ASSESSMENT AND SUPPORT

Assessments in Round 8

15/3 – 25/3

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

Year 7

Creative writing holistic assessment on Dystopian Fiction
- Revise the creative writing skills you are least confident in

Grammar and syntax Knowledge Check
- Revise using the glossary
- Terms to revise: Determiner, Modal verb, Participles (past and present), Preposition, Tense (present, past, perfect and progressive), Verb, Voice (active and passive)

Year 8

Creative writing holistic assessment on the Storytelling anthology
- Revise the creative writing skills you are least confident in

Poetry and drama Knowledge Check
- Revise using the glossary
- Terms to revise: Aside, Blank verse, Caesura, End-stop, Enjambment, Free verse, Metre, Speaker (of a poem), Staging and stage directions, Verse

Year 9

Writing an opening and matched closing Skill Check
- Revise using this guide, which contains several examples

Writing a body paragraph Skill Check
- Revise using the guide to this skill

Discourse Knowledge Check
- Revise using the glossary
- Terms to revise: Allegory, Biography, Direct address, Discourse marker, Fiction, Paragraph, Prose, Suspense, Tension, Unreliable narrator

Year 10

Grammar and syntax Knowledge Check
- Revise using the glossary
- Terms to revise: Article, Complex sentence, Compound sentence, Conjunction, Morphology, Participles (past and present), Simple sentence, Subordinate clause, Tense (present, past, perfect and progressive), Voice (active and passive)