QCE English Units 3&4 Notes

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1. How concepts are constructed across different text types3 · Representations of concepts across text types

   Conversations about concepts in texts

2. Transformations and adaptations: meaning across versions3 · Connected texts — transformation and adaptation

   Conversations about concepts in texts

3. Personal, social and cultural significance in representations3 · Personal, philosophical and cultural significance

   Conversations about concepts in texts

4. Issue representation and audience positioning3 · Texts, contexts and connections

   How texts represent issues and position audiences

5. Media Texts: Visual and Multimodal Meaning-Making3 · Media texts — film, documentary, digital and multimodal

   Media texts: visual and multimodal meaning-making

6. Comparing how different contexts shape representations of issues3 · Texts and human experiences

   Comparing representations across contexts

7. Analytical reading: language, structure and convention3 · Responding to non-fiction and media texts

   Language features that construct meaning and position audiences

8. Writing to compare: analytical responses across texts3 · Producing analytical responses across texts

   Writing — analytical and persuasive responses

9. Authorial craft: how literary choices construct meaning4 · Close study of literary texts

   How literary texts construct meaning and position readers

10. Representations of concepts, identities, times and places4 · Representations of concepts, identities, times and places

    Representations: concepts, identities, times and places

11. Cultural context: values, assumptions and reader positioning4 · Close study of literary texts — critical responses

    Cultural assumptions, values and beliefs in texts

12. Aesthetic features and stylistic devices: effects and analysis4 · Close study of literary texts — critical responses

    Aesthetic features and stylistic devices

13. Conforming to and challenging literary conventions4 · Close study of literary texts — critical responses

    Conforming to and challenging conventions of structure and style

14. Essay structure: thesis, evidence and sustained argument4 · Close study of literary texts — critical responses

    Constructing and sustaining an analytical argument

15. Using textual evidence: selection, integration and analysis4 · Close study of literary texts — critical responses

    Selecting and synthesising textual evidence

16. Reader positioning: responding to 'How is the reader invited to view…?'4 · Close study of literary texts — critical responses

    Reader positioning and the 'invited to view' question type

17. Analysing significance: characters, symbols, settings and events4 · Close study of literary texts

    Significance analysis for characters, symbols, settings and events

18. Evaluative argument: responding to quotation-based questions4 · Close study of literary texts — critical responses

    Evaluative argument: 'To what extent do you agree?'

19. Creative responses: demonstrating understanding through making4 · Creative responses and statement of intentions

    Close study of literary texts — creative responses

20. Australian and First Nations Literary Perspectives4 · Australian, Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander literary voices

    Australian and diverse literary texts