ASSESSMENT AND SUPPORT
Assessments in Round 4
23/11 – 18/12
Find out what assessments are happening in this assessment round, with links to appropriate revision resources.
Year 7
Creative writing holistic assessment
- Revise using whichever creative writing guides you need based on your past feedback
Lexis and semantics Knowledge Check
- Revise using the glossary
- Terms to revise: Antonym, Connotations, Euphemism, Figurative language, Imagery, Synonym
Year 8
Points and evidence Combined Skill Check
In this Skill Check you will be assessed on two different skills at the same time:
- Writing paragraph points: revise with this guide
- Identifying relevant, meaningful evidence: revise with this guide
Analysing language and explaining big ideas Combined Skill Check
In this Skill Check you will be assessed on two different skills at the same time:
- Analysing language, form and structure: revise with the first and second guides in the series
- Explaining big ideas: revise with this guide
Grammar and syntax Knowledge Check
- Revise using the glossary
- Terms to revise: Declarative sentence, Determiner, Exclamatory sentence, Imperative sentence, Interrogative sentence, Modal verb, Object (of a sentence), Relative clause, Subject (of a sentence), Verb
Year 9
Explaining evidence and big ideas/context 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
- Explaining big ideas and context: revise with both guides in this series, especially the context-specific guide
Grammar and syntax Knowledge Check
- Revise using the glossary
- Terms to revise: Declarative sentence, Determiner, Exclamatory sentence, Imperative sentence, Interrogative sentence, Modal verb, Object (of a sentence), Relative clause, Subject (of a sentence), Verb
Year 10
‘A Christmas Carol’ English Literature essay
- Revise using this special guide to answering this question
- Revise using the key quotations for this text
English Language Paper 1 writing question
- Revise using whichever creative writing guides you need based on your past feedback
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
Creating a conceptualised response Skill Check
- Revise with this guide
Explaining and analysing evidence Combined Skill Check
In this Skill Check you will be assessed on three different skills at the same time:
- Making an argument: Revise with this guide
- Analysing language, form and structure: Revise with the guides in our methods series
- Linking analysis to big ideas: Revise with the guide to big ideas
Creating an effective structure (non-fiction) Skill Check
- Revise using this guide
Discourse Knowledge Check
- Revise using the glossary
- Terms to revise: Antagonist, Bildungsroman, Diction, Dramatic irony, Epistolary fiction, Foil (character), Motif, Narrative voice, Positioning, Representation