ASSESSMENT AND SUPPORT
Assessments in Round 12
21/6 – 16/7
Find out what assessments are happening in this assessment round, with links to appropriate revision resources where necessary.
Year 7
Character and 3rd person limited Combined Skill Check
In this Skill Check you will be assessed on two different skills at the same time:
- Creating a character: revise with this guide
- Using 3rd person limited narrative voice: revise with this guide
Rhetorical devices Knowledge Check
- Revise using the glossary
- Terms to revise: Extended metaphor, Metaphor, Onomatopoeia, Oxymoron, Personification, Rule of three, Simile
Year 8
Character and setting Combined Skill Check
In this Skill Check you will be assessed on two different skills at the same time:
- Creating a character: revise using this guide
- Describing a setting in vivid detail: revise using this guide
Discourse Knowledge Check
- Revise using the glossary
- Terms to revise: Biography, Direct address, Dramatic irony, Form, Paragraph, Pathetic fallacy, Prose, Suspense, Tension, Unreliable narrator
Year 9
Creating a conceptualised response Skill Check
- Revise with this guide
Creating an effective structure (non-fiction) Skill Check
- Revise using our guide to creating an effective structure
Poetry and drama Knowledge Check
- Revise using the glossary
- Terms to revise: Aside, Blank verse, Enjambment, Metre, Sestet, Sonnet, Staging and stage directions, Tercet, Tragedy and the tragic hero, Verse
Year 10
English Literature essay on ‘Macbeth’
Writing an opening and matched closing and Writing a body paragraph Combined Skill Check
You will be assessed on both of these skills at the same time. Revise using these two guides:
- Openings/closings guide
- Body paragraphs guide
Discourse Knowledge Check
- Revise using the glossary
- Terms to revise: Allegory, Biography, Direct address, Discourse marker, Fiction, Paragraph, Prose, Suspense, Tension, Unreliable narrator