Half Caste by John Agard

Half Caste by John Agard

Our Half Caste resource fully utilises PowerPoint as an effective teaching tool; all slides are clear and easy to follow and use a number of techniques to help students develop knowledge and understanding of the poem Half Caste.

Half Caste covers includes a wide range of activities for pupils of all abilities such as:

• a quick biography of John Agard and the social context of Half Caste
• activities to develop knowledge of the ‘narrative’ of Half Caste
• exploration of the key themes of Half Caste (identity, ignorance, prejudice, etc)
• developing awareness of techniques used in the poem
• teaching the use of Point/Evidence/Explain to write about Half Caste
• John Agard’s purpose and the poem’s meaning
• analysis of John Agard’s use of phonetic language in Half Caste
• John Agard’s use of poetic techniques
• developing inference and deduction skills