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www.wordle.net. Checking Out Me History. John Agard. Think: What influences our identity?. Starter. Mind map as many names, dates and places you can think of from your History lessons. For example: Hitler 1066 King Henry VIII Shakespeare. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S-sKYhLAQyI.

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  1. www.wordle.net

  2. Checking Out Me History John Agard Think: What influences our identity?

  3. Starter • Mind map as many names, dates and places you can think of from your History lessons. • For example: • Hitler • 1066 • King Henry VIII • Shakespeare https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S-sKYhLAQyI

  4. FORMSTRUCTUREHISTORICAL EXAMPLESMETAPHORSPHONETIC LANGUAGE AND DIALECTFEELINGS AND ATTITUDES

  5. Dem tell me Dem tell me Wha dem want to tell me Bandage up me eye with me own history Blind me to me own identity Dem tell me bout 1066 and all dat dem tell me bout Dick Whittington and he cat But Toussaint L’Ouverture no dem never tell me bout dat

  6. Toussaint a slave with vision lick back Napoleon battalion and first Black Republic born Toussaint de thorn to de French Toussaint de beacon of de Haitian Revolution

  7. Dem tell me bout de man who discover de balloon and de cow who jump over de moon Dem tell me bout de dish ran away with de spoon but dem never tell me bout Nanny de maroon Nanny see-far woman of mountain dream fire-woman struggle hopeful stream to freedom river

  8. Dem tell me bout Lord Nelson and Waterloo but dem never tell me bout Shaka de great Zulu Dem tell me bout Columbus and 1492 but what happen to de Caribs and de Arawaks too Dem tell me bout Florence Nightingale and she lamp and how Robin Hood used to camp Dem tell me bout ole King Cole was a merry ole soul but dem never tell me bout Mary Seacole

  9. From Jamaica she travel far to the Crimean War she volunteer to go and even when de British said no she still brave the Russian snow a healing star among the wounded a yellow sunrise to the dying Dem tell me Dem tell me wha dem want to tell me But now I checking out me own history I carving out me identity

  10. TASK: Individually complete the table on the poem, finding evidence in the poem to support the given statements. Challenge: In the last box, write your own statement about the poem and support with evidence.

  11. TASK: Compare ‘Ozymandias’ and ‘Checking out me History’ in a Venn diagram. Think about the themes of history, power and heritage. Remember to include notes for AO2 (form, structure and language). Venn Diagram: ‘Ozymandias’ on one side, ‘Checking Out Me History’ in another and points for both poems in the middle

  12. Plenary TASK: Write down what you have learnt today on a post-it note, share it with your partner and bring it to the board.

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