The English Group

Unit 1 Areas of Study (AoS)

AoS 1: Reading and Exploring Texts

• Students read and explore one text (EAL ONLY- extracts of one text)

• Focus on personal connections with the story

• Discuss ideas and values presented by authors (plot, characters, settings, point of view, etc.)

• Develop inferential reading/viewing skills

• Understand how a text’s vocabulary and language features create meaning

• Understand how texts reflect human experiences and how stories relate to their own lives

• Explore cultural, social, and historical values in a text, comparing them to personal values

• Develop thinking and engage with ideas of others to extend understanding of texts

• Practice and develop formal essay writing skills

AoS 2: Crafting Texts

• Three “mentor texts” studied in depth (e.g. speeches, short stories, essays, podcasts, poetry, feature articles, etc.)

• Apply and extend understanding and use of imaginative, persuasive, and informative texts

• Increase awareness of situated contexts, stated purposes, and audience

• Read and engage with mentor texts that model effective writing

• Develop an understanding of how compelling texts are created (via vocabulary, text structures, language features, ideas, etc.)

• Consider how purpose, context, and audience influence and shape writing

• Discussion of what constitutes effective writing (via consideration of mentor texts)

• Use and experiment with qualities of effective writing in own work

• Engage with and expand on ideas from mentor texts and other reading to extend creativity and range when writing own texts

Assessment - Unit 1:

For English students:

Students are required to demonstrate two outcomes selected from the following:

• An analytical response to a text

• A student-created text e.g. short stories, speeches with transcripts, essays (comment, opinion, reflective, personal), podcasts with transcripts, poetry/songs, feature articles, memoirs, etc.)

• A description of writing processes

For EAL students:

Students are required to demonstrate two outcomes:

1. A personal response to a set text

• • A note-form summary of key connections and ideas within the set text

2. Two student-created texts e.g., short stories, speeches with transcripts, essays (comment, opinion, reflective, personal), podcasts with transcripts, poetry/songs, feature articles, memoirs, etc. A description of writing processes

• • A set of annotations on the student-created texts, identifying the qualities of effective writing

Unit 2 Areas of Study (AoS)

AoS 1: Reading and Exploring Texts

• Students read and explore one text (or extracts of one text- EAL only).

• Develop reading and viewing skills and deepen capacity for inferential reading and viewing

• Develop skills from Unit 1 via an exploration of a different text type

• Engage with ideas, concerns, and tensions in a text

• Recognise how vocabulary, text structures, language features and conventions, etc. create meaning in a text

• Discuss and explore how readers understand texts in context (historical context, social and cultural values)

• Extend observations into analytical and abstract explorations of the text

• Develop analytical writing about a text and build skills to discuss ideas, integrate evidence, etc. in a formal essay

AoS 2: Exploring Argument

• Students consider a range of persuasive texts (e.g. speeches, opinion and comment pieces, other texts designed to position an audience in relation to an issue, etc.)

• Consider how arguments are developed and delivered in different forms of media

• Listen, view, and read a range of texts that position an intended audience in a particular context

• Explore the structure of persuasive texts (contention, sequence of arguments, use of supporting evidence, persuasive strategies, etc.)

• Examine the language/visuals employed by the author and analyse the intended effect on the audience

• Explore elements of spoken language (e.g. intonation, volume, pace, pausing, stress) and how these can be used to support argument and affect the audience

• Analyse persuasive texts via notetaking, summaries, short answer questions, and formal, analytical writing

•  Write using evidence from the texts to support a textual analysis

• Use understanding of argument to create a point of view text for oral presentation

Assessment - Unit 2:

For English Students and for EAL, students are required to demonstrate two outcomes:

1. An analytical response to a set text

2a. An analysis of the use of argument and persuasive language and techniques in text(s)

2b. An oral presentation of a point of view text

EAL ONLY: In addition to the above, assessment may include:

• A set of annotated persuasive texts (including visual texts) identifying arguments, vocabulary, text structures, and language features

• A detailed mind map of vocabulary, text structures, language features and ideas from the set text

• A note-form summary of the key argument(s) and supporting arguments in persuasive text(s)

• An annotated visual text(s) that identifies the key persuasive techniques

Cost: $ (resources and materials)

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Unit 3 Areas of Study (AoS)

