CHECKING OUT ME HISTORY By John Agard

Question 1

Repetition of ‘Dem tell me’ tells us that…

Answer 1

It should be important.
British Education keeps telling him.

Question 2

PATOIS

Answer 2

English and Africian language.
Linking his voice to the narrators.

Question 3

Repeats ‘me own’. ‘me own history’ ‘me own identity’

Answer 3

This implies that your history and identity are connected.

Question 4

‘Dick Whittinghton and he cat’

Answer 4

Is a pantomime. He is making British History seem silly.

Question 5

Volta

Answer 5

The turning point, ‘But’ changes the tone from sing song to more serious

Question 6

Short lines in the middle

Answer 6

Short lines slows the ace of the poem. He is recalling a memory. The slowness emohasises hiw hard it is to think of any blck history,

Question 7

Repetition of ‘Tousssaint’

Answer 7

Repetition sounds like a chant. It is confident and forceful.

Question 8

‘vision’ and ‘beacon’

Answer 8

These words contrast the bandages of the British Education.