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Introduction To new & second year Unit 3&4 English Texts The 2015 Edition Ticking Mind

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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

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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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