Leave Taking

Support confident reading, thoughtful analysis and focused revision of Winsome Pinnock’s Leave Taking with this GCSE English Literature workbook from Grade9EnglishTutoring.

Combining clear study notes with purposeful activities, this resource helps students move from understanding events to developing convincing interpretations of Pinnock’s dramatic choices.

What’s included:

All eight scenes: summaries, key evidence, close analysis and guided questions.

Character studies: Enid, Del, Viv, Mai and Brod, with attention to changing relationships.

Themes and context: identity, belonging, migration, racism, family, education, cultural inheritance and healing.

Dramatic methods: dialogue, stage directions, silence, props, structure and audience response.

Writing support: essay planning, model analysis, sentence starters and independent practice.

Revision activities: retrieval questions, vocabulary development and suggested answers.

Check and Change tasks: focused opportunities to improve evidence, reasoning and analytical precision.

Scaffolding supports students who need help getting started, while challenge questions encourage more nuanced interpretations.

Suitable for classroom teaching, homework, tuition and independent revision.

Format: PDF workbook. Students will need access to the play; this resource is a companion guide and does not reproduce the full text.