ASSESSMENT AND SUPPORT
Assessments in Round 11
1/6 – 19/6
Find out what assessments are happening in the current assessment round, with links to appropriate revision resources. Check the full assessment schedule to see what’s coming up later in the year.
Year 7
End of year examination on essay writing
- Revise using the various guides in the essay writing guides section
Structure Knowledge Check
- Revise using the glossary
- Terms to revise: Exposition, Falling action, Flashback, In medias res, Inciting incident, Rising action, Timeshift
Year 8
End of year examination on essay writing
- Revise using the various guides in the essay writing guides section
Rhetorical devices Knowledge Check
- Revise using the glossary
- Terms to revise: Assonance, Consonance, Extended metaphor, Metaphor, Onomatopoeia, Oxymoron, Personification, Repetition, Sibilance, Simile
Year 9
End of year examination on article writing
- Revise using the various guides to writing argue/persuade non-fiction in the writing guides section
Rhetorical devices Knowledge Check
- Revise using the glossary
- Terms to revise: Anaphora, Asyndeton, Consonance, Extended metaphor, Hyperbole, Onomatopoeia, Parallelism, Pathos, Polysyndeton, Sibilance
Year 10
Linking analysis to big ideas Skill Check
- Revise using the guide to big ideas
Creating a conceptualised response around a clear thesis Skill Check
- Revise using our guide to this skill
Poetry and drama Knowledge Check
- Revise using the glossary
- Terms to revise: Aside, Blank verse, Catalectic, Iambic pentameter, Length (of a verse line), Metre, Soliloquy, Staging and stage directions, Tragedy and the tragic hero, Verse