ASSESSMENT AND SUPPORT
Assessments in Round 12
22/6 – 17/7
Find out what assessments are happening in the current assessment round, with links to appropriate revision resources where necessary.
Year 7
Creating a character Skill Check
- Revise with this guide
Controlling time in a story Skill Check
- This final Skill Check will be about using timeshifts: you should revise with the guide to creating timeshifts and you may want to look at the WAGOLL for this specific type of task.
Rhetorical devices Knowledge Check
- Revise using the glossary
- Terms to revise: Extended metaphor, Metaphor, Onomatopoeia, Oxymoron, Personification, Rule of three, Simile
Year 8
Using 3rd person limited narrative voice Skill Check
- Revise with this guide
Controlling time in a story Skill Check
- This final Skill Check will be about using timeshifts: you should revise with the guide to creating timeshifts and you may want to look at the WAGOLL for this specific type of task.
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 around a clear thesis Skill Check
- Revise with this guide
Creating an effective structure 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
Macbeth English Literature essay
Writing an opening and matched closing and Writing an opinion 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
- Opinion paragraphs guide
Creating an effective structure Skill Check
- Revise using our guide to creating an effective structure
Discourse Knowledge Check
- Revise using the glossary
- Terms to revise: Allegory, Biography, Direct address, Discourse marker, Fiction, Paragraph, Prose, Suspense, Tension, Unreliable narrator