Year 7 Assessment Overview Assessment Point Content focus linked to SOW Suggested lessons Assessment objective focus Interim assessment one Study of the novel Context of the novel Language analysis Characterisation Structural analysis Themes & AO1: select, retrieve and interpret/infer AO2: explain, comment and analyse how writers use language for effect Assessment one Study of the novel As AO1: select, retrieve and interpret/infer AO2: explain, comment and analyse how writers use language for effect Assessment followed by short study of poetry Poetic techniques Language analysis Themes and ideas AO1: select, retrieve and AO2: explain, comment and analyse how writers use language and/or structure for effect Interim assessment two Shakespeare (The Merchant of Venice OR A Midsummer Night’s Dream) Context of the play Shakespearean language Plot Narrative devices AO2: explain, comment and analyse how writers use language for effect AO5: content and organisation AO6: vocabulary, sentence structure & organisation and spelling Assessment two Shakespeare (Assessment focus: Write a narrative inspired by a quotation from The Merchant of Venice or A Midsummer Night’s Dream) Plot Narrative devices SPaG - Developing vocabulary, spelling patterns, standard English AO5: content and organisation AO6: Vocabulary, sentence structure & organisation and spelling Assessment followed by short study of non-fiction texts (19th, Deducing 19th century language & linking to context Expanding vocabulary AO1: select, retrieve and interpret/infer Synthesise and summarise
20th & 21st century) Deducing a writer’s of view Developing skills in synthesising and summarising AO2: explain, comment and analyse how writers use language for effect Interim assessment three Gothic Fiction (studying a range of extracts from 19th, 20th & 21st Gothic Fiction) Context Language analysis Characterisation Structural analysis Themes & ideas AO1: select, retrieve and interpret/infer AO2: explain, comment and analyse how writers use language for effect Explain, comment and analyse how writers use structure for effect AO5: content and organisation AO6: vocabulary, sentence structure & organisation and spelling Assessment three Gothic Fiction (studying a range of extracts from 19th, 20th & 21st century Gothic Fiction) Context Language analysis Characterisation Structural analysis Themes & ideas AO1: select, retrieve and interpret/infer AO2: explain, comment and analyse how writers use language for effect Explain, comment and analyse how writers use structure for effect AO5: content and organisation AO6: vocabulary, sentence structure & organisation and spelling Year 8 Assessment Overview
Assessment point Content focus linked to SOW Suggested lessons Assessment objective focus Interim assessment one of the novel Context of the novel Language analysis Characterisation Structural analysis Themes & ideas AO1: select, retrieve and interpret/infer AO2: explain, comment and analyse how writers use language for effect AO4: explain and comment on the relationships between texts and their contexts Assessment one Study of the novel As above AO1: select, retrieve and interpret/infer AO2: explain, comment and analyse how writers use language for effect AO4: explain and comment on the relationships between texts and their contexts Assessment followed by short study of war poetry Context of poems Language and structural analysis Creative writing AO1: select, retrieve and interpret/infer AO2: explain, comment and analyse how writers use language for effect AO5: content and organisation AO6: vocabulary, sentence structure & organisation and spelling Interim assessment two Shakespeare (Romeo and Juliet or The Tempest) Context of the play Shakespearean language Structural and dramatic devices Plot Themes and ideas Narrative devices AO2: explain, comment and analyse how writers use language for effect AO5: content and organisation AO6: vocabulary, sentence structure & organisation and spelling Assessment two Shakespeare Context of the play Shakespearean language Structural and dramatic devices Plot AO2: explain, comment and analyse how writers use language for effect AO5: content and organisation