An exploration of Scene Seven of Winsome Pinnock's 'Leave Taking'
Lesson details
Learning outcome
I can explain what happens in Scene Seven of ‘Leave Taking’ including exploring its main themes.
Key learning points
- Brod wakes up at Mai’s house after a night of excessive drinking.
- Enid has thrown Brod and Viv out of the house.
- Brod tells Del that her father’s attitude towards her mother changed after facing daily racial discrimination at work.
- Brod tells Del that her mother left her father to protect her and Viv.
Keywords
Vulnerable - If you are vulnerable, you are in a position where people can hurt you emotionally or physically.
Nanny of the Maroons - 18th century leader of the Jamaican Maroons; led formerly enslaved Africans against British colonialists.
Domestic abuse - Behaviour by a person in a family unit that is threatening, controlling, violent, degrading, or manipulative.
Migrate - When you relocate from one country to another.
Discrimination - Unjust treatment of people based on certain characteristics. For example race, gender, age.
Common misconception
Brod's drinking is appropriate and meant to be funny.
Both Enid and Del challenge Brod's drinking, and his scenes expose his unhappiness, isolation and vulnerability.
Teacher tip
Consider how you will read Brod's speech about the domestic abuse Enid endured, and Brod's justification or explanation for it. Questions, class rules and classroom management should be carefully planned.
Equipment
You need access to a copy of Winsome Pinnock's 'Leave Taking' published by Nick Hern Books.
Content guidance
Depiction or discussion of discriminatory behaviour
Depiction or discussion of sexual violence
Depiction or discussion of mental health issues
Supervision
Adult supervision required
Licence
Lesson video
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Prior knowledge starter quiz
6 Questions
Q1.Over the course of Scene One to Six of 'Leave Taking', what do we learn about Enid's husband?
Q2.In Scene Two of 'Leave Taking', we learn about a friend of Brod's who was subject to a racist attack. What effect did this have on him?
Q3.In Scene Two of 'Leave Taking', Brod asks Viv if she has heard of 'Nanny a the Maroons'. Who is Nanny of the Maroons?
Q4.In Scene Three of 'Leave Taking', Enid expresses frustration with Brod, accusing him of spending 'half you life flat-out .'
Q5.In Scene Four of 'Leave Taking', Enid recalls a night with her husband when they had both decided they would migrate to England. She says, 'We sit by we self and through the night.'
Q6.In Scene Five of 'Leave Taking', Viv gives Del the money Enid gave her for her university education. She tells Del that Enid would want Del to have it because 'You're her .'
Assessment exit quiz
6 Questions
Q1.In Scene Seven of 'Leave Taking', what does Brod reveal about Enid's relationship with her husband?
Q2.In Scene Seven of 'Leave Taking', what do we learn about Brod's personal life?
Q3.In Scene Seven of 'Leave Taking', what does Brod say when Del asks him if he loves Enid?
Q4.In Scene Seven of 'Leave Taking', Del says she doesn't want to know about her father's abuse of her mother. Brod challenges her, asking 'Why not?...Because you want to think of her as a ?'
Q5.In Scene Seven of 'Leave Taking', Brod reveals Enid's husband's behaviour: 'If they [colleagues] won't treat him like a human being outside, him make sure she [Enid] treat him like a '.
Q6.In Scene Seven of 'Leave Taking', Brod tells Del that Enid kicked him and Viv out the house, justifying her actions by saying she ' too many people for too long.'
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