Language+Analysis

This unit looks at an **issue** and examines how **language is used to persuade**. During this unit, you will learn about a current issue, understand different viewpoints, identify contentions and analyse how language is used to persuade the reader.

The assessment involves reading and annotating two articles, and writing an analytical essay comparing them and critiquing their effectiveness. toc

Capital Punishment Resources
Four Corners video and transcript Wikipedia list of films Screenjunkies list of best ten films on Capital Punishment Ranker best ten Lateline episode on a US legal challenge to Capital Punishment BBC ethics and Capital Punishment discussion #TalkAboutIt: Capital punishment around the world Articles on Myuran Sukumaran and Andrew Chan (from a VCE teacher's Blog) = = Aussie Man Facing Execution in China What Amnesty Have to Say About China Australians on Death Row [|Backgrounder: The other Australians on death row] [|Quiet diplomacy won't stop the death penalty] =__ U.S.A __=


 * [|With death penalty, let punishment truly fit the crime]
 * [|Youtube clip Penn & Teller: Bullsh!t! Season 4 E03 The Death Penalty]
 * [|Youtube clip The History of Capital Punishment in the United States | Will Cain Explains]
 * [|Youtube clip Last Week Tonight with John Oliver: Death Penalty]

Boston Marathon Bombing

 * [|Death Sentence for Boston Bomber, Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, Unsettles City He Tore Apart]
 * [|Allen West - "I Agree WIth the Boston Bomber Death Penalty, EXCEPT..."]
 * [|Boston Herald- Tsarnaev death sentence sends message]

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Analysing Visual Language
2014

2013