To box up for purpose

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The Bird and the Forest Fire: recycled story (middles)

﻿Hello and welcome. My name is Mr. Santhanam. And welcome to lesson six of 10. In today's lesson, we're going to be learning how to box up the purpose. This means that we're going to think about all the really important parts of our story and put them into the sections of beginning, middle, and end. And that way we can really focus on what are the important things that need to happen in each part of our story. It will also allow us to really focus on that dramatic middle part, where we are thinking about how to develop and build tension. We do this by thinking carefully about all the new setbacks and events that happen in the story and how to build mystery and anticipation to leave our readers wanting more, To begin our lesson, we're going to think about some really powerful vocabulary that we can use to describe the emotions of the Eagle God, in that middle part of our story. We're going to have a go at my turn, your turn. I will say a word and you will say it back. Maybe you might want to write down those words so that you can use them in your own storytelling. You can also think about what powerful vocabulary are you thinking of using to describe the Eagle God, in the middle part of the story. Okay, let's begin. Compassionate, compassionate. This means that the Eagle God has lots of feeling and he really cares about other people. He's got a good heart, compassionate. Concerned, concerned. This means when you're thinking a lot about someone else and you're maybe a little bit worried about them, or you want to help them , just like the Eagle God wants to help the little bird, concerned. The next one is, considerate, considerate. This word means that you really consider other people's emotions and feelings and you're very thoughtful, considerate. The next one is sympathetic, sympathetic. This word means that you really feel sorry for someone else, and you're really, really aware of the hard things that they're going through. Just like the Eagle God is really aware of the little bird and how she is battling this terrible great fire all on her own, and he feels sorry for her. The next one is despairing, despairing. This word might describe when the Eagle God begins to get really upset and sad about the little bird situation and he's in despair that might make him cry, despairing. And the last one is sorrowful, sorrowful. This word means that you are full of sadness inside and you feel very, very sorrowful. All the happiness is gone and you just want to cry. Sorrowful, sorrowful. Amazing. Now we've got some fantastic new ambitious vocabulary to use in our storytelling. Did you think of any others that you might want to use? Oh, I had some great ideas there. I really hope you keep them in your mind and want to use them in your story later on. Okay for this lesson, you will need your exercise book or some paper, you will need a pencil or a pen, and of course, as always, you'll use your brilliant brain. Pause the video now while you go and get those things. Great, let's begin. In today's lesson, we're going to start off with our spelling activity. We are then going to do our grammar focus, which is all about punctuation. And finally, we will learn how to box up our story into beginning, middle and end. And we're really going to focus on that important middle part, which is where we're going to build drama and tension. Okay, let's find out what our spellings are for this week. The spelling sound that we're going to be thinking about this week is 'tch' 'tch' 'tch'. Do you know any words that might end in 'tch'? Here are the spellings that we're going to learn this week. And do you notice they all end in the 'tch' sound? The word is catch, like catch a ball. Fetch. I throw a stick for my dog to fetch. Switch. Turn off the light switch. Witch. An evil witch put a spell on me. Snatch. We must not snatch things from each other. Watch. I'm wearing a watch. Patch. Let's sit on that patch of grass. Sketch. I want to sketch a picture. And clutch. If you're holding on tight to something, you might clutch it. Pause the video now while you write down those spellings. I know that if I want to learn the spelling really well, I can look at the word, say it in a sentence, write the word, and then check my spelling. Have a go at doing that now. Okay. First of all, we're going to begin with our grammar focus and this week we're going to be learning all about punctuation. What types of punctuation do you already know? Oh, I heard some examples then. Well done, glad that you're using those already. What punctuation is this? This is a full stop. I use this, to finish a sentence. I know a sentence is finished when I use a full stop. Ooh, this one might be really useful for us to use in our writing, when we're writing the middle part and we want to build tension. This is called an ellipsis and I use this to show suspense or build drama. This is a comma, and I can use this when I'm writing a list or to separate clauses in a sentence. This one, I think we all know, it's called, that's right it's called an exclamation mark. And we use that when someone exclaims something, when they say it in a powerful way, or if they shout something. This one we've seen before as well. That's right, it's a question mark. We always use this, when we're writing questions to show that it's not a statement, it's a question. This one is an apostrophe. And we use this to show that something belongs to someone. And these two little things are speech marks and we always use them, when someone is talking or saying something out loud. What kind of punctuation is missing here? The Eagle God wept giant tears. That's a statement, what's missing there. Let's find out. That's right, it's a full stop. Did you get it right? This one, sounds like quite a mysterious sentence. The Eagle God had to do something. It sounds like, we're building tension here, and something seems uncertain using the word something, leaves an uncertainty and we're kind of hinting something there. So what kind of punctuation would we use here? I might use an ellipsis here and a good way of remembering what an ellipsis is, is to think of the sound dumb, dumb, dumb, like those little dots dumb, dumb, dumb. It kind of leaves us wanting more to find out