Black History Month
Benjamin Zephaniah
Our significant person of study for this month has been Benjamin Zephaniah and the accompanying enquiry question is 'How did Benjamin Zephaniah use his writing and poetry to share important stories and ideas, in particular the story of Windrush?'
We spent time researching him and linking to our English work, we wrote a detailed biography including all we’d learnt about his life.
We analysed the poems 'We Refugees' and 'The British' by Benjamin Zephaniah (which coincided with National Poetry Day).
Inspired by this, we wrote our own poems about a change we want to see in the world.
We began reading Windrush Child by Benjamin Zephaniah and started to learn about the differences and similarities between Jamaica and the UK.
We learnt about the Empire Windrush and created a storyboard that illustrated the journey of the Windrush generation using key events from history.
Our English unit based around The Undefeated has provided us with lots of opportunities to learn about the American civil rights movement and study influential American and British black people from a variety of different industries in the form of biographies. Follow the link below to find out more.