The Black Flamingo - L3: What is the Political and Social Context of The Black Flamingo?

This is the third lesson in a scheme of work using Dean Atta’s modern novel ‘The Black Flamingo’, to explore AQA’s GCSE paper 2 unseen poetry component.

The lesson can be broken down as follows:
Focus Five: Recap of historical contextual knowledge.
TASK: Information hunt focusing on Section 28 and UK Black Pride.
TASK: Video on UK Black Pride & Lady Phyll.
TASK: Group discussion, sharing notes made and how these political and social events influences Atta.
Additional optional influences - Ten years ago, Dan Savage and his husband, Terry Miller, launched a project called It Gets Better on YouTube, where prominent LGBTQ+ people make videos to tell younger people that ‘it gets better’. It had a really positive impact on me back then to see happy and proud LGBTQ+ role models
TASK: Creative competition introduced to use knowledge to create PRIDE poster.
PLENARY: Review of learning on roadmap.