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Literature is a great option for those who enjoy English and are looking for an additional challenge.
Year 10 English Literature
Year 10 English Literature
There is great power in stories. Stories communicate our humanity and our connectedness. Characters, plot lines, language setting and poetry all communicate our humanity in vivid and often deeply personal and communally satisfying ways. Literature is like a doorway into loving life more deeply. Literature is a great option for those who enjoy English and are looking for an additional challenge.
TOPICS: • Poetry • Novel study
Unit 1 Literature
Unit 1 Literature
UNIT 1: APPROACHES TO LITERATURE
The first unit of VCE Literature focusses on developing student’s understanding of how texts function as representation of human experiences. They will analyse the features of a text and how the choices made by the author in regards to the text’s form, style and language has been considered and used to create meaning. Perhaps most importantly, students will develop a critical awareness of how their own views and values may influence the reading of a text. Students will respond creatively, critically and reflectively to the ideas and concerns presented in the texts and become familiar and comfortable with key terms, concepts and approaches that will put them in good stead for further studies in literature.
AREAS OF STUDY:
• Reading practices
• Ideas and concerns in texts
Unit 2 Literature
Unit 2 Literature
UNIT 2: CONTEXT AND CONNECTIONS
Where Unit 1 focused on their own connections and responses to texts, Unit 2 widens the scope for students to explore how they then connect these ideas with the wider world both historically and in the present day. They consolidate their ability to examine how their own culture and the culture or contexts of texts can influence their own interpretations and also how this can result in different understandings. Students consider connections between texts and will craft analytical responses based on their close reading and discussions.
AREAS OF STUDY:
• The text, the reader and their contexts
• Exploring connections between texts
Unit 3 & 4 Literature
Unit 3 & 4 Literature
UNIT 3: FORM AND TRANSFORMATION
In Unit 3, students will look at how the form of a text (whether its presented as a play, a poem or a series of letters) affects its meaning. They gain an understanding of how authors make decisions about the way they construct and present their texts and how the meaning of texts can change when the form is transformed or adapted. Students also consider how the perspectives of the texts can change when the form is altered. Drawing on their study of adaptations and transformations, students will develop creative responses to texts with a focus on communicating ideas in both written and oral forms.
AREAS OF STUDY:
• Adaptations and transformations
• Creative responses to texts
UNIT 4: INTERPRETING TEXTS
In this unit, students develop critical and analytic responses to
texts. They consider how their own present context influences the way they understand and interpret the ideas explored in a text. They will also look at how literary criticisms (such as reviews, articles or speeches on the texts) inform both the reading and writing of texts. Through close text analysis, students will develop their own interpretations and present them using the text to support their ideas.
AREAS OF STUDY:
• Literary perspectives
• Close analysis
For further information please refer to page 87 of the St. Joseph's College Senior School Subject Information Handbook.
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