VCE Units 3 & 4 - Literature
VCE Units 3 & 4 - Literature
Overview
VCE Literature aims to foster students’ enjoyment and appreciation of the artistic and aesthetic merits of stories and storytelling and enables students to participate more fully in the cultural conversations that take place around them. By reading and exploring a diverse range of established and emerging literary works, students become increasingly empowered to discuss texts. As both readers and writers, students extend their creativity and high order thinking to express and develop their critical and creative voices. Students expand their frameworks for exploring literature by considering literary forms and features, engaging with language, and refining their insight into authorial choices.
Unit 3
Students initially consider how meaning alters when the form of a text changes through construction of close analysis. They explore the context of the text and the ways in which varying interpretations open them up to the different ways we can read and understand a text by developing, considering and comparing interpretations.
Areas of Study
- Adaptations and transformations: Students consider a text in two different forms and the ways in which form alters and reinforces meaning.
- Developing Interpretations: Students first develop their own interpretations of a set text, then later explore a supplementary reading that can enrich, challenge and/or contest its ideas, views, values and assumptions.
Unit 4
Students firstly present their own creative response to one of the texts they have studied. In doing this they draw upon their knowledge of literary conventions and their understanding of characterisation, language, setting, themes, and plot development in the original text. Students then focus on close reading of the texts to develop their appreciation of language choices.
- Creative Response to text: Involves the construction of students’ own text in response to one of the studied texts and an oral presentation in which they demonstrate their understanding of the significance of language, characterisation, plot development and reader engagement.
- Close reading: Students look at the relationship between language and meaning and explore the detail in writing.
Forms of Assessment
Close analysis of selected passages, Essays, Oral Presentation, Creative Response.
Prerequisites and Corequisites
It is an advantage to have completed Year 11 Literature however this is not a requirement.