Christmas Test

Monday 19 th Total time = 1 ½ Hrs Personal/Descriptive Story-Essay –(60 marks-30 mins) Fiction –(70marks-40 mins) Punctuation Grammar Exercises –(20 marks-15 mins) 5 mins re-read your answers-Correct any obvious mistakes

Total time = 1 ½ Hrs ½ hr Personal/Descriptive Story –Marks will be awarded for: Structure and plot e.g. Beginning/ Middle/End Imagery- descriptive qualities Characterisation (Spelling, Punctuation, Grammar-all sections)

Total time = 1 ½ Hrs 40 mins Fiction (read the questions first) –15 mins- Reading Comprehension with 3-4 short questions: –Marks will be awarded for personal opinion backed up by quotations from the comprehension –25 mins- One essay question based on novel: –Marks will be awarded for personal opinion backed up by quotations –Answering the specific question e.g. if the question is why the novel interests you, gives reasons why it interests you! Because teaches you a lot about coping with loss/healing Because it shows the development of a loving father-son relationship etc. –Showing deep knowledge of the novel-Quotations

Spelling/Punctuation/Grammar mins (5 sentences) 1.there is marys sister joan yeled mary 2.we were told to put our books into bags and go to the principals office 3.john was quiet surprised when he was told he was going to be on the local boys football team. Know correct use of apostrophes, full stops, capitals, quotation marks, commas.

Quotation Test/Wednesday LEARN 10 QUOTATIONS Quotation-example prompts This quote shows: –that Will feels guilty over his sister’s death. –that Tom shut himself off from the community after the death of his wife. –that Tom has healed from the loss of his wife and son. –that Willie was a frightened little boy when he first came to Little Weirwold. –that Willie was struggling to cope from the loss of Zach. –that Willie has recovered from the loss of Zach –Etc….

TOM ‘Tom’s heart sank. He hadn’t been in the shop since his wife died. It was her favourite place. For forty years he hadn’t been able to bring himself to venture into it again’. ‘…after he entered the paint shop, he felt as if a heavy wave of sadness had suddenly been lifted from out of him. Memories of her didn’t seem as painful he had imagined.’ (p.109) ‘He called me Dad,’ he whispered croakily into the darkness. ‘He called me Dad.’ and although he felt overwhelmed with happiness, the tears ran silently down his face.’ (p. 289)

Tom ‘I knows all that. Git to the point. What d’you want?’ (p.9) ‘Come on in’, repeated Tom harshly. ‘I ent got all day.’ (p.10) ‘Since his wife’s death, he hadn’t joined in any of the social activities in Little Weirwold. In his grief he had cut himself off from people.’ (p.79) ‘I’m volunteering, like, he said.’ (p.80) ‘Learnin’ to read and write. I’ll teach you to write yer own name for a beginnin’.’ (p.102) ‘I ent leavin’ the boy with a load of strangers.’ (p. 219)

Will Key Quotes- Beginning ‘The boy was a thin and sickly-looking, pale with limp sandy hair and dull grey eyes.’ (p.10) ‘With shaking fingers Willie undid his belt and buttons, peeled off his mackintosh and held it in his arms.’ (p.11) ‘He hugged himself tightly and rocked backwards and forwards on the stool.’ I must be good’, he whispered urgently, I must be good.’ (p. 13) ‘He was such a bad boy, he knew that.’ (p.13) ‘She only gave him soft beatings.’ (p.13) ‘He was dreading the moment when Mr. Oakley would discover how wicked he was. He was stronger looking than Mum.’ (p.13-14) ‘Them poisonous dogs,’ he heard his mother’s voice saying inside him.’ (p.17) ‘Willie automatically flung his arm across his face and gave a cry,’ (p.17) ‘He was certain he was going to be branded with it.’ (p. 18) ‘All the sudden admiration unnerved him. He felt lonely being so different.’ (p.151)

William-Middle-Key Quotes ‘Mister Tom,’ said Willie touching his sleeve. ‘It’s the best…it’s the best,’ but he never finished. The excitement and food simply welled up inside him…’ (p.115) ‘Do you know, Mrs. Fletcher, last week he laughed. It were a bit of a nervous one like, but he actually laughed. It were the first time I ever heard him do it. Didn’t think he had a sense of humour in him’ (p. 134) It was only when he started automatically to strip it that he realised what is was that was so different. There was no need for the sheets to be washed that day. They were dry’ (p.144) ‘Well done, William,’ she said and Willie welled with pleasure.’ (p.170)

William-Trauma and Recovery ‘My fault,’ he choked out. My fault. I killed her. I made her die.’ (p.237) ‘As they walked home, Will felt suddenly lighter’ (p.243) ‘I ent got anythin’ left inside me,’ he would say repeatedly, for he felt that half of himself had been cut away, that life without Zach was only half a life and even that half was empty.’ (p.282) ‘Better to accept, than to pretend that he never existed,’ he said quietly (p. 287) ‘I’m not half a person any more,’ he thought. I’m a whole one. I can live without Zach even though I still miss him…It was good to be alive.’ (p. 295) ‘Dad,’ repeated Will, in a surprised tone, ‘I’m growing!’ (p.304)

Quotation-example prompts This quote shows: –that Will feels guilty over his sister’s death. –that Tom shut himself off from the community after the death of his wife. –that Tom has healed from the loss of his wife and son. –that Willie was a frightened little boy when he first came to Little Weirwold. –that Willie was struggling to cope from the loss of Zach. –that Willie has recovered from the loss of Zach –Etc….