CARIBBEAN SECONDARY EXAMINATION CERTIFICATE

SCHOOL BASED ASSESSMENT

ENGLISH
Theme: Dysfunctional Families

Topic: How do Dysfunctional Families Affect the Country of Jamaica?

Candidate Name: Shantoy Heath

Candidate Number:

Center Number: 100078

Territory: Jamaica

May/June 2018
 TABLE OF CONTENTS
SECTION 1
Artefacts

SECTION 2
Plan of Investigation

SECTION 3
Reflections

SECTION 4
Written Report

SECTION 5
Plan: Oral Presentation
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Artefacts
 Shantoy Heath

How do Dysfunctional Families Affect the Country of

Jamaica?
The three artifacts that I have chosen to show the effects of dysfunctional families on Jamaica are
a poem, an article and a video clip.

THE POEM:” The Woman Speaks to the Man who has Employed her Son” – Lorna Goodison

Her son was first known to her

as sense of unease, a need to cry
for little reasons and a metallic tide
rising in her mouth each morning.
Such signs made her know
that she was not alone in her body.
She carried him full term
tight up under her heart.

She carried him like the poor

carry hope, hope you get a break
or a visa, hope one child go through
and remember you. He had no father.
The man she made him with had more
like him, he was fair-minded
he treated all his children
with equal unbiased indifference.

She raised him twice, once as a mother

then as a father, set no ceiling
on what he could be doctor,
earth healer, pilot take wings.
But now he tells her he is working
for you, that you value him so much
you give him one whole submachine gun
for him alone.

He says you are like a father to him

she is wondering what kind of father
would give a son hot and exploding
death when he asks him for bread.
She went downtown and bought three
and one-third yards of black cloth
and a deep crowned and veiled hat
for the day he draws his bloody salary.

She has no power over you and this

at the level of earth, what she has
are prayers and a mother’s tears
and at a knee city she uses them.
She says psalms for him
she reads psalms for you
she weeps for his soul
her eyewater covers you.

She is throwing a partner

with Judas Iscariot’s mother
the thief on the left-hand side
of the cross, his mother
is the banker, her draw though
is first and last for she still
throwing two hands as a mother and father.
She is prepared, she is done. Absolom.

URL:www.scribd.com/doc/9177776/The-Woman-Speaks-to-them-the-Man-Who-Employed-
Her-Son

November 25, 2016

 Shantoy Heath

The Article
Domestic violence on the rise
BY TYRONE S REID Sunday Observer staff reporter reidt@ jamaicaobserver.com

Sunday, November 25, 2007

The rate of domestic violence in Jamaica is on the rise, according to data from the Jamaica
Constabulary Statistics Department. Domestic-related murders, in particular, jumped 20
per cent between 2005 and the end of 2006.

In 2004, the police received 4,149 reports of domestic wounding and 4,568 reports of domestic
assault- 200 more than the previous year. In 2005, of the 1,674 murders across Jamaica, 49 were
domestic-related. By the end of 2006, the police tallied 61 domestic related murders that were
investigated-12 more than the year before.

Overall, according to the police, between 2001 and 2006, 17 per cent of all murders on the island
were committed in the household. For the same period, all domestic offences (including murder,
assault and wounding) totaled 49,047- the highest in a long time. In majority of the cases,
women are the victims.

Assistant Commissioner of Police, John McLean, believes that much of the clandestine violence
happening in Jamaican homes can be attributed to the code of silence that seems to surround this
phenomenon and a breakdown in family values and relationships.

“Domestic violence affects all level of society. First of all, no woman or child should have to
tolerate abuse from any man and when they fail to report the situation to the authorities, it
continues until it gets worse. Hence, nowadays we see that the figures are increasing across the
country,” McLean told the Sunday Observer.

He said some of the causes include dysfunction in families (which leads to a breakdown in
relationship) and lack proper parenting skills among other issues.

