Assessment of Literature in St. Patrick's School

The assessment of Literature in St. Patrick's School is a combination of both formative and summative modes. As mentioned, the Secondary 1 students have external drama vendors coming in to teach them about stage play and techniques. The boys are required to put up a play of one of the plays in the textbook for this coming week. They are required to either improvise or follow exactly on the play. So far, they have already gone through several informal assessments of their plays in class. The official assessment will be part of their CA2 marks. They also had a formative assessment where they had to make use of their knowledge of PEE/OEE in their essay writing for the examination questions on the same play. As for the secondary 2 students, the formative assessment will be based on the students' creation of books of poetry and poetry slams. The summative assessment was on unseen poetry where they also had to use the PEE/OEE method to write a piece of practical criticism. The secondary 3 students do not have much time to go through the formative assessments because most of them take Literature as combined humanities. As, the only assessment for them is summative assessment (term test). I feel that Literature in SPS can be further improved - by bringing them out for field trips and assess them on their observation skills outside the classroom to expand their potential and capacities.