VCE English & Literature guide - units 3 & 4

Copies of the text

• The hate race by Maxine Beneba Clarke
  • Also available as an ebook (access at the Library)

Study guide

• Insight Comparative guide to The Hate Race and Charlie's Country

Reviews

• Antipodes
• Australian Book Review
• The Spectator

Interviews and other talks

Focusing on The Hate Race:

• Maxine Beneba Clarke talks about her new book, The Hate Race (2016) [3 min 28 sec] 
• The cumulative effects of racism: it eats away at the essence of your being (2016), The Guardian
• On The Hate Race (2019), The Garret Writers on Writers podcast [46 min] 
  • Teachers' Resources for The Garrett: Maxine Beneba Clarke
• HEY GIRL: Growing up with Maxine Beneba Clarke (2016), Wheeler Centre [1 hour 5 min] 

On writing, poetry, race and racism, and more: 

• Open page with Maxine Beneba Clarke (2006), Australian Book Review
• Maxine Beneba Clarke on being a Black female author on the school curriculum (2023), The University of Melbourne [56 min] 
• Maxine Beneba Clarke named inaugural Poet in Residence (2022)
• Uplifting Black Lives Matter Around the World (2021), Smithsonian Asian Pacific American Centre
• The Stories We Tell Ourselves: Sareeta Domingo & Maxine Beneba Clarke (2021), Wheeler Centre [18 min] 
• Be what you can't see: one writer's journey (2019), TEDxSydney [12 min] 
• TikTok Dance' by Maxine Beneba Clarke [2 min 23 sec] 
  • Red Room Poetry 30in30

Analyses

• On writing and risk
• Shortcomings of the heart; racism in Australia

Further resources

• SLV Catalogue

Copies of the text

• Never let me go by Kazuo Ishiguro

Study guides

• CAE Book Group discussion notes

Analyses

• Science Fiction and the Human Imagination by Margaret Atwood - see section on Never let me go by Kazuo Ishiguro
• Kazuo Ishiguro - criticism and interpretation - see section on Never let me go
• The novels of Kazuo Ishiguro - see chapter 'Questioning the possibles : Never let me go (2005)'
• Generic considerations in Never Let Me Go
• Race and expression in Never Let Me Go
• Mortality and memory in Never Let Me Go

Interviews

• The art of letting go
• Kazuo Ishiguro & Alex Garland (screenwriter) [36 min] 

Further resources

• Gale Literary resources
• SLV catalogue

Copies of the text

• The Crucible by Arthur Miller
  • Also available as a sound recording

Study guides

• Insight Comparative guide to The Crucible and The Dressmaker
• Insight text guide
• NEAP guide
• Wizard Books Students’ guide to The Crucible

Reviews

• Arthur Miller's The Crucible (1964)
• Why The Crucible is important (2012)
• Why Arthur Miller wrote The Crucible (2015), American Masters PBS [4 min] 

Analyses

• Re(dis)covering the witches in Arthur Miller's The Crucible: A feminist reading
• "Because it is my name!” Arthur Miller’s Moral Imperative, The Crucible and Miller’s HUAC Testimony [16 min] 
• Using the past to intervene in the present
• Arthur Miller's "Weight of Truth" in The Crucible
• Cambridge Companion to Arthur Miller
• Explore more analyses in The Arthur Miller Journal

Interviews

• Why I Wrote The Crucible

Further resources

• Gale Literary sources
• MacMillan Comparative guide with Year of Wonders
• Pearson Comparative guide with Year of Wonders
• Insight Comparative guide with Year of Wonders
• SLV catalogue

Copies of the text

• The 7 stages of grieving written by Wesley Enoch and Deborah Mailman; dramaturgy by Hilary Beaton
• Mapping Cultural Identity in Contemporary Australian Performance

Study guide

• Insight Comparative guide to The 7 stages of grieving and The longest memory

Analyses

• Performative lives, transformative practices
• Fact and fusion
• Performing Indigenous Australian women

Further resources

• Gale Literary Sources
• SLV catalogue

Study guides

• Insight Comparative guide to The Queen and Ransom
• Guide for teachers

Reviews

• Film Comment
• Jung Journal
• New York
• NPR [4 min] 
• Rolling Stone
• The Guardian 

Analyses

• Distant lives: grief and protocol in The Queen
• The Queen, the People's Princess, and the crowd: collective memory and history in The Queen

Interviews

• Interview with Helen Mirren and Stephen Frears [18 min] 
• Interview with Director Stephen Frears, NPR [20 min] 
• Helen Mirren Offers Intimate Portrait of 'The Queen', NPR [8 min] 
• 'The Queen' and Helen Mirren, NPR [20 min] 
• Slate 

Further resources

• SLV catalogue​
• Film research guide

Copies of the text

• Reckoning by Magda Szubanski

Study guide

• CAE Book Group Discussion notes

Reviews

• The Conversation
• The Age
• The Australian 

Interviews

• Magda Szubanski on Reckoning, Text Publishing [2 min 45 sec] 
• Magda Szubanski reading from Reckoning, Text Publishing [3 min] 
• Magda Szubanski at The Wheeler Centre [1 hour] 

Further resources

• SLV catalogue

Study guide

• Insight Comparative guide to Photograph 51 and My Brilliant Career

Reviews

• The Guardian
• The Lancet
• Nature
• New York Times

Interviews

• Flaws & forgiveness 
• Theatre Voice 

Further resources

• SLV catalogue

Copy of the text

• I am Malala: The Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Was Shot by the Taliban by Malala Yousafzai with Christina Lamb

Study guides

• Insight comparative guide to I am Malala and Pride
• Insight study guide
• Pearson comparative guide with Made in Dagenham
• Insight comparative guide with Made in Dagenham

Reviews

• Money Life (2013)
• The Washington Post (2013)
• The Guardian (2013)
• Shot but not silenced: I am Malala (2021), Journal of Ethnic and Cultural Studies

Analyses

• Danger and resistance in I Am Malala
• The reclaiming of girls’ education
• Resource guide for educators, Global Women's Institute

Interviews and speeches

• Malala Yousafzai UN Speech (2013) [16 min] 
• Malala Yousafzai Nobel Peace Prize Speech (2014) [26 min] 
• Amanpour's full interview with Malala and Ziauddin Yousafzai at 92Y (2013) [54 min] 
• More video content available via The Malala Fund YouTube channel

Further resources

• Gale Literary sources
• SLV catalogue