In order to help our students succeed in this area of study, it's important to think about what their teachers and examiners are looking for in the essay. There are so many things teachers are looking for in an Argument Analysis essay - here is a quick (but not exhaustive) list: the depth of insight… Continue reading What makes a good Argument Analysis?
There are 2 Areas of Study (AOS) in the old and new VCE English and EAL study design, called 'Exploring Argument' in Unit 2 (Year 11), and 'Analysing Argument' in Unit 4 (Year 12). Both AOS aim to teach our teens to identify an author's arguments how all the arguments interplay with each other how… Continue reading What is Argument Analysis?
Here are a few reading articles to help our Year 11s and 12s to keep up their English skills over the term break:
Here are a few activities to help our Year 9s and 10s to keep up their English skills over the term break:
Here are a few activities to help our Year 7s and 8s to keep up their English skills over the term break:
The new VCE study design is upon us and we now have the 'Crafting Texts' (or Creating Texts in Year 12) Area of Study. Here's a quick explainer of what teachers are looking for and what students are expected to do!
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For Year 11s this year, there is now a new area of study in the VCE study design for English/EAL: the personal response! This is a totally new area of study for VCE English/EAL, and everyone is asking questions about it!
In our experience, teens who struggle with expressing and expanding their ideas are often working with a less-than-ideal vocabulary. They lack the words to articulate the nuance, depth and breadth of their ideas, and so they write in clumsy, ineffective and inaccurate ways. But there is help!
Argument analysis has been part of the VCE English/EAL study design for many, many, MANY years, in one form or another. And it will continue to be a part of the new study design! So how can we help our teens lift improve their analysis?
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