VCE English Units 3 & 4
Text list — reading and responding
Every VCAA List 1 text in Study Sesh: author, form, study strategies, sample analytical topics, and links to Section A practice and reading-and-responding units.
Titles follow the in-app VCAA-aligned list used for practice content. Always confirm your year’s official text list with your teacher.
How to use these pages
Each text page gives you a revision frame: who wrote it, what form it takes, how to read for Section A, and a set of sample topics drawn from the same prompt bank used elsewhere in Study Sesh. They are not a substitute for reading the primary text or your class notes — they orient practice.
- Read the sample topics aloud and plan a thesis plus three pieces of evidence without writing — speed-planning is an exam skill.
- Cross-link to Unit 3 and Unit 4 reading guides for metalanguage and implicit-meaning work.
- Use Section A practice to turn plans into full paragraphs with feedback.
- Bad Dreams and Other StoriesTessa Hadley
- Born a CrimeTrevor Noah
- Chronicle of a Death ForetoldGabriel García Márquez
- Ghost WallSarah Moss
- High GroundStephen Johnson (director)
- Jane EyreCharlotte Brontë
- My Brilliant CareerMiles Franklin
- New and Selected Poems, Volume OneMary Oliver
- Oedipus the KingSophocles
- OrbitalSamantha Harvey
- Rainbow's EndJane Harrison
- RegenerationPat Barker
- Requiem for a BeastMatt Ottley
- Selected PoemsLangston Hughes
- Sunset BoulevardBilly Wilder (director)
- The Complete StoriesDavid Malouf
- The Memory PoliceYōko Ogawa
- Twelfth NightWilliam Shakespeare
- We Come with This PlaceDebra Dank
- We Have Always Lived in the CastleShirley Jackson