First of all a couple of apologies:
1) This is later than intended as I badly broke my thumb at the beginning of the holidays and had to have surgery to re-attach it to my hand.
2) Any typos are down to left handed typing.
Your Macbeth / Browning assessment is fast approaching and you need to remind yourself of some of the key parts of your assessment.
We've focused on 8 key skills:
Making effective points
Using and embedding appropriate......
Argument Writing Grade Ladder - Ladders, Pyramids and Cherries
The grade ladders have been useful in targeting top level skills and applying them in our work.
This is a particularly effective way at building your grade because it gives you a hierarchy. If you think of the ladder as a pyramid (too many metaphors?) then you will find most of Rung 1 in your work with examples of higher level skills as you go through to Rung 5 where you will be showing judicious (well judged) examples of top level devices, sentences, punctuation, paragraphs and vocabulary (the cherry on the top of the cake if you will- somebody stop me with these metaphors!).
Overall......
Writing MOT 2014
You will now be receiving your writing MOT that evaluates the skills you have shown in coursework drafts and classwork. Below are the criteria for accessing each grade so you can reference this as you work through your re-drafts.
The key academic language referenced in the vocabulary section is found here
Below E Grade
Spelling - Your work contains frequent errors in simple spelling.
Punctuation - You often use commas where you should use full stops and may miss out capital letters in proper nouns or at the beginning of sentences.
Vocabulary - You mostly use informal language in your......
IGCSE Coursework - Travel Writing
As we move towards the first drafts of the coursework, here is an exemplar piece of work and a self assessment scheme.
A revision activity you could try is using the self assessment descriptors to assess the piece of work below and use it to assess the writing you have completed in class and as homework.
Write down which rungs you think this piece hits and assess where you think you are in the comments below.
ParagraphsRung
The content......
Year 10 - Revising for your Poetry Exam
As part of your revision for the last three weeks before the exam, this post gives you some practice questions and exercises you can do as part of your revision.
First of all if you are struggling with analysis here is a post which talks you through the key stages. See this post before you move on.
6 steps to top level thinking
Questions to check I have enough depth in my analysis
If you are unsure about the requirements of the exam then you should take a look at the two posts below:
The Unit 2 Exam and Advice
What to do to get your grades
In addition there is a great 2hr......
The last Exam question a week post- AQA
You are now 6 weeks away from your exam - have completed your Controlled Assessments and three mock exams and you now are fine tuning your skills for the main event.
Hopefully you've looked at any disappointing results as positives and worked out where you went wrong and how to put things right.
At this point I can point you to this post on marginal gains and remind you that an improvement of one mark per question is an improvement of a grade when you add these together.
The last post has the questions you should attempt and some tips no mistakes I have seen from your mock exams.
First......
