English Study Maps

Our Study Maps are an exciting new product for VCE English produced only by TSSM. Rather than just summarising the key ideas of each text into notes (which we have also done), we have gone one step further to create a learning aid for more visual learners.  The Study Maps are an A2 size concept map written by VCE English teachers consisting of VCE assessors, state reviewers and published VCE authors.

With our study maps students will:

  • Accelerate and improve their learning.
  • Improve their recall of facts by up to 500%.
  • Mirror brain functionality.
  • Enhance their creativity and focus.
  • Incorporate colours, images and key ideas.
  • Target exam related topics.
  • Connect important concepts.
  • Be provided with a revolutionary new method of learning.

In order for students and teachers to be able to use our study maps most effectively we have created two e-Books that can be downloaded:

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The study maps are available for the following VCE English texts:

  • A Christmas Carol
  • A Farewell to Arms
  • A Human Pattern - Selected Poems
  • A Man for all Seasons
  • A View from the Bridge
  • Blueprints for a Barbed-Wire Canoe
  • Border Crossing
  • Bypass: the story of a road
  • Cat's Eye*
  • Citizen Kane
  • Cosi
  • Collected Stories
  • Context: Encountering Conflict*
  • Context: Exploring Issues*
  • Context: The Imaginative Landscape*
  • Context: Whose Reality*
  • Dear America - Letters Home from Vietnam
  • Don't Start Me Talking: Lyrics 1984-2004
  • Dreams from My Father
  • Fine Line
  • Gattaca
  • Generals Die in Bed
  • Great Short Works 
  • Hamlet
  • Hard Times
  • Henry IV, Part 1*
  • Home
  • I For Isobel
  • If this is a Man
  • I'm Not Scared
  • In the Lake of the Woods
  • Inheritance
  • Interpreter of Maladies
  • Into Thin Air 
  • King Oedipus
  • Lantana
  • Life of Pi
  • Look Both Ways
  • Maestro
  • Minimum of Two
  • Nineteen Eighty-Four
  • On the Waterfront*
  • Of Love and Shadows
  • Ransom
  • Richard III 
  • Romulus, My Father
  • Selected Poems by Kenneth Slessor
  • Selected Poems by Sylvia Plath
  • Short Stories by Henry Lawson
  • Sky Burial
  • Tess of the D'Urbervilles
  • The Accidental Tourist
  • The Age of Innocence
  • The Baghdad Blog
  • The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time
  • The Kite Runner
  • The Old Man Who Read Love Stories
  • The Plague
  • The Quiet American
  • The Reluctant Fundamentalist
  • The Stories of Tobias Wolff
  • The War Poems*
  • Things We Didn't See Coming
  • The Wife of Martin Guerre
  • Twelve Angry Men
  • Voices & Visions from India
  •  Will You Please Be Quiet, Please?*
  • Year of Wonders

* All new titles are available from February 1, 2012. 

We have found a website that produces many different mind maps, that students may also find helpful.  Our Study Maps were laid out by their map creator.  Although they do not cover most VCE texts, they do produce mind maps on study strategies and other applicable topics.  Click here to view their site and for further details.

Context: Encountering Conflict - Study Map

Context: Encountering Conflict - Study Map

The Encountering Conflict Context encompasses the following texts: Paradise Road; The Crucible; The Quiet American; The Rugmaker of Mazar-e-Sharif; and The Secret River.

Please tick two Texts out of the Context that are relevant to your school.
Investment: $24.95

Context: Exploring Issues of Identity and Belonging - Study Map

Context: Exploring Issues of Identity and Belonging - Study Map

Exploring Issues of Identity and Belonging encompasses the following texts: Growing Up Asian in Australia; Skin; Sometimes Gladness; The Member of the Wedding; and Witness.

Please tick two Texts out of the Context that are relevant to your school.
Investment: $24.95

Context: The Imaginative Landscape - Study Map

Context: The Imaginative Landscape - Study Map

The Imaginative Landscape Context encompasses the following texts: Island; One Night the Moon; Peripheral Light - Selected and New Poems; Tirra Lirra by the River; and The Poetry of Robert Frost.

Please tick two Texts out of the Context that are relevant to your school.
Investment: $24.95

Context: Whose Reality - Study Map

Context: Whose Reality - Study Map

The Context Whose Reality? encompasses the following texts: A Streetcar Named Desire; Spies; The Lot: In Words; The Player; and A Streetcar Named Desire.

Please tick two Texts out of the Context that are relevant to your school.
Investment: $24.95

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