Spotlight on VCE English 2022

Year 12s have made a great start to the year with their text study of Runaway by Alice Munro; a wonderful collection of short stories written by a Nobel Prize Winning novelist. Before starting in class, most were ready to go having completed the pre-coursework reading activities. The Year 12 English teaching team, consisting of Ms. Andrea Dart, Ms. Gemma Etherington, Mr Michael Tod, Ms. Merrin Viljoen and Ms. Kate Cash will be there every step of the way throughout the year to guide and support our learners to achieve to their highest level. Preparation has started for the first SAC which is a creative response to the text. To help students think about and develop their work, the teaching team presented a text discussion panel at lunchtime on Friday 18th February. We talked about the characters, events and moments in the stories, and we also spoke about ways students might begin to explore ideas. It was a great way to start the year and the Academic Captain Audrey Hughan found it so useful she’s said we need one for each outcome. It is a great help for students to complete their first English SAC where we are thinking and writing about ideas including family cycles, social conventions, the importance of human connection and the ways we develop our identities. The SAC is in week 5 beginning on Monday 28th February.

Students are to keep an eye out for the next text discussion panel for the film study of Alfred Hitchcock’s Rear Window in term 2.

Ms. Kate Cash
Learning Area Leader of English