Starter quiz
- In 'Leave Taking', which characters are first generation immigrants?
- Enid ✓
- Del
- Viv
- Mai ✓
- Brod ✓
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- In 'Leave Taking', which characters are second generation immigrants?
- Enid
- Del ✓
- Viv ✓
- Mai
- Brod
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- When was 'Leave Taking' first performed?
- 1980
- 1987 ✓
- 1995
- 2018
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- In Scene Two of 'Leave Taking', why is Brod angry at the British government?
- because of the Windrush Scandal
- because of the racist attack on Gullyman
- because they want him to update his Jamaican passport
- because he has to pay to become a British citizen ✓
- because Viv is not considered a British citizen
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- In her introduction to 'Leave Taking', Pinnock states "I wanted to make Enid the heroine of the play because I couldn't recall ever seeing such a character [...] as the ______ in a British play."
- 'lead' ✓
- In Scene Two of 'Leave Taking', Brod is angry that he has to seek naturalisation. What does it mean to seek naturalisation?
- the act of moving from one country to another
- the act of getting a passport
- the act of moving back to your country of birth
- the act of making someone a legal citizen of a country they weren't born in ✓
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Exit quiz
- In every 'Leave Taking' essay, you should include context. Match the type of context to its definition.
- historical⇔What was happening when the text was written. ✓
- literary⇔What influenced the text's style or genre. ✓
- social⇔What were the shared values and ideas of the time period. ✓
- biographical⇔What are the life experiences of the author. ✓
- In her introduction to 'Leave Taking', Pinnock tells us she wanted to be an actor, but that she was told she wouldn't be successful because she is Black. What type of context is this?
- historical
- literary
- social
- biographical ✓
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- In her introduction to 'Leave Taking', Pinnock tells us she was asked to reduce her original cast of characters in 'Leave Taking's' first draft to just five. What does she say this allowed her to do?
- develop Enid's relationship with her mother
- develop Enid's relationship with her daughters ✓
- develop Enid's relationship with Brod
- include the incident about Gullyman
- develop our understanding of the play's setting
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- In Scene Six of 'Leave Taking', Mai says, "My grandfather's grandfather came to Jamaica in the hold of a ship." What does Mai mean?
- her grandfather's grandfather migrated
- her grandfather's grandfather was a colonial
- her grandfather's grandfather was colonised
- her grandfather's grandfather was enslaved ✓
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- In Scene Two of 'Leave Taking', Brod explores the lasting impact Britain's colonisation of Jamaica. If exploring colonisation as a way to understand the play, what type of context are you relying on?
- historical ✓
- literary
- social
- biographical
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- In her introduction to 'Leave Taking', Pinnock writes, "Brod's words about having to seek naturalisation [...] echo words spoken thirty years later by victims of the 2018 ______".
- 'Windrush Scandal' ✓
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Key learning points
- Context refers to historical, social, literary and biographical information.
- Context should not be presented as isolated facts.
- Context should be relevant to the analysis and woven in the response.
- Context should develop your ideas and give an insight into the writer’s purpose and intention.
Common misconception
Context must be included in every paragraph.
Context must be included in essays, but where it is relevant and develops your analysis - not as a tick box exercise for each paragraph.
Keywords
First generation migrant - A person who was born in one country, but moves to live and establish their life in another country.
Second generation migrant - People who have grown up in a country that at least one of their parents was not born in.
Windrush scandal - When many citizens who had migrated to Britain between 1948 and 1973 were facing deportation under a discriminatory immigration system.
Weave - In relation to context, when you embed it into paragraphs rather than including it as a series of isolated facts.
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