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VCE English Unit 1The Context Study
AREA OF STUDY 2Creating and presenting
In this area of study your writing is informed by reading a range of texts relevant to a Context
You are encouraged to read widely and to study set texts in order to examine the affects of form, purpose, audience and context on the authors’ choice of structure and language.
You will draw on the knowledge gained from this study to create your own written and/or multimodal texts in a process which includes planning, reviewing and editing.
Outcome 2On completion of this unit the student should be able to
create and present texts taking account of audience, purpose and context.
Key knowledge includes:
• the structures, features and conventions of a range of texts created for different purposes; for example, personal and imaginative, informative, instructional, argumentative or persuasive;
• the effects of form, context, audience and purpose on the author’s choice of structure and language;
• the visual, auditory and digital features used by authors to make meaning…
The Context- Area of Study 2: Creating and
PresentingAim of the study- create a collection of 3 pieces of
writing.
The 3 pieces should be directly related to the defining “context” or focus.
In this Unit, the Context will be “Exploring Issues of Identity and Belonging’
The process for developing pieces of writing will involve working from text to our own writing.
You will aim to develop your writing, exploring “Issues of Identity and Belonging’ ” using different styles and genres to suit the purpose and audience.
Although we will work through a number of specific exercises in class, you are encouraged to undertake your own investigation of text/writing associated with this study.
Explore! Find! Consider! Respond … REACT!
Writing: You may develop your responses in a variety of formats:
NarrativeNewspaper articleEssayPlay or speechPoemsPersonal ResponseCollection of diary entriesShort storyEditorial
You may use a variety of styles
… styles …exposition/essaypoem/s
script (speech or play)
letter/ssatire/parody
report
diary (could be a blog)
persuasive/argumentsocial commentary
c h i l d r e n ’ s s t o r y
YOU MUST OUTLINE YOUR PURPOSE
… different purposes.
to inform
to confront, or alarm
to explore your feelings, or hopes, or fears
to persuade
to predict
to admire
to express or provoke regret or nostalgia
to criticise
GATTACAWe will begin with a study of the film Gattaca
Gattaca
Geneticsgenetic engineering
determinism
freedomidentity
discrimination
free-will
genetic flaws
invalidvalid
parentage
evolution
creation
DNA
Bible – Ecclesiastes 7:13 Bible – Ecclesiastes 7:13 "Consider what God has done: "Consider what God has done:
Who can straighten what he Who can straighten what he has made crookedhas made crooked?”?”
faith births
degenerates
natural birth
genetic selection
manipulation
Nature vs Nurture
Genetic ImperfectionGenetic ImperfectionGenetic PerfectionGenetic PerfectionGenetically Genetically
privilegedprivileged
EugenicsEugenics
Gattaca Mood/ Futuristic Setting
Split Society
Injustice
Sterile
Suspicious
Determinism, identity, discrimination, genetic engineering
Gattaca – from character to writing … Focus on Identity
Eugene- suicidal, lack of courage, unable to live up to perfection, daring, wants to believe, courageous …
Irene– heart defect leads to her feeling of inferiority…
Vincent – courageous, driven to succeed, violent …
letters – to Jerome on the spaceship, or mother; a diary; newspaper article (announcing his “criminal act” –
[love] letters (to Vincent); dialogue with detectives, while Vincent is in space
report on the achievements in space, PowerPoint presentation of the history and disasters of Eugenics
?
The outcome is …Three pieces that you develop in class that
respond to the context, the prompt and the text.
You will need to submit a draft(s).
Examples:
Personal Reflection on a particular event that has shaped your identity
Narrative about a turning point in your life
Analyse a series of scenes in Gattaca with reference to Identity and Belonging
What’s your vision of the future?