Context and Introduction to Annie John
In this lesson, we will learn about 'Annie John', an incredible coming-of-age story set in the Caribbean. In this first lesson of the unit, we'll learn about the novel, its author and its setting.
Unit Overview: Annie John by Jamaica Kincaid
For next step we recommend the unit: Creative writing: memoir.
For next step we recommend the unit: Oliver Twist: Oliver and the Consequences.
Lessons:
13 lessons
Annie John's Fascinations and Fears
In this lesson, we will find out what terrifies and fascinates Annie in equal measure as she turns ten years old.
Mothers and Daughters
In this lesson, we will explore how relationships become strained in Annie's household.
Annie John's school
In this lesson, we will explore how Kincaid uses rich and vivid imagery to bring Annie's first day at high school to life.
Annie John's memoir
In this lesson, we will learn about a personal story Annie shares at school. We will see how her whole class is captivated and we'll find out what she writes about and how it is both happy and sad.
Annie John and the Red Girl
In this lesson, we will find out about how Annie makes friends with the dirty, barefooted Red Girl. We will find out that she has to keep her friendship with the Red Girl a secret from her family and we will learn why Annie likes her so much.
Breaking the rules
In this lesson, we will read about Annie's rebellion. We will explore how and why Annie rebels against authority as she grows older.
Columbus in Chains
In this lesson, we will see how Annie questions her school curriculum and challenges the colonial narratives imposed upon her.
Blessings and adversity
In this lesson, we will analyse the language Kincaid uses to bring Annie's changing feelings to life.
The Argument
In this lesson, we we will explore an argument between Annie and her mother that will lead to a dramatic turning point.
The Long Rain
In this lesson, we will learn about why Annie is miserable during the long rain and how she might be able to overcome her problems.
I Am Annie John
In this lesson, we will explore the dramatic ending to the novel, and consider how growing up is both exciting and painful.
Writing about Annie John
In this lesson, we will put all our knowledge of Kincaid's novel 'Annie John' together in writing an impressive essay about coming-of-age in the novel.
Units in English
- The Oral Tradition
- Epic Poetry
- The Canterbury Tales: 'General Prologue'
- The Refugee Tales: 'Prologue', ed. Anna Pincus and David Herd
- The Canterbury Tales: 'The Knight's Tale', Chaucer
- Telling Tales, Patience Agbabi
- A Midsummer Night's Dream, Shakespeare (Introduction and Act 1)
- A Midsummer Night's Dream, Shakespeare (Act 2)
- A Midsummer Night's Dream, Shakespeare (Act 3)
- A Midsummer Night's Dream, Shakespeare (Act 4&5)
- Contemporary Short Stories (1/2): The Story of an Hour by Kate Chopin
- Contemporary Short Stories (2/2): Sweetness by Toni Morrison
- Introduction to poetry
- The sonnet through time: Introduction to the sonnet
- The sonnet through time: 'Sonnet 18', Shakespeare
- The sonnet through time: 'Death, be not proud', Donne
- The sonnet through time: 'If thou must love me', Barrett-Browning
- The sonnet through time: 'If we must die', Claude McKay
- The sonnet through time: 'The sonnet-ballad', Gwendolyn Brooks
- Creative writing: short stories
- Creative writing: poetry
- Recapping the basics: simple sentences, statements, paragraphs, capital letters and past simple verbs
- Complex sentences, avoiding fragments and run-ons, capital letters
- Past simple tense, subordinate clauses, punctuating conjunctions and lists
- Writing accurate, correctly punctuated and paragraphed dialogue, using personal pronouns
- Avoiding fragments, fused sentences and comma splices. Using capital letters and writing in the past tense. Using multiple subordinate clauses, punctuating lists correctly when in a complex sentence.
- Paragraphing narratives for clarity, using possessive pronouns, using apostrophes accurately, structuring, writing and editing genre-specific narratives
- Introduction to Tragedy
- Julius Caesar, Shakespeare, Act 1
- Julius Caesar, Shakespeare, Act 2
- Julius Caesar, Shakespeare, Act 3
- Julius Caesar, Shakespeare, Act 4 and 5
- Romantic poetry and paired texts: Introduction to the Romantics
- Romantic poetry and paired texts: Romanticism and Nature
- Romantic poetry and paired texts: Nature poetry
- Romantic poetry and paired texts: Romanticism and Revolution
- Romantic poetry and paired texts: Revolutionary and Protest poetry
- Oliver Twist: Oliver and the Workhouse
- Oliver Twist: Oliver Heads to London
- Oliver Twist: Oliver is Caught
- Oliver Twist: Oliver, Bill & The Maylies
- Oliver Twist: Oliver and the Consequences
- Annie John by Jamaica Kincaid
- Creative writing: memoir
- Rhetoric: Introduction to rhetoric
- Rhetoric: Injustice: Pankhurst & Sojourner Truth
- Rhetoric: Change: Michelle Obama & Lennie James
- Rhetoric: Motivate: Churchill & Gandhi
- Rhetoric: Writing rhetoric
- Shakespearean Comedy - The Tempest
- Language Skills - Fiction - Reading
- Language Skills - Fiction - Writing
- Language Skills - Non-Fiction - Reading
- Language Skills - Non-Fiction - Writing
- Grammar for Writing
- The Short Story
- Gothic Literature
- Fiction: Reading and descriptive writing
- Non-Fiction texts and view point writing
- Jane Eyre
- Animal Farm
- Paragraphing non-fiction writing, including presenting a balanced argument