VCE preparation (Years 10 and 11):
Please see the dates and times for : Specialist essay-writing workshops (VCE preparation)
The aim of these workshops is to provide intensive support for students who wish to extend their skills in English and prepare for VCE. These sessions give students the flexibility to choose which sessions and times suit them throughout the year.
Regular weekend classes
Saturday 4.00 pm: Regular weekly sessions
Sunday 2.00 pm: Regular weekly sessions
Focus:
- language analysis: development of persuasive and reasoning techniques (Green Workbook plus online support and then Orange Workbook for Year 11) and practice writing tasks
- essay writing and interpretation: text response skills: (variety of texts): how to improve essays (TEEL) structure
- essay writing: themes and issues: selection of poems and short stories as well as newspaper articles
- some work on thematic /expository essay writing for VCE (identity/conflict: please bring folders).(We will analyse interesting “people stories” based on a range of source material: articles from The Age/Insight/The Good Weekend, short stories and poems/ build depth.)
- improve written expression by building vocabulary base and showing depth and insight. (See vocabulary/tone tests)
- advanced comprehension tasks
See Homework Tasks, Examples and Sample Essays.
Please see Slideshow overview.
Please prepare a folder
For the next lesson(s), could I please ask you all to prepare a folder consisting of all the stories that we have covered so far in the class. We need to keep reading the stories, analysing the characters and thinking about key aspects of character. How do they think and feel? How do they develop and change?
These stories about people especially those featured constantly in Two of Us (The Age), help us to analyse people’s thoughts and actions in greater depth. They also provide interesting anecdotes and examples for our context-based essays.
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