“A lot of persons, women especially, tend to cover up the abuse because of embarrassment and
because of financial dependence on the abuser. But if they continue to put up with the problem, it
will only get worse. No one should have to sit back and accept abuse,” McLean said.
Psychologist and Human Relationship Specialist, Dr. Veronica Salter, agrees with McLean,
arguing that as a society we seem to have become immune to violence, which has now begun to
invade and infest the family space.

“Violence is now everywhere and it seems as if we are being de-sensitized to it. We have
experienced so much violence as people that nowadays violence is being used as a means of
punishing people, even in schools. As a people we tend to react violently to situations,
sometimes unnecessarily,” Salter told the Sunday Observer.

“We’re bringing up children without love and proper social nurturing and many of them grow up
to become violent adults. If you do interviews with children from some areas of Jamaica, many
of them have witnessed murders or experienced violence in one form or another. There has been
a breakdown in our family structures that needs mending,” Salter said.

Pastor Al Miller of Whole Life Ministries puts forward similar arguments.

“At the base of domestic violence is the lack of ability to resolve conflicts. Certainly, there has
been a breakdown in moral values and attitudes across Jamaica and this is therefore manifesting
itself in families leading to domestic violence and other forms of indiscipline,” Miller told the
Sunday Observer. “At the same time, I do believe that whatever crime and violence abounds in a
society, there will be increased cases of domestic violence. Indiscipline and lack of self-control
have spilled over into the family setting and as long as crime and violence is rampant in our
society, domestic violence will certainly continue to increase.”

Attorney Margaret Macaulay advises women to leaves abusive relationships, especially when
young children are being affected.

“Many households are rife with domestic violence because in many cases women are dependent
on their male abusers for financial support,” Macaulay said. “Domestic violence destroys
families because you lose all sense of balance. It is not good to stay in these relationships.
Women need to learn how to protect themselves.”

In addition, Macaulay cited the need for anti-domestic campaigns to help families break the
silence.

“There is definitely a need for these campaigns. We had one in Jamaica some years ago and I
believe that there is a need to bring it back because domestic violence is really an endemic
problem in Jamaica.”

“At the same time, women caught in these situations that the law is there to protect them. The
Domestic Violence Act is there to protect them,” she added.

Awareness is also an important factor, according to Donna Parchment, chairman of the Disputes
Resolution Foundation (DRF).
“Though this is a complex issue, there is a need for much more than counseling and mediation.
We need to promote knowledge and awareness about such widespread problems in Jamaica,”
Parchment told the Sunday Observer. “I am not sure about the other offences, but domestic
murders are definitely on the increase. The issue is so sensitive that people have to be careful.
The challenge for women who face such problems is to speak up and seek help.”

URL:www.jamaicaobserver.com/new/129737 Domestic-violence- on-the-rise

November 25, 2016

 Shantoy Heath

The Video Clip- ‘Talk Up Yout’: Gang Violence

This DVD contains an interview done by EmprezzGoulding about a gentleman who was a victim
of Gang Violence. This gang was formed to due to the lack of love and proper social nurturing in
the household so they go in search of that nurturing. Gang violence in Jamaica is steadily on the
rise due to the lack of parenting skills and nurturing.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SBmKaApFUqA
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Plan of Investigation
 Shantoy Heath

PLAN OF INVESTIGATION

The family is the backbone of every society and sometimes we fail to see how

families can affect a society. With that thought in mind my group members and I decided

to choose the theme ‘Dysfunctional Families’ but individually I chose to base my

research off the topic, ‘How do Dysfunctional Families Affect the Country of Jamaica’. I

am from a dysfunctional family and this gave me the driving force to expand my

knowledge on the issue but to primarily focus on how it can affect the society. In

addition, this topic is lacking the attention that it should receive to make people aware, so

this also pushed me to conduct a research on this topic to shed some light on it.

In doing this research I expect to gain many benefits. It will help to develop my

evaluation and interpreting skills because of the information that I would have to assess

in putting this research together. I will also develop team work skills, as well as my oral

and writing abilities. Overall the greatest benefit that I expect to receive is an expansion

of knowledge on my topic.

