VCE English prescribed texts

VCE English Unit 3/4 guide to Tessa Hadley's short story collection Bad Dreams and Other Stories, on the 2026 VCE text list (its final year). All ten stories in brief, context, Hadley's style, ideas, key moments, how VCAA frames Section A topics, original practice topics and an essay plan.

VCE English Unit 3/4 guide to Trevor Noah's memoir Born a Crime, on the 2026 VCE text list (its final year). Context, structure and voice, key figures, ideas, key chapters, how VCAA frames Section A topics, original practice topics and an essay plan.

VCE English Unit 3/4 guide to Gabriel García Márquez's Chronicle of a Death Foretold, on the 2026 and 2027 VCE text list. Context, structure, characters, ideas, chapter-by-chapter guide, how VCAA frames Section A topics, original practice topics and an essay plan.

VCE English Unit 3/4 guide to Sarah Moss's novel Ghost Wall, on the 2026 and 2027 VCE text list. Context, narration and structure, characters, ideas, key moments, how VCAA frames Section A topics, original practice topics and an essay plan.

VCE English Unit 3/4 guide to the film High Ground, directed by Stephen Johnson, on the 2026 VCE text list (its final year). Context, film techniques, characters, ideas, key scenes, how VCAA frames Section A topics, original practice topics and an essay plan.

VCE English Unit 3/4 guide to Charlotte Brontë's Jane Eyre, on the 2026 and 2027 VCE text list. Context, the five settings, characters, ideas, key chapters, cited quotations with analysis, how VCAA frames Section A topics, original practice topics and an essay plan.

VCE English Unit 3/4 guide to Miles Franklin's My Brilliant Career, on the 2026 and 2027 VCE text list. Context, narration and structure, characters, ideas, key chapters, cited quotations with analysis, how VCAA frames Section A topics, original practice topics and an essay plan.

VCE English Unit 3/4 guide to Mary Oliver's New and Selected Poems, Volume One (the Dream Work and American Primitive sections), on the 2026 and 2027 VCE text list. The set poems, context, Oliver's style, ideas, key poems, how VCAA frames Section A topics, original practice topics and an essay plan.

VCE English Unit 3/4 guide to Oedipus the King (Fagles translation), on the 2026 and 2027 VCE text list. Context, structure, characters, ideas, key scenes, how VCAA frames Section A topics, original practice topics and a worked essay plan.

VCE English Unit 3/4 guide to Samantha Harvey's Booker Prize-winning novel Orbital, new on the 2026 VCE text list and also set for 2027. Context, structure, the six astronauts, ideas, key moments, likely topic patterns, original practice topics and an essay plan.

VCE English Unit 3/4 guide to Jane Harrison's play Rainbow's End, on the 2026 VCE text list (its final year). Historical context, dramatic structure, characters, ideas, key scenes, how VCAA frames Section A topics, original practice topics and an essay plan.

VCE English Unit 3/4 guide to Pat Barker's Regeneration, new on the 2026 VCE text list and also set for 2027. Historical context, structure, characters, ideas, key scenes, likely topic patterns, original practice topics and an essay plan.

VCE English Unit 3/4 guide to Matt Ottley's multimodal work Requiem for a Beast, on the 2026 VCE text list (its final year). The two narratives, context, multimodal techniques, characters, ideas, key moments, how VCAA frames Section A topics, original practice topics and an essay plan.

VCE English Unit 3/4 guide to Langston Hughes's Selected Poems, new on the 2026 VCE text list and also on the 2027 list. The four set sections and their poems, Harlem Renaissance and Jim Crow context, Hughes's forms and voices, ideas, key poems, how VCAA frames Section A topics, original practice topics and an essay plan.

VCE English Unit 3/4 guide to Billy Wilder's film Sunset Boulevard, on the 2026 VCE text list (its final year). Context, film techniques, characters, ideas, key scenes, how VCAA frames Section A topics, original practice topics and an essay plan.

VCE English Unit 3/4 guide to the seven set stories from David Malouf's The Complete Stories (the Every Move You Make section), on the 2026 and 2027 VCE text list. Each story in brief, context, style, ideas, key moments, how VCAA frames Section A topics, original practice topics and an essay plan.

VCE English Unit 3/4 guide to Yōko Ogawa's The Memory Police, on the 2026 and 2027 VCE text list. Context, structure and the novel-within-the-novel, characters, ideas, key moments, how VCAA frames Section A topics, original practice topics and an essay plan.

VCE English Unit 3/4 guide to Shakespeare's Twelfth Night, on the 2026 and 2027 VCE text list. Context, the double plot, characters, ideas, act-by-act key scenes, cited quotations with analysis, how VCAA frames Section A topics, original practice topics and an essay plan.

VCE English Unit 3/4 guide to Debra Dank's We Come with This Place, new on the 2026 VCE text list and also on the 2027 list. Context, structure and style, the people in the book, ideas, key moments, how VCAA frames Section A topics, original practice topics and an essay plan.

VCE English Unit 3/4 guide to Shirley Jackson's We Have Always Lived in the Castle, on the 2026 VCE text list (its final year). Context, narration, characters, ideas, key scenes, how VCAA frames Section A topics, original practice topics and an essay plan.

VCE Unit 3/4 analysis of Bram Stoker's Dracula. Themes, formal reading of the epistolary structure, examiner focus and an essay scaffold built around the politics of the archive.

VCE Unit 3/4 analysis of Hannie Rayson's Extinction. Themes, a reading of the play's chamber dramaturgy and an essay scaffold built around ethical compromise in the Otway Ranges.

VCE Unit 3/4 analysis of Conrad's Heart of Darkness. Themes, formal reading of the frame narrative, examiner focus and an essay scaffold that engages directly with the postcolonial critique.

VCE Unit 3/4 analysis of Cate Kennedy's short story collection Like a House on Fire. Themes, a unifying reading of the collection and an essay scaffold built around recurring motifs and shifts of perspective.

VCE Unit 3/4 analysis of Macbeth by William Shakespeare. Themes, structural reading, examiner focus and an essay scaffold built around equivocation and the moral collapse of the protagonist.

VCE Unit 3/4 analysis of Euripides' Medea in the Gilbert Murray translation. Themes, rhetorical reading, examiner focus and an essay scaffold built around persuasion and the politics of exile.

VCE Unit 3/4 analysis of Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen. Themes, structural reading of free indirect discourse, examiner focus and an essay scaffold built around the moral revision of judgement.

VCE Unit 3/4 analysis of Emily St. John Mandel's Station Eleven. Themes, formal reading of the interleaved timelines and an essay scaffold built around the claim that survival alone is not enough.

VCE Unit 3/4 analysis of Enoch and Mailman's The 7 Stages of Grieving. Themes, formal reading of the hybrid one-woman dramaturgy and an essay scaffold grounded in reconciliation-era politics.

VCE Unit 3/4 analysis of The Importance of Being Earnest by Oscar Wilde. Themes, dramatic structure, examiner focus and an essay scaffold built around the play's satirical inversions.