vce new texts for 2015 introduction
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New texts for Unit 3&4 English 2015TRANSCRIPT
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Introduction To new & second year Unit 3&4 English Texts
The 2015Edition
Ticking Mind
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The VCE English course will change in 2016
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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
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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.
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2013 Text Exam Data
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Context Data
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Text Selection
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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)
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HannahKent
2013
330 pgs
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Burial Rites
• True story of Agnes Magnusdottir
• Character driven but page turner
• Use of different character perspectives
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AravindAdiga 2008
276 pgs
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The White Tiger
• First person/confessional
• Rags to riches
• Empathy towards protagonist
• Animal imagery
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AmyWitting
1989
158 pgs
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I for Isobel
• Isobel’s search for identity
• Gender
• Similar to Tirra Lirra by the River and Cat’s Eye (themes)
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Novels - Second Year
• Cloudstreet by Tim Winton (2) (A)
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Tim Winton
1991
426 pgs
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Cloudstreet
• Much loved Australian classic
• Character driven
• Imagery and setting
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If you don’t like any of the books on the list...
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Short Stories - New
• The Thing Around Your Neck by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie (2)
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Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
2009
11 Stories
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The Thing Around Your Neck
• Post colonial literature
• Gender theme
• Identity conflicts
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Plays
• Medea by Euripides
• No Sugar by Jack Davis (2) (A)
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Euripides431 B.C
44 pgs
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Medea
• Short
• Polarising protagonist
• Discussion of supporting characters
• Language
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Jack Davis1985
109 pgs
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No Sugar
• Short
• Characters and themes
• Dramatic devices
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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)
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Rachel Perkins 2012
103 mins
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Mabo
• Accessible
• Character relationships
• Quotable (to a degree)
• Will need to work on drawing out complexity
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Mabo
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JosephMackievicz 1950
138 mins
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All About Eve
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All About Eve
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All About Eve
• Character motivation
• Characterisation (Eve, Addison DeWitt)
• Filmic techniques
• Gender
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All About Eve
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Art Spiegelman 1991
296 pgs
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The Complete Maus
• Accessible
• Character relationships
• Visual/symbolic techniques
• Sophisticated responses
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Non Fiction - New
• This Boy’s Life by Tobias Wolff (2)
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Tobias Wolff1989
243 pgs
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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)
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David Lean 1984
164mins
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A Passage To India
• Adela Quested
• Trying to shape physical and cultural landscapes
• Journeys / Travel Writing
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Kristel Thornell 2010
239 pgs
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Night Street
• An imagining of the life of Australian artist Clarice Beckett
• Being creatively/imaginatively different
• Imagination as life
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J. MCoetzee 1986
157 pgs
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Foe
• What is the truth when there is only one witness?
• Compare to other castaway stories
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Barry Levinson 1997
97 mins
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Wag The Dog
• Creating fake stories to divert attention
• Remind you of Rudd and Gillard, anyone?
• Who has the power to shape reality?
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Wag The Dog
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Kate Grenville 2008
302 pgs
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The Lieutenant
• How failure to communicate causes conflict
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AsgharFarhardi 2011
123mins
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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
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Megan Stack 2010
251 pgs
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Every Man In This Village Is A Liar
• Quotable
• Style
• Selected chapters/passages
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• 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...
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Mudrooroo1965
152 pgs
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Wildcat Falling
• Indigenous/white identity
• The need for belonging
• Style that can be mimicked (present tense)
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Patti Miller2012
291 pgs
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The Mind of A Thief
• Indigenous identity
• Family and cultural identity
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• 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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