To analyse a setting

Key Stage 2

English

The Giant's Necklace by Michael Morpurgo

﻿Hi everyone, it's Ms Henman here. Welcome to our fourth lesson. Today, we are going to read the next part of the story, which is set down on the beach. And so we're going to be focusing on the setting and also going to do a little bit of drawing, just really excited. Okay, let's get reading. So, our agenda for today, we are first going to do some reading and analyse a setting. So think about our impression of the setting. And then we are going to make prediction before our final lesson next time. Today, you are going to need your best learning brain, which means a quiet space, pencil, a pen and a piece of paper or an exercise book. Can you pause the video and make sure you have all of those things and that your workstation is set up in a quiet and distraction-free place. Okay, I think we're now ready, let's go. We are going to read the text and consider the impression. So that's the picture that we painted in our mind that we have of the setting. I would like you to pause the video and to read this out loud. Off you go. Okay, now it's my turn. There were quite a few proper nouns here. So it's okay, if you don't know what those words mean, it means it's a place or a person and you should be able to work out which one, whether it's a person or a place. I'm going to read it to you now. Boat Cove just below Zennor Head, was the beach they have found and occupied. Every year for as long as Cherry could remember, they had rented the same granite cottage, set back in the fields below Eagle's Nest and every year they came to the same beach because no one else did. In two weeks not another soul, had ventured down the winding track through the bracken from the coastal path. My first task, I would like you to spend at least three minutes drawing what you think the scene looks like. So you've got both Cove, which has a beach on it. You've got a cottage which is made of granite, which is a type of stone. And that set back in the fields, and it seems that there's no one else there, and there's very little there. Okay, have a go. Off you go. Okay, you have resumed video. And now I'm going to show you what it actually looks like. So this is a photograph of Zennor Head. You can see that the cliff is really rugged. You can see that the waves are lapping up against the shore and creating this white foam. You can see the top of a very small isolated house. If you would like to pause the video and change some things in your drawings or added some things on your drawings, you may do that now. Otherwise we will continue with our lesson. So I have highlighted some extracts from the text. Rented the same granite cottage every year. What do these extracts suggest? Do they suggest that the place is isolated, special or unique? What do you think? Pause the video and say it out loud. What did you say? So they'd rented it every year. So that doesn't tell me that it's isolated or remote. Is it special or unique? I think it means that the Cherry it's a very special place, that it's part of her childhood and it's something that she knows she's going to continue to do each year. I've now highlighted a different part. In two weeks not another soul, had ventured down the winding track. What does this part of the extract suggest? Does it suggest that the place is isolated, special, unique? Pause the video and say it out loud. That wasn't a full sentence. Can you say it in a full sentence? This extract suggests that the place is, off you go. Much better, well done. Okay, so this extract suggests that the place is isolated, that they haven't seen anyone else around this area, makes me think that it's in the middle of nowhere. Now it's your time to read. This is the next part of the story. Can you pause the video and read out loud please. Okay, now it's my turn to read to you. You can listen and enjoy it, but I would like you to track with your eyes. It was a long climb down and a very much longer one up. The beach itself was almost hidden from the path that ran along the clifftop 100 feet above. It was private and perfect and theirs. The boys swam in amongst the rocks, diving and snorkelling for hours on end. Her mother and father would sit side by side on stripey deck chairs. She would read endlessly and he would close his eyes against the sun and dream for hours. I can really picture that in my mind, that the boys are in the sea, the two parents snoozing on the deck chairs. What a fantastic piece of writing from Michael Morpurgo to help me visualise that so clearly. The extract is, it was private and perfect and theirs. What does this suggest to you? Does it suggest that the place is isolated, special or unique? Well, I think it suggests all of those things. Private, makes me think that it's isolated. Perfect, makes me think that it's special and unique and theirs, makes me think all of those things, that it doesn't belong to anyone. So it's isolated, special and unique. So having read that extract, would you want to go on holiday to this part of Cornwall, and why? Yes, I would because, no I wouldn't