VCE Text Guides
Cheat sheets for every set text
One page per text on the VCAA VCE English List 1 for 2027: themes, context, characters, the passages that matter, and practice prompts.
Each guide covers overview, themes, context, characters, key passages, a grouped quote list and practice prompts — plus key-shot breakdowns for the films.
Regeneration
Pat Barker
Novel
Jane Eyre
Charlotte Brontë
Novel
My Brilliant Career
Miles Franklin
Novel
Chronicle of a Death Foretold
Gabriel García Márquez
Novel
Orbital
Samantha Harvey
Novel
Edenglassie
Melissa Lucashenko
Novel
Ghost Wall
Sarah Moss
Novel
The Memory Police
Yōko Ogawa
Novel
The Lottery and Other Stories
Shirley Jackson
Short stories
The Complete Stories
David Malouf
Short stories
The One Day of the Year
Alan Seymour
Play
Twelfth Night
William Shakespeare
Play
Oedipus the King
Sophocles
Play
Selected Poems
Langston Hughes
Poetry
New and Selected Poems, Volume One
Mary Oliver
Poetry
The Holdovers
dir. Alexander Payne
Film
Picnic at Hanging Rock
dir. Peter Weir
Film
Gurrumul
dir. Paul Williams
Multimodal
We Come with This Place
Debra Dank
Non-fiction
Educated
Tara Westover
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Practise
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