1. Wha dem want to tell me
John Agard
Mary Seacole
Toussaint L’Ouverture

2. Big Question
How does Agard present the relationship between history and identity?

3. Literacy Task
John agard was born in british Guiana (now called Guyana) in the Carribean in He mooved to the UK in the late 1970s where he began educating people about Caribbean culture
Source: BBC website

4. Literacy Task
John Agard was born in British Guiana (now called Guyana) in the Caribbean in He moved to the UK in the late 1970s where he began educating people about Caribbean culture.
Source: BBC website

6. History
Haiti
Perspective
British
Jamaica
Curriculum
Caribbean
Truth
Power
Struggle
Story

7. 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)

8. Big Question
How does Agard present the relationship between history and identity?

9. 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…