St. Ann

The Garden Parish of big dreams

Dem call St. Ann di Garden Parish, caa di land stay green an pretty from di coast go op inna di hill-dem (they call St. Ann the Garden Parish because the land stays green from the coast up into the hills). A ya so Columbus did land inna 1494, an a ya so two a Jamaica greatest son baan — Marcus Garvey an Bob Marley (this is where Columbus landed in 1494, and where two of Jamaica's greatest sons were born). Big tings come outta dis ya parish, mi a tell yuh.

Lessons in this parish

• 17. Future: a go / gwine / wi — Talk about the future with a go, gwine and wi, and negate it with naa go
• 18. Seh-clauses — Report speech and thought with seh: Im tell mi seh..., Mi hear seh...
• 19. Storytelling I — Open, sequence and land a story: One time..., den, afta dat, same time — an dramatize wid di cleft: A run mi run!

Culture from St. Ann

• Marcus Garvey — Di Fus National Hero — National heroes
• Nine Mile — Weh Bob Marley Baan — Music
• Discovery Bay, di Taino, an Dunn's River — History

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Proverbs taught in St. Ann

Jamaican proverbs travel; most of these are said all over the island. The parish is where the course teaches it, not a claim about where it started.

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