To collect the required information for this research I intend on using the internet

to discover more data as well as finding resources that portray my topic such as articles,

poem, video clip, etc. I will even go the extra mile to ask persons their views on the topic.

After collecting the data I will present portions of information in my oral presentation. I

will display a dramatic piece summarizing my research and also what I have learnt
throughout the research. I hope that at the end of the project I will have acquired a lot of

information that would have settled my curiosity as well as information that I can pass on

to others.
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Reflections
 Shantoy Heath

REFLECTION #1- THEME

I was given the pleasure to expand my knowledge on the topic,” How Dysfunctional Families

Affect the Country of Jamaica,” in my English Language SBA. My three artifacts a poem, an

article and a video have had a major influence on my thoughts. Their impact will be discussed in

this reflection.

I like to discuss events that occur in my life so being able to expand on this topic even if it’s just

for a SBA. I find great delight in doing so. Before I researched this topicI was excited and

contemplative, upon the completion of my research I felt mesmerized by the fact that not only

was I and others facing these problems associated with dysfunctional families but this problem

has had a greater impact on the society of Jamaica.

I utilized three artifacts in compelling my research- a poem, an article and a video clip. Each

piece of item obtained is appropriate and fitting for the topic. Firstly, the poem has made me

realize that the roles of men and women in society have changed. The woman in the poem has to

be the one to ‘father’ her child because of the absence of a father. In stanza four of the poem it

displays how crime and violence could be on the rise in a society as a result of the negative

influence of unsuitable “role models” with whom fatherless boys have been associated. In

addition, the poem shows that a country can be stereotyped based on the persistent absence of

individuals and reverse of roles in a household. The information discovered in the poem has

made me displeasingly sad as to how our society can be affected by dysfunctional families and

the impact it can have on young children. The poem was a fun way in which to discover

information based on the topic at hand.

The second item used to aid in my research was an article. It was a perfect artifact that I knew

would bring out my topic. When I thought about “Dysfunctional Families,” domestic violence in

families was not the first problem that popped up in my mind but this article surely gave me

something to contemplate. It showed me that domestic violence is real and it is happening but it

is not acknowledged like how it should be. Domestic violence is steadily as a rise in Jamaica as

mentioned in the article and it made me feel like it’s a point of our duty to help break the silence

that surrounds domestic violence. The article presented is very suitable for the topic and it was

informative and educational about domestic violence in Jamaica.

The final artifact presented was a video clip was an excellent addition. The video was based on

gang violence. A gang is a group of individuals who have come together in search of love, care,

trust and other nurturing that is not given at home. This video really showed me how a gang

operates and the base on which they are formed. This goes to show that gang violence in Jamaica

stems from unstable households that can’t provide proper care for their child. In addition, the

young man that was interviewed came from a fatherless home and at the age of nine his father

died. It’s disappointing and I’m saddened by the fact that parents don’t play their roles as

parents. As a result it can affect the society such as, gang violence.

In concluding my reflection the three artifacts portrayed have helped to improve my knowledge

and the information displayed in each artifact has impacted my life in various ways. The content

of each artifact has improved my knowledge on some social problem that is in and around the

country of Jamaica. It was also a great aid in the completion of my English Language SBA. Also

I have been more sympathetic by the new information and it gave me a driving force to assist

individuals who are a part of a dysfunctional family knowing that it can farther impact the

society, Jamaica.
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REFLECTION #2- LANGUAGE

This second reflection of my School Based Assessment will be centered around the effectiveness

of the language that was used in each artifact.

The language used in a piece of work can bring out different reactions within people. People may

feel surprised, happy or angry. But when I read each of the artifacts I was saddened by the

information of the poem, the article and the video.

