ASSESSMENT AND SUPPORT

Assessments in Round 2

6/10 – 24/10

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

Describing a setting in vivid detail Skill Check
- Revise with this guide

Writing direct speech Skill check
- Revise with this guide

Discourse Knowledge Check
- Revise using the glossary
- Terms to revise: Characterisation, Conflict, Direct speech, Indirect speech, Narrative voice, Novel, Protagonist

Year 8

Selecting relevant, meaningful evidence Skill Check
- Revise with this guide

Analysing language, form and structure Skill Check
- Revise with the first two guides in this series

Rhetorical devices Knowledge Check
- Revise using the glossary
- Terms to revise: Alliteration, Assonance, Listing, Metaphor, Oxymoron, Personification, Repetition, Rule of three, Sibilance, Simile

Year 9

Mini-essay holistic assessment on Purple Hibiscus
- Revise using whichever essay writing guides you need based on your past feedback

Discourse Knowledge Check
- Revise using the glossary
- Terms to revise: Characterisation, Conflict, Dramatic irony, Direct speech, Form, Indirect speech, Novel, Pathetic fallacy, Protagonist, Symbolism

Year 10

Analysing language, form and structure Skill Check
- Revise with the first 3 guides in this series

Linking analysis to big ideas Skill Check
- Revise with this guide

Creating a character Skill Check
- Revise with this guide

Year 11

Full GCSE essay on the Poetry Anthology
- Revise using the revision resources on this page
- Revise using whichever essay writing guides you need based on your past feedback

Writing an opening and matched closing Skill Check
- Revise using this guide

Poetry and drama Knowledge Check
- Revise using the glossary
- Terms to revise: Caesura, Dramatic monologue, End-stop, Enjambment, Iambic pentameter, Sestet, Sonnet, Syllable (stressed and unstressed), Tercet