VCE English Units 3 & 4
Text study guides — List 1 & List 2
VCAA-aligned 2026 texts in Study Sesh: List 1 for reading and responding (Section A), List 2 mentor texts for Unit 3 Creating texts — each with revision notes and practice hooks.
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 guide gives you a revision frame: author, form, how to read for exams, and sample prompts from the same bank used elsewhere in Study Sesh. They orient practice — they are not a substitute for the primary text or your class notes.
- List 1 — speed-plan analytical topics (thesis + evidence) and cross-link to Section A feedback.
- List 2 — read for craft you can steal (voice, structure, address to audience) and connect to your framework page and commentary.
- Cross-link to Unit 3 and Unit 4 reading guides for metalanguage and implicit-meaning work.
List 1 — Reading and responding
VCAA studied texts for Area of Study 1; pairs with Section A exam prep.
- 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
List 2 — Unit 3 mentor texts (Creating texts)
VCAA mentor texts under the Framework of Ideas — use with Unit 3 Creating texts and Section B.
- About the BoysList 2 mentorTim Winton
- All That We Know of DreamingList 2 mentorPenni Russon
- An Open Letter to Doubting ThomasList 2 mentorChelsea Roffey
- An Open Letter to the Man Who Yelled "Go Back to Africa!" at MeList 2 mentorJD Dillard
- bidngenList 2 mentorMaya Hodge
- Dear Mrs DunkleyList 2 mentorHelen Garner
- Freedom or DeathList 2 mentorEmmeline Pankhurst
- Friday Essay: On the Sydney Mardi Gras March of 1978List 2 mentorMark Gillespie
- GooseberriesList 2 mentorAnton Chekhov
- Harrison BergeronList 2 mentorKurt Vonnegut
- Impromptu: Fiction for voice and pianoList 2 mentorCoco X Huang
- Monologue from City of GoldList 2 mentorMeyne Wyatt
- Monologue from CyranoList 2 mentorVirginia Gay
- SplitList 2 mentorCassie Lynch
- The Conquest of Land and DreamList 2 mentorYumna Kassab
- The Danger of a Single StoryList 2 mentorChimamanda Ngozi Adichie
- The Hate Race (Chapter 2)List 2 mentorMaxine Beneba Clarke
- The red plastic chair is a Vietnamese cultural institution, and my anchorList 2 mentorAmy Duong
- Walter's speech (end of Part 1) from The InheritanceList 2 mentorMatthew López
- What's the Point of Protest?List 2 mentorJonathan Parry