The poem was organized into stanzas and each stanza focused on something different or an

aspect of what is taking place in the poem. For example, in stanza 1 of the poem it speaks of the

symptoms the woman is facing in her pregnancy. This organization can help readers to easily

understand what the poet is talking about a given time. In the poem the language used was very

relative to the poem and emotive to bring across the message. Also literary devices were used to

aid in the effectiveness of the poem. For example, lines3-4 “for little reasons and a metallic tide

rising in her mouth each morning.” Euphemism was used and it is a subtle way of saying things.

Emjamberment was used in the construction of sentences, so to understand what the persona is

saying you would have to go to the next line. For example, line3 “for little reasons and a metallic

tide” and line4“ rising in her mouth each morning.” The poem was not easy to understand but not

too hard just a little analyzing and I was able to comprehend what the poem was saying.

The second artifact an article was organized into several different paragraphs and just like the

poem each paragraph spoke of a different aspect of the topic. The language used was clear and
easy to understand and each sentence was excellently crafted. The tone was informative and they

used emotive words tried to appeal to the readers’ emotions.

The final artifact used was a video. I could relate to the language spoken. Dialect was used to

communicate and so I was able to understand what was being said. The flow of the conversation

was easy to follow and the tone was reflective.

Throughout this research the language used in each artifact has increased my vocabulary. In

addition, the language used showed me that I need to brush up on my analytical skills.
 Shantoy Heath

REFLECTION #3- PROCESS

This final reflection will be primarily focused on the process that was done to complete this

English Language School Based Assessment. It will also entail how this process has helped me

to become a better person whilst working individually as well as with others.

The first step in this arduous procedure was deciding which theme the group would investigate

and what topic each member would explore. We came together as a group and we brainstormed

several ideas. Finding the theme was not a challenge because we choose a theme that we could

relate to. However, choosing the topic that each individual should do was where I was met with

my first challenge. We had to think about the difficulty and the sense of each topic, this really

aided in my thinking ability, not to think above the surface but in depth and thorough thinking. It

has also assisted me to become more interactive with other, hence my communication skills

improved.

After deciding our theme and creating our topic as a group, each individual had to gather three

artifacts based on our topic and make a plan of investigation. But before I could commence with

the following procedures I was very unsure and doubtful as to how I was going to complete these

tasks but with determination and perseverance I was able to do it. This made the doubt that I

have for myself lessen because completing the work showed me what I’m capable of and it also

taught me how to overcome the barriers in my way to accomplish what I want.

The final processes were to write three reflections individually and conduct a group activity.

Creating the reflection has certainly made me ponder immensely as to what to do. I was not

certain as to what was to be done but with help from my teacher and peers, closely analyzing and
evaluating what is required of me I could complete them. During this process my analytical skills

were surely developed. In addition, it made me appreciative of the help around me.

The group activity was a written report. First we discussed what each person had learnt about the

theme. We then helped each other in grammar and oral abilities. I benefited greatly by doing this

exercise. I became more confident in myself and more accepting and thankful for group work.

In concluding, the process that was taken to complete my English Language SBA has surely

aided me in several ways. I was able to improve my communicating, thinking, analytical and

evaluating skills. These elements will surely help me to be a better English Language student.

Also I learnt to work with others and accept their different thoughts and opinions. I am grateful

for the steps taken to complete this SBA because it has surely made me a better person.
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Written Report
 The Written Report

From the individual researches conducted, each group member selected what was

considered to be the best artefact. This resulted in a total of three pieces- a poem entitled “A

Dysfunctional Family,” an article entitled “JB’s Story,” and a book summary entitled Petals on

the Wind. (See sources below)

Prior to the selection of the three pieces, each group member read through their collection

of artefacts. Afterwards we took turns giving a summary of the pieces. It was recommended that

objectivity and equity be preserved by allowing each member to “nominate” a piece from her

collection. Three were decided on based on their appropriateness and how well they related to

the broader theme.

It was coincidental that all three pieces selected conveyed a story. We chose these three

pieces because of their relation to the theme. Each artefact focused on a particular aspect of the

general theme, so that if they were all put together, there would be no need for the reader to

conduct any additional research, due to the information covering the entire theme of

“Dysfunctional Families”.

