Jamaica 2

• English
• Further Education (Key Stage 5)

Jamaica Lesson 2

Windrush

Starter Activity

On your boarding pass, write down your own name, and pick a destination - preferably a place you don’t know very well.

You have been asked to travel to that country in order to boost the workforce. You will be considered a citizen of that country, the government has dealt with the paperwork.

How will you feel about leaving home? Who will you say goodbye to? What will they take with you? What emotions will you be feeling?

 

How will you feel about leaving home? Who will you say goodbye to? What will they take with you? What emotions will you be feeling?

Lesson Aims

A01 Inference

1. Infer emotion from video clips of the Windrush Generation
   
2. Develop opinions and write creatively using a range of ambitious emotive language
   
3. Express the emotions of the Windrush Generation in the form of a written speech
   

Word of the day: injustice

00:21

How the passengers appear to be feeling.
Are they excited? Emotional? Serious?

00:15

What adjective would you use to describe this character's feelings?

00:31

How does the second woman view England?

00:57

What adjectives would you use to describe the feelings of the characters at the end of the clip?

This leaflet was distributed in Clapham during the election of 1970, as a Grenadian-born David Pitt was bidding to become the MP. He was already a major figure in local British politics, having served in the London County Council.

 

 

How would you feel if you saw this poster in the country you had moved to?

Reflect then discuss in pairs

You have lived in your new country for years, maybe you built a business, raised a family. Now you are facing deportation, and all because someone screwed up the paperwork.

• What would you think and feel? Would you fight to stay? Or go back to Peterborough?
  
• How are these emotions different to the emotions when they see the poster?
  

Speech task

Write a speech

• either about the injustice that the Windrush generation have faced
  
• or from the perspective of someone in the Windrush generation

Success Criteria:

Emotive language

Persuasive techniques (e.g. direct address, opinion, statistics, rhetorical question, imagery, hyperbole, anecdote etc…)

Mark each other's work

Success Criteria:

• Each instance of emotive language = 2 points
• Each persuasive techniques (e.g. direct address, opinion, statistics, rhetorical question, imagery, hyperbole, anecdote etc…) = 2 points

Extension: Give one piece of positive verbal feedback and one thing you think could be developed!