ASSESSMENT AND SUPPORT

Assessments in Round 2

5/10 – 23/10

Find out what assessments are happening in this assessment round, with links to appropriate revision resources.

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

Explaining evidence and analysing language form and structure Combined Skill Check
In this Skill Check you will be assessed on two different skills at the same time:
- Explaining evidence: revise with this guide
- Analysing language, form and structure: 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

There are no assessments for Year 10 in Round 2. You will need to start to prepare for your November Test, which will come after half term. There will be a lot of assessments in Round 3. Your teacher will tell you what you need to do to prepare.

Year 11

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, Volta