YEAR 11 12 Literature VCE LITERATURE Unit One

YEAR 11 & 12 Literature VCE LITERATURE

Unit One Focuses on: - how the reader is part of the meaning-making process - key features of the texts studied - language, style, structure - and how these are used by the authors - how texts, and authors, question aspects of society - how groups and individuals are represented in texts Texts studied are from the Year 12 text list. Usually a play and its screen adaptation, and another play or novel.

Unit Two Focuses on: - the relationship between authors, audiences and contexts - the views and values of the author and the social issues the texts raise - how literary criticism can be applied to texts - close reading of texts Two of the texts studied are from the Year 12 text list and may be in the form of a play, novel, anthology of poetry or other literature, and one texts will be a shorter piece, such as a short story or poem, and will be chosen by the student.

Unit Three Focuses on: - how form affects meaning - analysing structural and literary features of a text - using different structural and imaginative techniques to recreate a literary work Texts studied: usually a play and a film adaptation, and another text, which may be a novel or play.

Unit Four Focuses on: - understanding literary criticism and using it to analyse the set text how texts reflect the views and values of both the writer and the reader close analysis of texts, i. e. detailed scrutiny of language, style and construction Texts studied: novel, play or other literature, and an anthology of poetry.

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