Windrush Poetry - Two Lessons - Call of the Motherland by Nairobi Thompson

These 2 lessons include a range of activities.

Lesson 1 is about students engaging with their ‘first impressions’ of the poem, and helping them gain a good understanding of what the Motherland was/is, and how West Indian people being asked to come to Britain would have had the Motherland presented to them.

Lesson 2 supports students to analyse the poem in more detail and write an essay paragraph responding to the question: Q - How does the narrator feel in the poem ‘Call to the Motherland’?

Windrush Poems are important in the UK in 2023 and beyond to help students and people of all races and ethnicities on their journey to understand the ofiten harsh experiences, tiumph, and remarkable contributions arcoss British society.

Hopefully, more teachers can incorporate these engaging & educational lessons that focus on poetry analysis, literacy, history, empathy and more.