ABSTRACT
Pupils will use maps, literature and the features of fiction and non-fiction texts including glossaries to piece together the linguistic connections between languages used in the African diaspora. Due to the historically forced encounters between colonisers and indigenous persons in various regions around the world, creole has become a socially familiar linguistic process and mode of communication. Between 1519 and 1867, approximately 5 million African slaves arrived in the Caribbean and the Guyanas. European observers of Caribbean life during this period commented on the constant chatter of the enslaved and their love for formal speech. Hot Like Fire is a poetry anthology which has a variety of genres and themes for children to study. It is a widely used resource in many British primary schools and has been used to allow pupils to study a multitude of childhood experiences.
