Transcript VCE ENGLISH UNITS 3 & 4

OUTCOME 2: Creating & Presenting
CONTEXT: The Imaginative Landscape
FOCUS TEXTS: ‘One Night the Moon’, - short film and
‘Island’- a collection of short stories
 Students focus on the interconnection between reading
and writing.
 Students should be able to identify and describe ideas and
arguments presented in selected texts and draw on those
ideas and arguments to create written texts for a specified
audience and purpose.
 Students should explain their own decisions about form,
purpose, language, audience and context in their writing.
OUTCOME 2 – ASSESSMENT:
Context Writing SAC
The assessment task for this outcome is 1 sustained
piece of imaginative/expository/persuasive writing,
based on the idea in the context – ‘The Imaginative
landscape’, the prompt you are given on the day and
the texts you have studied.
 This will include a WRITTEN EXPLANATION of your writing
choices in terms of form, language, audience, purpose and your
connections to the context, prompt and texts.
 This SAC is worth 30 marks and must be completed in 150
minutes (3 periods).
 You are permitted to bring in a dictionary.
 Expected word length will be approx. 900-1200 words.
UNIT 3, OUTCOME 2:
creating & presenting
Context: The
Imaginative Landscape
Texts: One Night the Moon (short film)
Island (short stories)
WHAT IS
LANDSCAPE?
This is a
landscape
This is a landscape:
This is a landscape:
This is a landscape:
This is a landscape:
What is the Imaginative
Landscape?
It could be an exploration of:
 The way we imagine places to be.
 The way we remember places in our imagination.
 The way we perceive of a certain landscape/place
positively or negatively due to experiences we have had
there.
 Explore a place/landscape you hate and why.
 Explore a place/landscape you love and why.
 The influence landscapes/places can have on our
imaginations.
THE IMAGINATIVE LANDSCAPE
‘One Night The Moon’
From Director Rachael Perkins
Sample Assessment Task
Expository style piece: Film review
 Write a review of the film One Night the Moon for the
Education section of a daily metropolitan newspaper
that focuses on the ways that the text visually portrays
the landscape and shapes the response viewers have
towards it. You could include an image or images taken
from the film’s official website in this review. Ensure
that you discuss the impact that the context of the text
has on the director’s choices of structures and features.
 For an example of the conventions of a film review see:
http://www.sbs.com.au/films/movie/1113/
Sample Assessment Task
Imaginative style writing:
In One Night the Moon,
 Emily tries to follow the moon.
 Jim (the father) and Albert (the tracker) have very different
ideas about the land and their connection to it.
 Albert and his wife help the Ryan family find and farewell
their child, whilst their own child has been lost to them as
part of the stolen generation.
 The search for Emily is made more difficult because the
white men destroy the subtle evidence left in the landscape.
Write a piece that explores the effect that a particular area
of land or landscape has on the imagination of a character
from the film or one you invent.
Sample Assessment Task
Persuasive style piece:
Based on the prompt: “It can be difficult to accept
changes that occur to a familiar landscape.”
 A speech arguing for or against Aboriginal land rights.
Written Explanation
OR Statement of Intention
This is required in the two Context SACs (but not in the
exam).
You will need to:
 Explain your choices – say why you’ve used certain
words, structures, characters.
 Relate your choices to the text & prompt.
 Discuss FORM, LANGUAGE, AUDIENCE, PURPOSE,
CONTEXT/CONNECTIONS.
 You can write this in first person (i.e. ’I’).
ISLAND
BY ALISTAIR MACLEOD
THE BOAT
Sample writing task in Expository style writing:
This story explores the impact of the modern world on
traditional living and values.
 Write a feature article that explores the importance of
retaining some of the “old” while embracing the “new”.
THE LOST SALT GIFT OF
BLOOD
Sample writing task in Imaginative style writing:
This story is about making difficult decisions that could
drastically change the lives of people around you.
 Write a personal descriptive piece reflecting on a
difficult decision being made that will impact others.
Eg- an adoptive child deciding to locate their birth
parents.
THE ROAD TO RANKIN’S
POINT
Sample writing task in Persuasive style writing:
This story focuses on the individuals determination to
make their own life/death decisions.
 Write a speech that an elderly person may give to their
family and loved ones arguing for there right to remain
living independently in their own home.
TO EVERY THING THERE IS A
SEASON
Sample writing task in Imaginative style writing:
This story is about growing up and the loss of childhood
innocence.
 Write a short story about a child who is on the verge of
discovering that Santa is not real. How does there
perception of things change.
- Albert Einstein