VCE ENGLISH

VCE ENGLISH UNITS 1/2

Year 11 English forms part of a continuum in the senior English pathway that aims to prepare students for success in Year 12 whilst also building the core literacy skills important for life after school. Core to the Year 11 course is the importance of drafting, reviewing and editing through teacher guidance to allow students to hone their skills in ways that are rewarded at Year 12. Students explore a range of text types and are asked to think analytically, creatively, and critically as they create their own texts, and explore the texts of others.

Students are introduced to all the key areas of the VCE English Study Design. This includes responding analytically to set texts, crafting texts to develop their own writing voice, analysing persuasive texts, and constructing points of view for a persuasive oral presentation.

VCE LITERATURE UNITS 1/2

In Year 11 Literature, students explore how language, structure and stylistic choices are used in different literary forms.

The course explores both print and non-print texts, reflecting on which points of view, experiences and contexts shape their own interpretations of a text. Students will have the opportunity to respond to a broad range of texts personally, critically and creatively by exploring the ideas and concerns of each text.

Coursework includes creative responses, spirited discussion and analytical thinking and writing. This broad selection of tasks encourages students to become independent and critical thinkers.

If you like to read and write, and enjoy the discussion and analysis of texts and ideas, then Literature will be a very rewarding experience.

Career Options
Playwright, Presenter, Program Director, Publicity Officer, Publisher, Reviewer, Script Writer, Teacher, Editor, Historian, Journalist, Librarian, Literary Critic, Writer, Archivist, Bookseller, Copywriter

VCE ENGLISH UNITS 3/4

Year 12 English is the culmination of the senior English pathway. Building on skills they have developed through Year 10 and 11, students are given opportunities to hone their writing in a range of styles in order to prepare for success in both school-based assessments and VCAA exam conditions.

Core to the Year 12 English course is the analysis of writing. Students explore the construction of persuasive texts as well as engaging with literature and the ways that author’s comment on human experiences in their writing. This is complemented with opportunities to create their own texts with defined contexts and purposes.

Across the year students consolidate and practise all the key areas of the end of year VCAA English exam. Each area of study is assessed through essay writing, which includes responding analytically to literature, crafting texts to develop their own writing voice, and analysing persuasive texts.

VCE LITERATURE UNITS 3/4

In Year 12 Literature, students experience a range of literature, from early to contemporary works, dealing with a diversity of cultural experiences and a range of points of view.

This course encourages students to explore different readings of texts and the values of both the writer and reader. Through class discussion and debate, students are encouraged to reflect or question aspects of human behaviours through characterisation, imagery, style, point of view and narrative structure.

This study gives students the opportunity to learn how to think deeply and analytically about literature, how to critique a work of literature using a literary perspective such as feminism, and finally, how to become a short story writer, using one of their texts as the starting point for a piece of writing.