The Unit 3 English Creative Writing SAC is a highly challenging task for most students, made especially difficult by the subjective nature of creative writing.
Our “VCE English Creative SAC Lecture” is designed to take students through each stage of this daunting assessment in a step-by-step manner and to make sure you have the necessary skills, information and confidence to produce a high quality creative interpretation of your text, and achieve the highest possible SAC mark.
Packed full of practical advice and easy-to-follow techniques, this 2 hour lecture is being delivered by an experienced VCE English teacher who is also a current VCE exam assessor for VCAA.
Topics that will be addressed include:
- Applying the conventions of creative writing when developing your creative interpretation and incorporating the relevant metalanguage in your analysis of the original text.
- Developing an authentic use of language, voice and style to make your writing more engaging and sophisticated.
- An analysis of relevant literary devices and how they’re used to create meaning and influence interpretation of a text.
- Insightful selection of literary elements and devices to build meaning and depth in your creative piece.
- The qualities of outstanding creative responses and how structure and conventions of language can be used to create voice and style.
- Planning creative responses to texts.
- Common mistakes made during the creative writing process and how to avoid them.
- The ways authors create meaning and build the world of the text by responding to different contexts, audiences and purposes.
- Transforming and adapting language and literary devices to generate particular responses, with consideration of the original text.
- Demonstrating a sophisticated and complex understanding of the original text through the insightful selection of key moments, characters and themes that are worthy of exploration.
- Using elements of, and references from, the original text to demonstrate a highly convincing connection between the text and your creative response, and a complex understanding of purpose, audience and context.
- Skilfully transforming and adapting language and literary devices to produce specific responses while clearly demonstrating an extensive knowledge of the original text and an understanding of how the text creates meaning.
- Drafting, reviewing, editing and refining your creative interpretation for fluency, coherence, sophistication and stylistic and imaginative effect.
- High-impact strategies that will capture and hold your reader’s attention and make your written creative piece stand out.
- How to produce a written explanation that provides an insightful justification of the decisions made during the writing process, the reasons for the chosen textual features and the adopted voice and style, and how these demonstrate an extensive understanding of the text.
- Detailed examples that demonstrate the differences between A and B grade creative responses will be investigated.
To ensure you are well prepared for this challenging SAC, you will also receive a detailed, comprehensive set of A+ Notes as well as access to an audio-visual recording of this lecture to watch and listen to as often as you like between now and your SAC.
Authentic A+ sample creative essay responses will also be provided.
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