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Category: VCE English

Crafting/Creating texts, VCE EAL, VCE English

Crafting Texts: Commentary structure

May 11, 2024 Shirlaine

Our Year 11s and Year 12s now have to write a commentary accompanying their Crafting/Creating texts piece, and this is rather different to the old Statement of Intention (SOI) from the Creative SAC from the old study design! While some schools have chosen...

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Essay Writing, VCE EAL, VCE English

Bad Dreams: An Abduction: Quotes

February 8, 2024March 4, 2025 Shirlaine

Here are 10 quotes for you, if you're studying Tessa Hadley's Bad Dreams and Other Stories for VCE English or VCE EAL! These quotes are from the first short story, 'An Abduction'...

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Crafting/Creating texts, VCE EAL, VCE English

Framework: Protest

December 8, 2023 Shirlaine

If your school has chosen 'Protest' as your Framework of Idea, here is what you need to know about it! VCAA describes this ideas as:

Tagged education, global-war-and-violence, high-school-english, human-rights, protests, VCELeave a comment
Crafting/Creating texts, VCE EAL, VCE English

Framework: Personal Journeys

December 8, 2023 Shirlaine

If your school has chosen 'Personal Journeys' as your Framework of Idea, here is what you need to know about it! VCAA describes this ideas as:

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Essay Writing, VCE EAL, VCE English

TEEL Structure: Link

September 21, 2023September 8, 2023 Shirlaine

As mentioned in our last post, TEEL stands for: Topic Sentence, Evidence, Explain, Link. Link to where? The Link is the final section of TEEL, and it is often very hard for our students to get right! We give our students a few principles when it comes to link: The link connects the body paragraph… Continue reading TEEL Structure: Link

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Essay Writing, VCE EAL, VCE English

TEEL Structure: Explain

September 14, 2023September 8, 2023 Shirlaine

Very few students can answer this question: what do you explain in TEEL? Our favourite way to frame it for our students is to ask: How does the Evidence...

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Essay Writing, VCE EAL, VCE English

TEEL Structure: Evidence

September 7, 2023August 31, 2023 Shirlaine

Evidence is the part where students present their evidence to support their Topic Sentence! This section is where students draw from their understanding of the text and show off their knowledge. Evidence can include:

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Essay Writing, VCE EAL, VCE English

TEEL structure: Topic Sentence

August 31, 2023August 31, 2023 Shirlaine

TEEL: Topic Sentence! A Topic Sentence tells your teacher or examiner what your paragraph will be about, aka it tells them how they should judge and score your body paragraph. There are a few guidelines we give to our students here at TSE Tuition...

Essay Writing, VCE EAL, VCE English

What is TEEL?

August 24, 2023August 19, 2023 Shirlaine

TEEL is the acronym many teachers use to teach students how to write an analytical body paragraph about a text. It stands for...

VCE EAL, VCE English, VCE English Language, VCE Literature

Which VCE English subject should you choose?

July 20, 2023July 21, 2023 Shirlaine

Let's talk about each subject individually!

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