2:1. Reading and comparing texts - students compare the presentation of ideas, themes and issues in two texts2. Analysing and presenting argument

Currently Proposed

Unit 3:1. Reading and responding2. Creating and presenting3. Using language to persuadeUnit 4:1. Reading and responding2. Creating and presenting

Unit 3:1. Reading and creating texts: On completion of this unit the student should be able to develop and justify an analytical interpretation of a selected text, and present a creative response to a different selected text.2. Analysing and presenting arguments: On completion of this unit the student should be able to analyse and compare the use of argument and persuasive language in texts that present a point of view on an issue currently debated in the media.

Unit 4:1. Reading and comparing texts: On completion of this unit the student should be able to develop a detailed comparison which analyses how two selected texts present ideas, issues and themes

2. Presenting argument: On completion of this unit the student should be able to construct a sustained and reasoned point of view on an issue currently debated in the media, and present this in oral form.

2013 Text Exam Data

Context Data

Text Selection

Novels - First Year

• Burial Rites by Hannah Kent (1) (A)

• The White Tiger by Avarind Adiga (I)

• I for Isobel by Amy Witting (1) (A)

HannahKent

2013

330 pgs

Burial Rites

• True story of Agnes Magnusdottir

• Character driven but page turner

• Use of different character perspectives

AravindAdiga 2008

276 pgs

The White Tiger

• First person/confessional

• Rags to riches

• Empathy towards protagonist

• Animal imagery

AmyWitting

1989

158 pgs

I for Isobel

• Isobel’s search for identity

• Gender

• Similar to Tirra Lirra by the River and Cat’s Eye (themes)

Novels - Second Year

• Cloudstreet by Tim Winton (2) (A)

Tim Winton

1991

426 pgs

Cloudstreet

• Much loved Australian classic

• Character driven

• Imagery and setting

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Short Stories - New

• The Thing Around Your Neck by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie (2)

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

2009

11 Stories

The Thing Around Your Neck

• Post colonial literature

• Gender theme

• Identity conflicts

Plays

• Medea by Euripides

• No Sugar by Jack Davis (2) (A)

Euripides431 B.C

44 pgs

Medea

• Short

• Polarising protagonist

• Discussion of supporting characters

• Language

Jack Davis1985

109 pgs

No Sugar

• Short

• Characters and themes

• Dramatic devices

Multimodal Texts - New

• Mabo directed by Rachel Perkins (A)(2)

• All About Eve directed by Joseph Mankiewicz (2)

• The Complete Maus by Art Spiegelman (2)

Rachel Perkins 2012

103 mins

Mabo

• Accessible

• Character relationships

• Quotable (to a degree)

• Will need to work on drawing out complexity

Mabo

JosephMackievicz 1950

138 mins

All About Eve

All About Eve

All About Eve

• Character motivation

• Characterisation (Eve, Addison DeWitt)

• Filmic techniques

• Gender

All About Eve

Art Spiegelman 1991

296 pgs

The Complete Maus

• Accessible

• Character relationships

• Visual/symbolic techniques

• Sophisticated responses

Non Fiction - New

• This Boy’s Life by Tobias Wolff (2)

Tobias Wolff1989

243 pgs

Context Texts

• A Passage To India dir. by David Lean (1)

• Night Street by Kristel Thornell (A) (2)

• Foe by J.M Coetzee (1)

• Wag The Dog dir. by Barry Levinson (2)

• The Lieutenant by Kate Grenville (1) (A)

• A Separation dir. by Asghar Farhadi (1)

• Every Man In This Village Is A Liar by Megan Stack (2)

• Wildcat Falling by Mudrooroo (1) (A)

David Lean 1984

164mins

A Passage To India

• Adela Quested

• Trying to shape physical and cultural landscapes

• Journeys / Travel Writing

Kristel Thornell 2010

239 pgs

Night Street

• An imagining of the life of Australian artist Clarice Beckett

• Being creatively/imaginatively different

• Imagination as life

J. MCoetzee 1986

157 pgs

Foe

• What is the truth when there is only one witness?

• Compare to other castaway stories

Barry Levinson 1997

97 mins

Wag The Dog

• Creating fake stories to divert attention

• Remind you of Rudd and Gillard, anyone?

• Who has the power to shape reality?

Wag The Dog

Kate Grenville 2008

302 pgs

The Lieutenant

• How failure to communicate causes conflict

AsgharFarhardi 2011

123mins

A Separation

• Set in Iran but this story could be universal

• Conflict as a series of causes and effects

• Resolutions to conflicts

• Men and women and children in conflict

Megan Stack 2010

251 pgs

Every Man In This Village Is A Liar

• Quotable

• Style

• Selected chapters/passages

• For a long time that was everything I knew... about war...that you could survive and not survive...

• I woke up in an old Pakistani sleeping bag one morning...I was too worn out and sad to get out of bed. The adrenaline had dried up in my sleep...

Mudrooroo1965

152 pgs

Wildcat Falling

• Indigenous/white identity

• The need for belonging

• Style that can be mimicked (present tense)

Patti Miller2012

291 pgs

The Mind of A Thief

• Indigenous identity

• Family and cultural identity

• What if the ancient line of Wiradjuri blood did flow in my veins? What if some of my ancestors had strode long legged through the bush, danced in fire-lit corroborees, slept under the stars for tens of thousands of years right here in this place I was born? A deep longing pulsed somewhere in the region of my heart, irrational perhaps, but irresistible.

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Books not to

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