The first piece, “A Dysfunctional Family,” was a poem written in first person. This

artefact was chosen because it explores many different causes of dysfunctional families.

The second piece, “JB’s Story,” was a short narrative. It was chosen because it gives a

first- hand account from a person who was involved in a dysfunctional family, and how he

managed to cope.
 The third piece chosen was a book summary, Petals on the Wind. This artefact was very a

very rare piece considering the fact that displays information about dysfunctional families in the

form of entertainment. Normally topics such as dysfunction of any sort would be best displayed

in textbooks

A lot was learned from the investigation conducted on this topic. We learned about the

different causes of dysfunctional families, chief of which are parental absence and abuse. We

now know that dysfunctional families is a disease that affects children’s growth and

development. At the end of the process, we will be able to communicate better with individuals

from dysfunctional families.

References

A Dysfunctional Family

http://www.poetry.com/poems/799976-A-dysfunctional-family

JB’s Story

https://www.nspcc.org.uk/what-we-do/childrens-stories-about-abuse/jbs-story/

Petals on the Wind

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Petals_on_the_Wind
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Petals on the Wind Summary

Plot[edit]

Petals on the Wind picks up immediately where Flowers in the Attic left off: with Cathy, Chris,

and Carrie traveling to Florida after escaping Foxworth Hall. Still weak from the effects of the

poison that killed her twin Cory, Carrie gets sick on the bus. Henrietta "Henny" Beech, a mute

African-American woman, rescues them and takes them to the home of her employer, 40-year-

old widower Dr. Paul Sheffield of Clairmont, South Carolina. At first the children refuse to

reveal their identities, but once Cathy is convinced that Paul genuinely cares and might be able to

help them, she tells him their story.

During the siblings' first Christmas with Paul, Cathy begins bleeding profusely during a ballet

audition and collapses; after waking in the hospital, she is told that they had to perform a D&C

and that the bleeding was due to irregular periods (due to her near-starvation in the attic). Cathy

suspects that the bleeding was actually a miscarriage, the result of her sleeping with Christopher

in the attic, but she does not mention this suspicion, telling herself that it's in the past and all that

matters is her ability to dance.

Though the children thrive under Paul and Henny's care and start fulfilling their dreams (Chris

heads to premed and then medical school; Cathy gets into a local ballet school and then one in

New York City), Cathy is still bent on revenge against their mother, thinking she is to blame for

everything wrong in their lives. Carrie continues to feel anguish over Cory's death and is

embarrassed by her failure to grow properly and the problems caused by her lack of height, while
Cathy and Chris still struggle with their feelings for each other. Determined to live a 'normal'

life, Cathy rejects Chris's advances and insists that he must find someone else to love.

Over time, Cathy falls in love with Paul and they plan to marry, to Chris's dismay. Paul tells

Cathy the story of his wife, Julia, and how she had drowned herself and their son, Scotty, after

Paul confessed to an affair. Cathy and Paul become engaged. Her ballet troupe begins

performing in New York City. Cathy finishes a performance to find Paul's sister, Amanda,

waiting to meet her. Amanda leads Cathy to believe that Julia is still alive and states that she

knows Cathy miscarried Chris' child. Devastated, Cathy runs to a man in her dance troupe, Julian

Marquet, who had been pursuing her since the day they met, and agrees to marry him

immediately. When she returns to South Carolina, it is as Mrs. Julian Marquet. Only then does

Cathy confront Paul about Amanda's message—and learns that Julia had been in a permanent

vegetative state from her suicide attempt at the time Paul took them in, but had died around the

time Cathy and Paul became intimate. Paul also insists that Cathy did not have a miscarriage.

Cathy still isn't sure, but realizes that she has now revealed to Paul that she and Chris committed

incest while they were imprisoned. Paul assures Cathy that he loves her; Cathy knows she has

made a mistake in marrying Julian, but she feels she must honor her vows.

