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Using context in a 'Leave Taking' essay about intergenerational conflict

I can use context to support my analysis of intergenerational conflict in Winsome Pinnock's 'Leave Taking'.

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Using context in a 'Leave Taking' essay about intergenerational conflict

I can use context to support my analysis of intergenerational conflict in Winsome Pinnock's 'Leave Taking'.

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Key learning points

  1. Context refers to historical, social, literary and biographical information.
  2. Weaving context in your thesis can be a powerful way to start an essay.
  3. Context should be woven throughout your essay.
  4. Context can be used to add depth to your analysis.

Common misconception

Context can't be used in a thesis statement. It must be saved for main body paragraphs.

Including context in a thesis statement is a powerful way to start an essay. It shows you understand the writer's intentions with their work.

Keywords

  • Intergenerational conflict - tension between younger and older people, often in a family, for example a parent and child

  • 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

  • Subservient - when you are willing to do what other people want because you feel you are less important than them

  • Weave - when you embed context into paragraphs rather than including it as a series of isolated facts

Consider how you will assess the quality of the thesis statements pupils write in learning cycle 1. Will you live mark and read out strong examples? Do your pupils need to see another model that you live write? Or will they be able to accurately self-assess each other?
Teacher tip

Equipment

You need access to Winsome Pinnock's 'Leave Taking' by Nick Hern Books.

Content guidance

  • Contains strong language
  • Depiction or discussion of discriminatory behaviour
  • Depiction or discussion of sensitive content

Supervision

Adult supervision recommended

Licence

This content is © Oak National Academy Limited (2024), licensed on Open Government Licence version 3.0 except where otherwise stated. See Oak's terms & conditions (Collection 2).

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6 Questions

Q1.
A generation migrant is a person who was born in one country, but moves to live and establish their life in another country.
Correct Answer: first, 1st
Q2.
A generation migrant is a person who has grown up in a country that at least one of their parents was not born in.
Correct Answer: second, 2nd
Q3.
When writing an essay on 'Leave Taking', you should include context. We can think of context in four different ways. Match the type of context to its meaning.
Correct Answer:literary,the text's genre, style and publication history

the text's genre, style and publication history

Correct Answer:social,the dominant attitudes and values when the text was written

the dominant attitudes and values when the text was written

Correct Answer:historical,what was happening when the text was written

what was happening when the text was written

Correct Answer:biographical,information about the writer

information about the writer

Q4.
In 'Leave Taking', Pinnock presents a number of different conflicts between characters. Match the conflict to the set of characters,.
Correct Answer:Enid and Del,argue about what life is like in Britain

argue about what life is like in Britain

Correct Answer:Enid and Viv,argue about the importance of a gap year

argue about the importance of a gap year

Correct Answer:Enid and Mooma,a silent conflict about the choice to migrate

a silent conflict about the choice to migrate

Correct Answer:Mai and her son,argue about what it means to feel at home

argue about what it means to feel at home

Q5.
Starting with the first, order the conflicts Pinnock presents in 'Leave Taking' into chronological order.
1 - Enid and Del have conflict about the value of obeah.
2 - Enid and Brod have conflict about their treatment by the British government.
3 - Enid and Viv have conflict over the idea of taking a gap year.
4 - Del and Viv have conflict after Viv skips an A Level exam.
5 - Mai and Del have conflict about how Del treats Enid.
6 - Del and Brod have conflict when he tells her that her father abused her mother.
Q6.
In Scene Two of 'Leave Taking', Enid and Del have their most intense conflict. Del is angry at her mother's attitude towards Britain, accusing her of "bowing and scraping to your England."
Correct Answer: beloved, "beloved"

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6 Questions

Q1.
A pupil asks: "At what moments in my essay can I weave in context?" How could you reply?
Correct answer: You can weave context into your topic sentences.
You only need to weave context into your thesis.
Correct answer: You can weave context when looking at writer's intentions.
Correct answer: You can weave context into your language analysis.
You must weave context into the final sentence of every paragraph.
Q2.
Which word or phrase best completes this sentence: 'In a 'Leave Taking' essay, you should weave context __________ your essay.'
lots
at the start of
if you can in
Correct answer: throughout
Q3.
Which different types of contexts can we think about including in a 'Leave Taking' essay?
Correct answer: historical contexts
personal contexts
Correct answer: literary contexts
Correct answer: social contexts
Correct answer: biographical contexts
Q4.
A pupil defines what it means to weave context into a 'Leave Taking' essay. Which is the correct definition?
presenting it as a series of isolated facts
Correct answer: embedding it into a range of different moments in an essay
having a table of different types of context
including all four types of context into each paragraph
writing a sentence about context at the end of each paragraph
Q5.
Tension or disagreement between a parent and child is often known as . Pinnock is very interested in exploring this type of conflict in 'Leave Taking'.
Correct Answer: intergenerational conflict
Q6.
In Scene Two of 'Leave Taking', Del accuses Enid of feeling to Britain, willing to do anything that is asked for her in England because she feels less worthy than its other citizens.
Correct Answer: subservient