VCE English

Juliet “study = write write write!!” - my very amazing english teacher. so i’m going to quote everything she has told us this year. notes don’t really matter if you don’t know how to analyse what those notes mean in the context of the text you’re studying. so always write is what she gets at! paragraphs, topic sentences, analytical statements. and perfect those. edit. edit again. be harsh and critique everything (with discretion of course).

she also encourages us to plan essays as a form of revision. set out three big ideas, quotations, how they will be analysed. unpacking prompts with different interpretations and perspectives, etc etc.

i’m not advising to not take notes, because for this AOS i have barely any in-class notes and we’ve finished all the actual learning. your notes shouldn’t be only whiteboard notes. have a document. thematically organise quotes. have points of analysis for the quotes, and motifs, and any other construction feature that may be evident. have synonyms for everything!!

from my amazing english teacher, in my not so amazing words, hope that helped

girlmeetsvce of course! i create a landscape google doc and colour code EVERYTHING like a crazy person…

the first thing i have in the document is a quote bank. quotes are organised into themes (which are colour-coded), or miscellaneous, meaning they apply to multiple themes or are just there to support a main piece of evidence.

then using the same thematic colour coding system, i have the second section— thematic synonyms. my english teacher says i use a LOT of repetition, so i’ve created a synonym bank with synonyms for all the themes.

the third and final section are symbols/motifs/construction techniques. i do this dot pointed, and (shockingly) don’t colour code this one.

i’ve added a photo here of the template if you want to look in case i rambled on too much

thank you so much!