Wha dem want to tell me John Agard Mary Seacole Toussaint L’Ouverture
Big Question How does Agard present the relationship between history and identity?
Literacy Task John agard was born in british Guiana (now called Guyana) in the Carribean in 1949. He mooved to the UK in the late 1970s where he began educating people about Caribbean culture Source: BBC website
Literacy Task John Agard was born in British Guiana (now called Guyana) in the Caribbean in 1949. He moved to the UK in the late 1970s where he began educating people about Caribbean culture. Source: BBC website
History Haiti Perspective British Jamaica Curriculum Caribbean Truth Power Struggle Story
Contextual Information Toussaint L’Ouverture (leader of the Haitian revolution) Nanny de Maroon (leader of the Jamaican resistance against the British) Shaka (Zulu warrior) Mary Seacole (Jamaican nurse in the Crimean War) Florence Nightingale (British nurse in the Crimean War) Lord Nelson (Officer in the Royal Navy)
Big Question How does Agard present the relationship between history and identity?
Big Question How does Agard present the relationship between history and identity? Tone Dialect Metaphor Syntax Form Agard’s use of a Caribbean dialect helps to create a powerfully authentic and personal voice in the poem. In the first stanza, the forceful refrain ‘Dem tell me’ immediately establishes…