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VCE LITERATURE

 * Welcome to the place where you'll find all you need to know and all you want to share with others for Units 3&4 VCE Literature. Below is an outline of what we'll be looking at this year, the way the year's broken down and how you can access and add to this page. Part of your assessment for this subject will involve you using this wikispace so make sure you check in regularly.**

Slaughterhouse 5 - Kurt Vonnegut ** //**(Creative Responses to Texts)**// This area of study focuses on the imaginative techniques used for creating and recreating a literary work. Term 2, Weeks 9-10 Outcome: On completion of this unit the student should be able to respond imaginatively to a text, and comment on the connections between the text and the response.
 * __UNIT 4__
 * // SAC - Term 2/3 Holidays, 60% of school based assessment for Unit 4 (part 1 + part 2) //

Hamlet - Shakespeare ** **Hamlet - Shakespeare & Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead - (film) Stoppard //( Close Analysis) //** This area of study focuses on detailed scrutiny of the style, concerns and construction of a text. Students attend closely to the textual details to examine the ways specific features and/or moments contribute to their overall interpretations. Outcome: On completion of this unit the student should be able to analyse critically features of a text, relating them to an interpretation of the text as a whole
 * Term 3 & Term 4**
 * //SAC - Term 4, 40% of school based assessment for Unit 4//**

 **__TEXTS__** - in order of appearance: __**UNIT 3**__ **Frankenstein - Mary Shelley ** // (**Adaptations and Transformations**) // This area focuses on how the form of text is significant in the making of meaning. Students recognise the major divisions of poetry, drama and prose and how these literary forms can be divided into genres such as crime fiction, science fiction, fantasy and romance. ** Term 1, Weeks 1-6 ** Outcome: On completion of this unit the student should be able to analyse how meaning changes when the form of a text changes. //** SAC - Term 1 Week 6, 40% of school based assessment for Unit 3 **// During this Unit we'll be comparing the novel by Mary Shelley with the 1994 Kenneth Branagh film. In doing so we'll also consider other literature, texts and films related to the novel. Bypass **: The Story of a Road - Michael McGirr (//Views, Values and Contrasts)//** This area of study focuses on the consideration of the views and values in texts and the ways in which these are expressed to create particular perspectives of the worlds. Studentrs consider the issues, ideas and contrasts writers choose to explore and the way these are represented in the text. Outcome: On completion of this unit the student should be able to analyse, interpret and evaluate the views and values of the text in terms of the ideas, social conventions and beliefs that the text appears to endorse, challenge or leave unquestioned. //** SAC - Term 2 Week 5, 40% of school based assessment for Unit 3 **// ** Poetry by Jennifer Strauss //(Considering Alternative Viewpoints)// This area of study focuses on how various interpretations and judgements about a text can contribute to the student's interpretations. Students engage with the viewpoints of others, for examle, in a review, critical essay and commentary. Term 2, Weeks 5-8 Outcome: On completion of this unit the student should be able to evaluate views of a text and make comparisons with their own interpretation. This outcome will require regular postings on the Literature Wiki **
 * Term 1, Week 7- Term 2, Week 3 **
 * // SAC - Term 2, Week 10, 20% of School based assessment for Unit 3 //**