Julian is a possessive husband and jealous of Cathy's relationships with Paul and Chris. He

abuses Cathy, cheats on her, and forbids her from seeing them. He breaks Cathy's toes so she

can't perform. Chris pleads with Cathy to leave Julian, but Cathy has found out she is pregnant

and tells Chris that she loves her husband and wants to make their marriage work, despite Paul's

and Chris' insistence that she must leave for her own safety. Julian has a car accident and is

paralyzed, at least temporarily. He believes he will never dance again and commits suicide in the

hospital.
After Cathy gives birth to her son, Julian Janus "Jory" Marquet, she becomes more determined to

destroy her own mother's life. She packs up Carrie and Jory and they move to Virginia, not far

from Foxworth Hall. Under the guise of collecting Julian's insurance, she hires Bart Winslow,

her mother's second husband, as her lawyer. Meanwhile, Carrie meets a young man named Alex

and enjoys a sweet courtship, until he says he plans to be a minister. Frightened by the memory

of her grandmother's rants about the children being the "Devil's spawn," Carrie purchases

powdered doughnuts and arsenic and attempts suicide. In the hospital, Cathy reassures Carrie

that Alex won't be a minister if it upsets her so much. Carrie reveals her other motive for suicide:

she saw their mother on the street, ran up to her, and was angrily rejected. This only strengthened

Carrie's conviction that she must be evil and undeserving. Carrie dies, and Cathy becomes even

more intent on taking revenge on Corrine and soon comes up with a plan to blackmail her along

with stealing her handsome young husband, Bart.

Cathy refuses to stop, obsessed with making their mother pay for all the pain that the children

have suffered, even after Chris discovers Cathy's plan and threatens to distance himself from

Cathy completely. Though initially focused solely on revenge, Cathy falls in love with Bart, and

he returns her affections. She discovers she is pregnant and believes this will be a crushing blow

to Corrine. Bart is torn between his desire to stay married to Corrine and his wish to be a father

but does manage to put an end to Cathy sending blackmail letters to Corrine.

Cathy returns to Foxworth Hall on the eve of the annual Christmas Ball, in a replica of the gown

Corrine wore to the Christmas party Cathy and Chris spied on so many years ago. She visits the

room where she and her siblings were locked away and sees that it has been untouched since

their escape. At the stroke of midnight, she appears in the ballroom and exposes the truth to Bart

and the party guests. Bart takes Cathy and Corrine to the library where Grandmother Olivia is
seated. At first, Bart believes Cathy is lying, but after hearing Cathy's whole story, he confronts

Corrine. Corrine breaks down, claiming to be the real victim because her father had known his

grandchildren were hidden in his home, and he wanted them to die in captivity. Corrine claims

she gave the children arsenic to make them sick gradually so she could sneak them out to safety

one by one and then tell her parents the children had died in hospital. Bart is visibly disgusted.

Cathy demands to know what happened to Cory's body. Corrine says she stashed the body in a

ravine, but Cathy accuses her of hiding Cory's body in a small room off the attic that gave off a

telltale odor. Chris bursts into the library, and Corrine perceives him as the ghost of his father,

her first husband. She suffers a mental breakdown and sets fire to Foxworth Hall. Corrine, Chris,

and Cathy escape, but Bart and Olivia are trapped and die in the fire. Corrine is committed to a

mental institution.

After Chris drags Cathy from Foxworth Hall he informs her that Henny has had a stroke, and

while trying to help her, Paul suffered a massive heart attack. Cathy returns to Paul, marries him,

and gives birth to Bart Jr. Paul dies when Bart Jr. is still quite young, and on his deathbed

encourages Cathy to be with Chris, who has loved her and waited all these years. Realizing that

Chris was the right one for her all along and that she still loves him, Cathy agrees. They move to

California with the two boys and live as the Sheffields. Cathy dreads what will happen if their

secret is exposed, and the book ends with her stating that she has been having strange thoughts

about the attic in their house and has put two twin beds up there.

