ASSESSMENT AND SUPPORT
Assessments in Round 3
2/11 – 20/11
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 guide to explaining big ideas since you have not practised this skill in a Skill Check yet
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
Identifying and embedding evidence Combined Skill Check
In this Skill Check you will be assessed on two different skills at the same time:
- Identifying relevant, meaningful evidence: revise with this guide
- Embedding and contextualising evidence: revise with the two guides in the series, particularly part 2
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
There are a lot of assessment areas that you need to prepare for this round. Read the information below carefully.
English Literature November test
You will be assessed on your knowledge of Staves 1-3 of A Christmas Carol. You will also be assessed on the following essay writing skills:
- Explaining evidence: Revise with this guide
- Analysing language, form and structure: Revise with the guides in our methods series
- Explaining big ideas and context: Revise with the guide to big ideas and the guide to context
English Language November test
You will be assessed on terminology from the Grammar and syntax knowledge area and the Discourse knowledge area. You can find all the terms in your Knowledge Organiser. You will also be assessed on the following creative writing skills:
- Creating a character: Revise with this guide to characterisation
- Describing a setting in vivid detail: Revise with this guide to description
- Creating an effective structure (fiction): Revise with this guide to story structure
Creating a conceptualised response Skill Check
In addition to the November Tests, tou will do this Skill Check at the very end of the round to help you prepare for your first Literature essay in Round 4. Revise using this guide
Year 11
Selecting and embedding evidence Combined Skill Check
In this Skill Check you will be assessed on two different skills at the same time:
- Selecting relevant, meaningful evidence: revise with this guide
- Embedding and contextualising evidence: revise with the two guides in the series, particularly part 2
Writing an opening and an opinion paragraph Combined Skill Check
You will be assessed on both of these skills at the same time in this task. Revise using the appropriate guides in the creative writing guides section.
Rhetorical devices Knowledge Check WARNING HARD!
- Revise using the glossary
- Terms to revise: Anadiplosis, Bathos, Polysyndeton, Antithesis, Anaphora, Epistrophe, Extended metaphor, Onomatopoeia, Paradox, Hyperbole