ENGLISH DOMAIN


Hannah Banks
English Instructional Leader

English is important for helping you appreciate diversity, develop sensitivity and, perhaps most importantly, contribute to your future by crafting your writing and critical thinking.

In the English Domain, we foster an appreciation for a wide variety of texts and empower you to develop your own interpretations of the texts we study. You interpret, create, evaluate, discuss and perform a wide range of literary texts in which the primary purpose is aesthetic, as well as texts designed to inform and persuade. These include various types of media texts, including newspapers, film and digital texts, fiction, non-fiction, poetry, dramatic performances and many others.

Students complete English as a compulsory part of their VCE Studies. From 2025, VCE English Language and VCE English Literature are offered as extension options via an application and interview process. Successful students can choose to replace Core English with English Language/Literature or complete it in addition to Core English.

English 3-4

  • How does the Australian media influence their audience through words and images?
  • Present your opinion on a contemporary issue in a short speech
  • Study texts, memoirs, film and the media

Subject Code: V2EEN
Year Level: 12

There are two areas of study for each unit:

Unit 3
  • You produce an analytical interpretation of a selected text
  • We look at a variety of different text genres through a framework of ideas
Unit 4
  • You produce an analytical interpretation of a selected text
  • We look at the way language and argument complement one another and interact to position the reader
What does this mean for me?

We build on the activities undertaken in Unit 1 and 2. You also compare the way two selected texts present ideas, issues and themes.

Assessment
  • Text essays
  • Creative writing
  • Oral presentations
  • Expository writing
  • Comparative response
  • Exam
What sort of student would like English?

Someone who:

  • Enjoys reading, responding in writing and discussing ideas
  • Is interested in examining current affairs and the role the media plays in our society
  • Likes to work with ideas, to think creatively and write extended responses.
Suggested Pre-Requisites

Year 10: Standard English, Intro to English Language or Intro to Literature.

Year 11: English Units 1-2, English Language 1-2, Literature 1-2

 

VCE VM Literacy 3-4

  • Build confidence in your reading, writing and oral communication skills
  • Read and create ‘real word’ texts
  • Become a savvy consumer of persuasive texts

Subject Code: V4ELI
Year Level: 12

This course aims to build confidence in reading, writing, and oral communication skills, enabling students to read and create real-world texts and become savvy consumers of persuasive texts.

Unit 3
  • Locate, read and understand informational, organisation and procedural texts
  • Create workplace documents
  • Explore the way different organisations, groups, and businesses develop their own use of language

In Unit 3, students will focus on locating, reading, and understanding informational, organisational, and procedural texts, as well as creating workplace documents. They will explore how different organisations, groups, and businesses develop their own use of language. 

Unit 4
  • Learn about using language for advocacy
  • Produce a range of texts for the promotion of self, a product or community group
  • Negotiate a topic for a major oral presentation

Unit 4 shifts the focus to using language for advocacy, producing a range of texts for promoting oneself, a product, or a community group, and negotiating a topic for a major oral presentation. Assessments will include classroom learning tasks and major assignments, which may involve collections of annotations and summaries, vlogs, blogs, digital texts, case studies, or reflective journals. 

Assessment
  • Some will be set for you, and some you will get a say in
  • May include presentations, reports, journals, recordings, comparisons, research tasks, or digital texts

VCE VM Students can undertake VCE English as an alternative to this subject (with approval from the English Instructional Leader)