VCE English as an Additional Language Units 3&4 Notes

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1. Reading strategies that unlock meaning in a set text3 · Unit 3 AOS1 — Reading and responding to texts

   Reading and viewing strategies

2. Character motivation, relationship tension and the function of setting3 · Unit 3 AOS1 — Reading and responding to texts

   Dynamics of a text

3. Reading a set text through its historical context and values3 · Unit 3 AOS1 — Reading and responding to texts

   Historical, social and cultural values

4. Building an analytical essay: structure, metalanguage and integrated evidence3 · Unit 3 AOS1 — Reading and responding to texts

   Analytical writing and metalanguage

5. Express, explain, reflect, argue: choosing and holding a purpose3 · Unit 3 AOS2 — Creating texts

   Purpose, context and audience

6. Writing about country: place, belonging, migration and landscape3 · Unit 3 AOS2 — Creating texts

   Framework of Ideas — Writing about country

7. Writing about protest: conflict, contest and the value of dissent3 · Unit 3 AOS2 — Creating texts

   Framework of Ideas — Writing about protest

8. Writing about personal journeys: whose story, told by whom3 · Unit 3 AOS2 — Creating texts

   Framework of Ideas — Writing about personal journeys

9. Writing about play: games, make-believe, rules and rule breaking3 · Unit 3 AOS2 — Creating texts

   Framework of Ideas — Writing about play

10. Turning the exam title and a single stimulus into a controlled text3 · Unit 3 AOS2 — Creating texts

    Using stimulus and the given title

11. Reading past the surface: explicit and implicit ideas in a set text4 · Unit 4 AOS1 — Reading and responding to texts

    Explicit and implicit ideas

12. How a text conveys values and positions different readers4 · Unit 4 AOS1 — Reading and responding to texts

    How values are conveyed

13. How language features and text structures shape meaning in a text4 · Unit 4 AOS1 — Reading and responding to texts

    Vocabulary, text structures and language features

14. Planning and sustaining a 700-900 word analytical response4 · Unit 4 AOS1 — Reading and responding to texts

    Essay craft under exam conditions

15. Finding the contention and mapping the supporting arguments4 · Unit 4 AOS2 — Analysing argument

    Contention, argument and point of view

16. How written and spoken language positions an intended audience4 · Unit 4 AOS2 — Analysing argument

    Persuasive language and tone

17. How images, graphics and captions support and augment argument4 · Unit 4 AOS2 — Analysing argument

    Visuals in argument

18. Structuring an analysis of argument: movement, audience and effect4 · Unit 4 AOS2 — Analysing argument

    Structuring a Section C analysis

19. How context and the author's identity shape an audience's reaction4 · Unit 4 AOS2 — Analysing argument

    Intended audience and author identity

20. Analysing intonation, pace, pausing and stress in spoken persuasion4 · Unit 4 AOS2 — Analysing argument

    Spoken and audio visual argument