AoS 1: Reading and Responding to Texts

• Students study one text selected from the VCE text list

• Apply reading and writing strategies to critically engage with a text

• Reflect on the motivations of a text’s characters

• Analyse how authors construct meaning via vocabulary, text structures, language features, and presentation of ideas

• Explore how the historical and social context of a text influence how it is read and understood by different audiences

• Complete sustained and structured formal analytical writing about a text to develop skills to engage with and challenge ideas, using metalanguage and evidence from the text

• Form, clarify, and discuss ideas about texts

EAL ONLY: complete a listening task that explores historical, cultural, and/or social values relevant to the text

AoS 2: Creating Texts

• Three “mentor texts” studied in depth (e.g. speeches, short stories, essays, podcasts, poetry, feature articles, etc.)

• Read and engage imaginatively and critically with mentor texts

• Write effectively within identified contexts

• Expand understanding, through close reading, of how vocabulary, text structure, language features, ideas, etc. can create compelling texts

• Understand how purpose, context, and specific audiences influence and shape writing

• Work with mentor texts to inspire personal creative processes and generate ideas for own writing

• Experiment with adaption and creation of texts, demonstrating insight into ideas and using writing strategies in their texts

• Reflect on deliberate choices made in own writing

• Make connections with events and experiences in their own lives to enrich writing

Assessment- Unit 3:

For English students:

Students are required to demonstrate the outcomes through:

• An analytical response to a text in written form

• Student created text and written explanation

• A commentary reflecting on writing processes

For EAL students:

•  Analytical text response in written form

•  Listening comprehension in short answer and note form summary form

•  Two Student created texts

•  A set of annotations reflecting on writing processes

Unit 4 Areas of Study (AoS)

AoS 1: Reading and Responding to Texts

Students study one text selected from the VCE text list (different text type to Unit 3)

• Consolidate capacity to critically analyse texts

• Deepen understanding of ideas and values conveyed by texts

• Apply reading and viewing strategies to engage with a text

• Discuss and analyse how authors construct meaning in a text (via presentation of ideas, use of vocabulary, text structures, language features, etc.)

• Explore implicit and explicit values and idea presented in texts

• Recognise and explain the importance of historical context and social/cultural values in texts and analyse how these are presented

• Explain how historical context and social/cultural values can affect or position readers to read a text

• Refine skills to engage with and challenge ideas

• Use organisational structures such as formal essays, and apply metalanguage and integrate evidence when writing essays

• Test thinking, clarify ideas, and form views about a text

• Practice and extend writing about texts

AoS 2: Analysing Argument

Students consider a range of persuasive texts that debate significant national/ international issues that have been in the media since September 1st of the previous year

• View/listen to a variety of texts from the media (including print, digital, audio, audio/ visual)

• Analyse the use of argument, language, and visuals in texts

• Develop understanding of how arguments and language complement each other to position an intended audience

• Consider, for each text, the purpose, audience, context, arguments, and how written and spoken language are employed for effect

• Analyse how elements work together to influence an intended audience

• Explore and analyse structures and features of argument presented in texts

• Develop and write an analysis of persuasive texts

• Create a point of view text and present it in the form of an oral presentation (dialogue, debate, presentation etc. that suit a chosen context, purpose, and audience)

Assessment - Unit 4:

For English and EAL students:

Students are required to demonstrate two outcomes in the following:

1. An analytical response to a text in written form

2a. A written analysis of persuasive texts (print and audio/audio visual)

2b. A point of view oral presentation

Cost: $ (resources and materials)

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Contact Teacher: Ms Carolyn Dunn & Ms Eva Turewicz

Please Note

The College requires any student who studies Literature Units 1 & 2 or Units 3 & 4 to also undertake VCE English. This must be considered when selecting this subject, as this does mean that two subjects of the six subjects studied at Year 11, and two of the five studied at Year 12, will be from the English group. Students who elect to undertake two Englishes must be motivated, organised and committed to reading and responding to a greater number of texts. Students must achieve excellent results in Year 10 English to study VCE Literature.

Unit 1 Areas of Study (AoS)

• AoS 1: Reading Practices

• AoS 2: Exploration of Literary Movements and Genres

AoS 1: Reading Practices

• Students consider how language, structure, and stylistic choices are used in different literary forms and text types

• Consider print and non-print texts and reflect how form and style contribute to meaning

• Reflect on the degree to which points of view, experiences, and contexts shape interpretations of a text

• Examine literary forms, features, and language of texts

• Identify and explore textual details, including language and features, to develop a close analysis response to a text

AoS 2: Exploration of Literary Movements and Genres

• Students study at least one complete text and samples of other texts

• Explore the concerns, ideas, and conventions common to a distinctive type of literary movement/genre (e.g. modernism, epic, tragedy, magical realism, etc.)