References

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Petals_on_the_Wind
A Dysfunctional Family

It's amazing to me

Just how screwed up

Families can really be

See, my dad is deceased

He was the one

Who tried to keep the peace

Within my family

Come rain, come shine

My dad always tried to find

Some way to bring our family together

We often misconstrued

His reasons for trying to be the glue

Within, a family that was already torn

Sitting here, second guessing

He's reasons for trying to restore

A family that's come " full circle"

To have his request for us all

To reunite as a family

Just be annihilated and ignored

Sometimes, I wonder if we can take

Any steps to try and change

To piece back together, " our family"

By setting forth any kind of effort

To somehow begin to re-arrange

A family that is so used to being estranged

By Rena Franklin

http://www.poetry.com/poems/799976-A-dysfunctional-family
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JB's story

Mum made sure I had lots of happy memories growing up. One of my favourite days was spending time

at a soft play centre and going down a slide really fast. I was 6 years old.

I have lots of sad memories too. All of them involve my dad. I didn’t feel very safe. Dad did lots of things

that scared me. He would punch holes in walls and once kicked my brother’s door off the hinges because

he wouldn’t let him into his bedroom. I kept my feelings about what I’d seen at home to myself. School

weren’t very helpful. They thought I had behavioural problems and sent me to a specialist who didn’t

understand me.

My worst memory of growing up happened when I was 9 years old. My dad was shouting really

loud and calling my mum lots of really awful names. I saw him raise his hand to hit her and I

was worried about what he’d do so I got in the middle to protect her and push him away. We

moved out of the house that day and went to stay with my Nana.

I started to pretend to be ill at school so I could go home and be with mum. I was afraid that my

dad would turn up and felt scared about what he’d do.

My school nurse asked Lynsey* from the NSPCC to come and see me. She talked to me about

their Domestic Abuse: Recovering Together (DART) programme and how it might help me.

Lynsey was the first person who spoke to me about the violence like an adult rather than a child.
At the first session I got to meet other young people who had seen the same things and had

similar feelings. I started to feel a bit more normal and realised for the first time that I wasn’t

alone.

My favourite session was where we made a volcano bottle bubble with vinegar and baking soda.

I’d filled the volcano with words that described how I felt about my dad and lots of glitter so that

when the volcano bottle burst it helped me to understand that bottling up things wasn’t a good

idea.

It felt like a weight had been lifted off my shoulders.

https://www.nspcc.org.uk/what-we-do/childrens-stories-about-abuse/jbs-story/
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Plan:Oral Presentation
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Plan: Oral Presentation

Genre:

Speech- I will be capable of executing the oral presentation this way because it’s comfortable,

suitable and manageable for me.

Sources:

1. Poem- “The Woman Speaks to the Man who has Employed Her Son”- This poem is

about a single mother who raised a son hoping he’d be her redemption. She set no

boundaries on he’s career but he betrayed her by becoming a gunman- who’ll soon meet

his bloody demise.URL:www.scribd.com/doc/9177776/The-Woman-Speaks-to-them-the-

Man-Who-Employed-Her-Son

2. Article- Domestic violence on the rise- This is an article portraying the negative effect of

dysfunctional families (domestic violence in households) on the country of Jamaica. It

speaks of the increased domestic violence in

Jamaica.URL:www.jamaicaobserver.com/new/129737 Domestic-violence- on-the-rise

3. Video- “Talk Up Yout” : Gang Violence- This source is about a young man from a,

dysfunctional family, who was a victim of gang

violence.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SBmKaApFUqA
Language of Sources:

1. Poem-

 Emotive words, literary devices

 Analyzing had to be done to clearly comprehend was being said

 Organized

2. Article-

 Standard English, clear

 Easy to understand

 Informative and emotive words was utilized

3. Video-

 Dialect- relatable and understandable

 Reflective tone

 The conversation was easy to follow