Year 9
CHS Progress Tests Chorlton High School Summer Term Progress Test Information for Students
For Progress Test students will be assessed on their learning from within the curriculum. Below is a list of some of the key focusses for students to use to structure their revision and study at home. Their class teachers will be able to guide them through specific aspects of the Progress Test assessments taking place. Subject
What I need to know
Key words I need to know
English
Poems (poetry anthology): • Human Interest • The Laboratory • First Love • Sonnet 130 • I Come From • Space • Mother to Son • To A Daughter Leaving Home
Verbs of effect: reinforce, highlight, reveal, connote, suggest, show etc. Comparative language: similarly, on the other hand, in contrast, whereas, likewise Language poetic techniques: extended metaphor, semantic field, connotation Structural poetic techniques: enjambment, end stop, caesura, metre, stanza Forms of poetry: sonnet, dramatic monologue, free verse
You need to know how to COMPARE two poems. In the test, two of these ten poems will be printed, and you will be asked to explore the similarities or differences.
Subject
ERP (RE)
What I need to know Human Rights: • What Human Rights are • The history of Human Rights • The role of the United Nations in the development of Human Rights • Examples of when and where people don’t get their Human Rights, and where different rights conflict. Whose Life is it Anyway? • Different views on abortion • Four different kinds of euthanasia • Arguments for and against euthanasia
Key words I need to know • • • • • • • • • • • • • • •
Human Rights Responsibility Inalienable Universal Absolute Right Qualified Right United Nations UDHR Abortion Pro choice Pro life Passive euthanasia Active euthanasia Voluntary euthanasia Involuntary euthanasia