• Explore texts from a specific movement/genre

• Identify patterns and similarities of texts within a genre or movement

• Engage with ideas shared by the texts through language, settings, narrative structures, and characterisation

Assessment - Unit 1:

Students are required to demonstrate the outcomes through a selection of:

• A close analysis of one of more selected passages

• An essay (comparative or analytical)

• Reading journal entries

• A creative response to a text(s) studied

• An oral or a written review

• A multimedia response

Unit 2 Areas of Study (AoS)

• AoS 1: Voices of Country

• AoS 2: The Text in its Context

AoS 1: Voices of Country

• Students explore the voices, perspectives, and knowledge of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander authors

• Consider the connectedness of place culture, and identity of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples, including connections to Country, consequences of colonialism, and issues of reconciliation and reclamation

• Examine representations of culture and identity in Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples’ texts

• Identify ways in which these texts present voices and perspectives that explore/ challenge assumptions arising from colonisation

• Acknowledge and reflect on a range of Australian views and values, including their own, through a text

• Consider stories about the Australian landscape and culture

AoS 2: The Text in its Context

• Students focus on a text in its historical, social, and cultural context

• Reflect on representations of a time period or culture within a text

• Explore a text to understand its point of view or what it reflects

• Identify language or views in a text that reflect a specific time period or culture and its ideas

• Understand that contextual meaning is implicitly/explicitly inscribed in a text

• Analyse language closely

Assessment- Unit 2:

Students are required to demonstrate the outcomes through a selection of:

• A close analysis of selected passages

• An essay (comparative or analytical)

• A creative response to a text(s) studied

• An oral or a written review

• A multimedia response

Cost: $ (resources and materials)

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Unit 3 Areas of Study (AoS)

• AoS 1: Adaptations and Transformations

• AoS 2: Developing Interpretations

AoS 1: Adaptations and Transformations

• Students focus on how the form of a text contributes to its meaning

• Construct a close analysis of a set text

• Reflect on how much adapting the text to a different form affects its meaning

• Compare original texts with their adaptions

• Consider how creators of adaptions emphasise or minimise viewpoints, assumptions, and ideas in the original text

AoS 2: Developing Interpretations

• Explore the different ways a text can be read and understood

• Develop, consider, and compare interpretations of a text

• Analyse how ideas, views, or values are presented in a text, and how these are endorsed or challenged by an author via literary forms, features, and language

• Consider the historical, social, and cultural context in which a text is written

• Use supplementary readings to challenge the ideas of the set text

• Develop a second interpretation of the set text, with an enhanced understanding of it

Assessment - Unit 3:

Students are required to demonstrate the outcomes through:

• A written interpretation of a text, supported by close textual analysis, using a key passage

• An analysis of how textual form influence meaning

• An initial interpretation of the text’s views and values within its historical, social and cultural context.

• A written response that compares/interweaves and analyses an initial interpretation with a subsequent interpretation, using a key moment from the text

Unit 4 Areas of Study (AoS)

• AoS 1: Creative Responses to Texts

• AoS 2: Close Analysis of Texts

AoS 1: Creative Responses to Texts

• Students construct their own creative transformations of texts

• Focus on imaginative techniques that create or recreate literary works

• Understand how a text’s meaning can change due to context and form

• Learn how authors develop representations of people and places

• Develop an understanding of voice, form, and structure

• Draw inferences from an original text to create their own writing

• Students discuss their own responses and relate to the text, discussing the purpose and context of their own creations

AoS 2: Close Analysis of Texts

• Students scrutinise the language, style, and constructions of texts

• Examine how specific passages in a text contribute to understanding of thew hole text

• Consider literary forms, features, and language

• Consider the views and values of the text

• Write expressively to develop a close analysis using detailed references to the text

Assessment - Unit 4:

Students are required to demonstrate the outcomes through:

• A creative response to a text

• A close analysis of a key passage from the original text

• A close analysis of a text, supported by an examination of textual details, based on a selection of passages

Cost: $ (resources and materials)

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Contact Teacher: Ms Carolyn Dunn