ASSESSMENT AND SUPPORT
Assessments in Round 3
3/11 – 21/11
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
Using 3rd person limited narrative voice Skill Check
- Revise with this guide
Controlling time in a story Skill Check
- Revise with this guide
Grammar and syntax Knowledge Check
- Revise using the glossary
- Terms to revise: Conjunction, Determiner, Modal verb, Object (of a sentence), Pronoun, Subject (of a sentence), Verb
Year 8
Mini-essay holistic assessment on Lord of the Flies
- Revise using whichever essay writing guides you need based on your past feedback.
- You might particularly want to look at the linking analysis to big ideas guide since this is a new skill you’ve not practised before.
Poetry and drama Knowledge Check
- Revise using the glossary
- Terms to revise: Caesura, Couplet, End-stop, Enjambment, Free verse, Length (of a verse line), Quatrain, Rhyme scheme, Speaker (of a poem), Stanza
Year 9
Selecting relevant, meaningful evidence Skill Check
- Revise with this guide
Embedding and contextualising evidence Skill Check
- Revise with this guide
Poetry and drama Knowledge Check
- Revise using the glossary
- Terms to revise: Caesura, Couplet, End-stop, Enjambment, Free verse, Length (of a verse line), Quatrain, Rhyme scheme, Speaker (of a poem), Stanza
Year 10
Making an argument Skill Check
- Revise with the 3rd guide in the series
Linking analysis to context and the writer’s perspective Skill Check
- Revise with this guide
Describing a setting in vivid detail Skill Check
- Revise with this guide
Poetry and drama Knowledge Check
- Revise using the glossary
- Terms to revise: Caesura, Couplet, End-stop, Enjambment, Free verse, Length (of a verse line), Quatrain, Rhyme scheme, Speaker (of a poem), Stanza
Year 11
Making an argument Skill Check
- Revise with this guide
Embedding and contextualising evidence Skill Check
- Revise with this guide
Writing an opinion paragraph Skill Check
- Revise with this guide
Rhetorical devices Knowledge Check
- Revise using the glossary
- Terms to revise: Anadiplosis, Bathos, Polysyndeton, Antithesis, Anaphora, Epistrophe, Extended metaphor, Onomatopoeia, Paradox, Hyperbole