Grade 9 Checking Out Me History Lesson (With Comparison to London) Power and Conflict AQA

This lesson covers key content for the poem, three carefuly chosen quotes with steps that students can use to easily analyse them as well as prepared notes, extensive analysis and exploration of context, example comparative points to another poem from the anthology, as well as a writing frame to support all students and make the comparison paragraphs easy work.

Key vocabulary, terminology, and paragraph structuring is included, as are opportunities for students to mark and improve their own work through target codes.

Quotes include:

“Blind me to my own identity.”
“Dem tell me bout de dish run away with de spoon
but dem never tell me bout Nanny de maroon”
“But now I checking out me own history
I carving out me identity”

Works towards:
How do the writers in London and one other poem present identity