Centre/Margin (Periphery)

Centre / Margin (periphery)
 After this lesson:
- Students can explain what centre/margin means.
- Students can link imperial Europe to centre/margin.
- Students can point out centre/margin in a text.

Trigger warnings for "Home":
Mutilation, racist slurs, refugees, sexual assault, violence, war.
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This lesson contains 14 slides, with interactive quizzes, text slides and 1 video.

time-iconLesson duration is: 30 min

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Centre / Margin (periphery)
 After this lesson:
- Students can explain what centre/margin means.
- Students can link imperial Europe to centre/margin.
- Students can point out centre/margin in a text.

Trigger warnings for "Home":
Mutilation, racist slurs, refugees, sexual assault, violence, war.

Slide 1 - Slide

What do you think the concepts
centre and margin entail?

Slide 2 - Open question

What do you think 'binary' means?

Slide 3 - Open question

Can you think of some examples where centre/margin applies?

Slide 4 - Open question

Side concepts
- Imperial Europe
- Colonialism
- Modern Imperialism

Slide 5 - Slide

Imperial Europe
British Empire

Slide 6 - Slide

Warsan Shire
- Born 1 August 1988.
- British writer, poet, editor and teacher.
- Born to Somali parents in Kenya.
- Brunel University African Poetry Prize (2013).
- Beyoncé’s ‘Lemonade’.

Slide 7 - Slide

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Slide 8 - Video

Why does the writer refer to home as ‘’the mouth of a shark’’?

Slide 9 - Open question

Which literary devices do you recognise in ‘Home’?

Slide 10 - Open question

Literary devices
- Repetition
- Enjambment
- Metaphor
- Imagery
- Symbolism

Slide 11 - Slide

What is the centre in this text? What is the margin?

Slide 12 - Open question

Connecting centre/margin to 'Home'
- Close but not a part of
- Racism and privilege
- Center can educate itself
- Bridging capitol

Slide 13 - Slide

Learning objectives:
- Students can explain what centre/margin means.
- Students can link imperial Europe to centre/margin.
- Students can point out centre/margin in a text.

Slide 14 - Slide