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New texts for Unit 3&4 English 2015
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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
If you don’t like any of the books on the list...
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.
Thank you...
Books not to
study #2