the answer. The next one says the Eagle God was powerful, kind and helpful. I can see that that's sort of like a list, several things that we're putting in a list. So what do you think might be missing there? That's right, it's a comma to separate items in a list. The Eagle God was powerful, kind and helpful. Brilliant. Now that we've done our spellings and our grammar focus, we can have a look at how to box up for purpose. The reason that we're going to box up for purpose is so that we can really focus on that middle part of our story. I know that the middle part of the story is all about building drama and tension. Sometimes we have new events and setbacks things, more obstacles for the characters to try and overcome. Sometimes we slow down time to really build anticipation and leave the reader wanting more. Sometimes things happen again and again and again, and that makes us really want to find out what's going to happen. Sometimes we use vagueness, hinting or empty words, words like it or something that really leave things open to our imagination. And again, makes us want to know more. So all these things go towards making sure that the tension is building and building and building throughout the middle part of the story. Before we have the big reveal at the end, then we find out what happens in the end. But how do we box up our story? Well, you were going to need to separate the parts of the story into beginning, middle and end. First, we're going to think about what happens in those parts of the story. And then we're going to think about why are they there? Are they just random? Are we just putting anything in those parts of the story? or do they have a purpose? Do they help build the story for a reason? Pause the video now, while you have a think about what is the purpose of each part of the story? Okay, here I can see that I've boxed up the beginning part, the middle part, and the end. In this section, I'm going to draw pictures to help me remember what happens in each part of the story. And then here, I'm going to think about why are these parts so important? So I know that in the beginning part of the story, the Eagle God lives in the heavens, This is a cloud. Lives in heavens with the other gods, they're happy. They're all very happy and he's okay there. But he's a little bit sad because they don't really take him very seriously. And they think that his job is not as important as their job. What also happens in the story is that he loves to look down on the forest below, because he loves to look down at the animals and nature because he cares so much about them. In the middle part of the story, this is when we see the fire and the Eagle God gets very worried. This is also when the other gods see the little bird and they laugh at her, ha ha ha. To go back and forth to save her tree. So this is when the Eagle God goes down to help her, and he then starts to cry. And eventually he puts out the fire by showing her that he really cares about her. In the end part, the fire goes away. The forest is saved. The little bird goes back to her tree. And in the end he returns to heaven. But this time, the other gods realise that he has saved the forest and they respect him. Let's say everyone is happy in the end. Now we need to think about why these things happen. We want to have a setting description to explain what what the Eagle God's life is like. We might want to explain that he is not very happy there. Maybe he doesn't believe in himself, and maybe he wants to prove himself. He wants to prove himself. Then, we have new setbacks and events. The fire is a setback, it's a problem, new problems. He shows his character by showing that he's very caring by going down to help the little birds. So we really understand how caring is. And we have the build up towards the solution. In the end, everything is resolved. We find out how the day is saved. and the lesson is learned by everyone here is where we have our learning. The gods learned that he is very powerful. Eagle God learned to believe in himself. And the little bird learned that she saved the forest because she was so determined. And now we have our boxed up story, thinking about the purpose of each part. Pause your video now, while you box up your story and think about what is the purpose for each part. Remember it doesn't have to look exactly like mine. You need to think about what your story is going to be like. Okay. So we've thought really carefully about each part of the story. And we also thought about why we're including those things in the story. So in the beginning, we know that we want to have a setting description, so we understand what the Eagle God's life is like, we want to introduce the characters as well. So we understand who he lives with, what's important to him and what he's missing from his life. The reason we want to do that is that the reader can understand the main character. And we spent lots of time really exploring the main character, the Eagle God. So we want to show that in our story. The middle part, and this is where we're really going to think about the most detail, is where we introduce problems, we show how the Eagle God reacts. So that shows his character and his personality. We show what he decides to do. And the Eagle God helps a little bird and feels very emotional about it because he's so caring and so compassionate. The reason we're doing that is that we can build tension, we leave the reader wanting more, we leave the reader, wanting to find out what happens next, we also want to show just how difficult it is for the Eagle God and the little bird to overcome their problems. Because that's the message behind this story is that they're really trying and they're showing effort and determination, and in that way, it shows their strength. And in the end, the Eagle God's tears put out the fire, he returns to the heavens and the little bird returns to her tree. The reason that this is in the story is so that the problem is resolved and the characters have learned something new by overcoming their problem. Okay, fantastic. Now that we've boxed up our story, hopefully we understand it much more, understand the reasons and the jobs that each of those three key parts of the story have. 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To box up for purpose

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