because. Can you write a full sentence please. Pause the video and have a go. Off you go. So I definitely would want to go on holiday to this part of Cornwall. It sounds very special. And I've been to a very similar part of Cornwall, about half an hour away. And it was one of my favourite holidays that I've ever been on. And even though it was many years ago, I can still remember it very clearly. And I remember it very fondly. So I would definitely want to go to this part of Cornwall. Would you want to go with someone like Cherry? Pause the video and tell me yes or no and why. Off you go. Okay, now it's my turn. I would like to go on holiday to this part of Cornwall with someone like Cherry or with her personality, because I think we would have good adventures together. However, I might get a little bit frustrated, with how single-minded she is, because I think I would also want to go snorkelling and swimming in the sea and maybe for some cliffs walks and all she wants to do is collect shells. So I think she'd be a great person to spend time with, but I think I might have to persuade her to try other activities, and hopefully, I'd be better persuading her than her mother was. So then we could do some different things together. Now we're going to read the rest of the text from this part of the story. And I would like you to just to enjoy it. Cherry moved away from them and clambered over the rocks to a narrow strip of sand in the cove, beyond the rocks, and here it was that she mined cowrie shells. In the gritty sand under the cliff face, she had found a particularly rich deposit. That means that she had found lots of cowrie shells in one place. She was looking for pink cowrie shells of a uniform length, colour and shape. That is what took the time. So she's being very precise in what she's looking for. Occasionally, the boys would swim around the rocks and into her little beach, emerging from the sea all goggled and flippered to mock her. But as she paid them little attention, they soon tired and went away. She knew time was running short. This was her very last chance to find enough shells to complete the giant's necklace, and it had to be done. I'd like you to pause the video and to read this extract out loud to yourself, off you go. Okay, now it's my turn. The sea was calm that day than she had ever seen it. The heat beat down from a windless, cloudless sky. So it seems to be quite a calm, peaceful day. There's a lot of sun. There's a lot of heat. There's not a cloud in the sky. Even the gulls and the kittiwakes seemed to be silenced by the sun. So the sun was so strong that the birds weren't even able to make a noise. Everyone was almost paralysed and sent to sleep. Cherry searched on, stopping only for a picnic lunch of pasties and tomatoes with the family before returning at once to her shells. In the end, the heat proved too much for her mother and father, who left the beach earlier than usual in mid-afternoon to begin to tidy up the cottage. Why are they tidying up the cottage again? Oh yes, their last day of the holiday and that's why she has to finish the necklace today. The boys soon followed because they had tired of finding miniature crabs and seaweed instead of the sunken wrecks and treasure they had been seeking. So, by tea time, Cherry was left on her own on the beach with strict instructions to keep her hat on, not to bathe alone and to be back well before dark. What were her instructions? Hat on, not to bathe. That means not to swim alone and to be back well before dark. She had calculated, she needed 150 more cowrie shells and so far had only found 80. She would be back, she insisted, when she had finished collecting enough shells and not before. What thoughts do you think are going through Cherry's mind? Pause the video and say out loud. Interesting, I think she might be thinking to herself, okay, I've got 50 now, only 100 more to go. I've got 100 now only 50 more to go. She might be cheering herself on like, come on Cherry, you can do this. I think she is probably really focused on what she's doing as well. So as she collects the cowrie shell, she will examine the length and the size and then decide whether it is good enough to go in her necklace. I would like you to make a prediction. What do you think is going to happen next? So you need to pause the video and using that sentence data, I think, okay. So having read all of this introduction and the buildup, what do you think might happen next? And I would like you to write that down and try and remember to bring your prediction to our next lesson together. Pause the video now, please. Fantastic predictions. We will look at those in more detail next lesson. Congratulations, you have completed your lesson. If you would like, you can share your work with your parents and carers. I think they would love to see your pictures and maybe you can have a discussion, with them about your holidays or holidays that you would like to go on. Have a fantastic day and I'll see you next time, bye.

To analyse a setting

To analyse a setting

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