What is this subject about?
Through the Looking Glass will explore why some writers’ ideas were controversial enough to be banned! It will also focus on writers’ beliefs and attitudes, personal circumstances and writing styles. It will uncover where some of the phrases we use every day come from by examining a variety of popular and classic novels, films, poetry and songs. . Study in this subject involves lots of class discussion, questioning of your classmates’ and authors’ ideas and creative writing.
What are we going to be doing?
* Novels,
* Films
* Poetry
* Songs
* Short stories
* Artwork.
Where does this subject go?
This subject is a great springboard into VCE Literature Units 1, 2, 3 & 4.
This subject will give you a great lead into the following VCE subject/s:
* English
* History
* Theatre Studies/Drama
* Media
* RE
* Politics
* Art
This subject is advantageous if you’re looking at these careers:
* Journalism
* Acting
* Professional Writing
* Communications
* Public Relations
* Editing
* Teaching
* Copy Writing
* Advertising/Marketing
* Film making
* Law
* Librarian