Y7 The Breadwinner Assessment

Q1: In Chapter 9, who does Parvana meet in the market?

Answer explanation

Shauzia (1)

Q2: What name does Parvana need to call her and why?

Answer explanation

Shafiq (1) because she is also disguised as a boy  (1)

Q3: What is Mrs Weera thinking of starting?

Answer explanation

A school (1)

Q4: Match up the techniques to the correct part of the extract: Compound adjectives

Answer explanation

Long-dead, rusty-brown

Q4: Match up the techniques to the correct part of the extract: Rule of 3 / Triplet

Answer explanation

just piles of bricks, dust, and rubble

Q4: Match up the techniques to the correct part of the extract:  Interesting verb choice

Answer explanation

shaken up, cawed, pecked

Q4: Match up the techniques to the correct part of the extract: olfactory imagery (sense of smell)

Answer explanation

rotting stench

Q4: Match up the techniques to the correct part of the extract: Short sentence for effect

Answer explanation

The sky was dark with clouds.

Bombs had fallen on the cemetery, too.

  Lexical field (group of words) of war

Answer explanation

destroyed, rockets, bombs, explosions

Q5: How does the writer present the setting of the graveyard?

Remember to: 

• Use Point, Evidence, Explanation to structure your response. 

• Use subject terminology where possible 

• Explore the effect on the reader

Answer explanation

1-2 mark

Simple/limited comment

• Simple ideas and comment on language (may not be linked to setting) “The writer says that there are bombs so people have died”

• Use of some evidence to support ideas (for 2-3)

• Simple use of subject terminology (not always appropriately)

3-6 marks

Some understanding and comment

• Attempts to comment on the effect of language i.e. “The writer uses lots of different language techniques to describe the setting. She says ‘’explosions’ and ‘bombs’. These are war words.

•   Selects some appropriate textual detail

•  Makes some use of subject terminology, mainly appropriately

7-10 marks

Clear, relevant explanation 

• Clear, relevant response of setting including some examination of the writer’s methods with clear effects i.e. “The writer uses the lexical field of war to describe the setting “explosions”, “bombs” and “rockets”  This creates tension because…”

• Regular use of evidence to support ideas

Use of appropriate subject terminology

11-12 marks 

Detailed, perceptive analysis 

Shows detailed and perceptive understanding of language

• Analyses the effects of the writer’s choices of language

• Selects a range of judicious textual detail – zooming in on key words in depth i.e. “The combination of the three nouns ‘“bombs”, “rockets” and “explosions” allow the reader to feel an impending fear of attack and implies that they are still threatened by the ongoing violence. It also implies that the people who were attacked stood little chance of survival. All of these weapons are used from a distance, so there is no clear warning that they are coming. This has the effect of…

• Makes sophisticated and accurate use of subject terminology – reference to ideas such as lexical field, sensory description, verb choices etc