To explore the consequences of a character's actions

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Persephone: creation story (endings)

﻿Hello everyone. My name is Ms. Weerasekera. Welcome to lesson three in unit 14. where we are writing our own creative story. In our previous lessons, we've had a go at story mapping, listening to, stepping and speaking on new created stories. In today's lesson, we're going to dig a little bit deeper into how the events of the story impact each of the characters. We're going to focus on Apollo first, and then we'll go to have a go more independently at doing the other two characters in the story. We're going to be using a fun TV interview style technique to help us do this. I've decided today that because the sun is shining, I'd really like to spend some time outside. I'm not sure whether I'd like to go for a walk in the woods, maybe go around the park or ride my bicycle. What's your favourite outdoor activity to do? In today's lesson you're going to need something to write on, like a piece of paper, something to write with, it could be a pen or a pencil, and your brain, but your brain is already in your head, and hopefully ready to do some learning. If you don't have a pen or pencil and a piece of paper, pause the video here and then press play when you're ready to get started. Amazing, let's get on with it. In today's lesson, we're going to start off with a spelling activity. We've already looked at this rule in lesson one. So I wonder if you can remember what it is? We're then going to move on to an oral game. And this one is called consequences. We're going to do our deepening activity that I mentioned earlier to help us explore how all the events in the story impact our different characters, with a focus on Apollo. Then we're going to do an independent task where you're going to use what I have shown you in the deepening activity and apply it to a different character from our created story. The /er/ sound can be spelled O-R after the letter W. Can you remember any of the words that we've looked at already? We did a picture reveal last time, which was really exciting where I slowly took the squares away and you had to guess which O-R word it was. Can you remember? Well done. Today, we are going to play a word search game. I have hidden lots of words with the /er/ sound spelled O-R after the letter W in here. And I'm wondering how many of those words you can make using the letters in this box. I would like you to pause the video here and see if you can find as many words as possible. When you think you found as many as you can, press play, and I'm going to show you the ones I could see. you found loads of words. You are a superstar. Let's have a look at the words that I found, then we can see if we got the same. Did you manage to find all of these O-R words? Work, world, worm, word and worth. Of course a lot of them have the same three letters don't they? Which means because we've got W, O, and R in there. The rest of these consonants help us to make up the rest of those words. For our oral game today, we're going to play a game of Consequences. This is where we consider the impact of the different actions of the story on the characters. So what was the consequences of something? What happened because of that? Okay. So, I've given you some sentence stems to consider, and I would like you to practise saying out loud what you think the consequences would be. I'm going to model the first one for you. The first one says, Zeus went to Apollo and said... Okay, so each time I'm going to say one, you're going to have to think about what impact that has or what the consequence is, on the next sentence stem. So, Zeus went to Apollo and said, "Please, can you bring back the sunshine "or everything on earth is going to die". I'm going to show you the next one so you can see what I mean. Okay so, Zeus said that, what is the consequences, or what is the impact of that go to be on the next one? The next one says, Apollo replied. I said, what did Apollo reply to what Zeus said. Apollo replied. "No won't do it until I have "my precious harp's back in my hands, "as I'm listening to it, sweet music." And then whatever he said, you need to go on to the next one. I finished it off. Now you can stick to our created story, or if you want to have some more fun with it, you could imagine some different consequences. So perhaps Zeus went to a Apollo and said something different to a created story, or put our replied in a different way. I would like you to pause the video here and have a go at answering. I'm finishing off each of those sentences and thinking about the consequences of each of those events. Press play when you're finished and ready to move on. Fantastic. I liked that some people were using what they had an operated story, and some people were using their imaginations to think of other events that might have happened. How exciting. So we're going to do our deepening activity. So for our deepening activity, we are going to pretend there's a TV interview. So an interview normally has a TV host. So someone who works for the television company. And they have a special guest on. A special guest is someone who perhaps is famous. That other people who are watching their TVs at home want to know more about. So the TV host job is going to be to ask them some really interesting questions, so that everyone who's watching TV can find out more about this person that they're interested in. The person that we're going to be having interviewed today is Apollo. And we're going to make sure that the host is asking them some juicy questions. We want to find out how Apollo is speeding after the end of the story. Okay. So, imagine all of the events not created story have happened, and a TV interview is happening afterwards to find out how these feeding and how he's thinking about what to what on, Can you think of what questions the TV host could ask a Apollo to find out about what he's thinking and feeling. I would like you to pause the video here and think of some questions. Perhaps you could note them down so that you're ready to use them in your own TV interview later. Press play when you're ready to continue. Those are some really good questions. And I think we can use them plus our imagination for our TV interview. These are the questions that I came up with. You may have come up with some other questions that I would like you to hold onto because we can use those as part of our acting and our writing too. My questions are. What did you think or feel when the light left and everything was dark? Who do you blame for the problems you had? So tell me a Apollo. How did you feel about the compromise made? So the compromise is the deal that Zeus and Hades made to split the time of the hop between 12 hours in the underworld and 12 hours on earth. And then finally, is there anything you would change about how it all ended. Before we start writing, We're going to use our acting skills and our imagination to pretend to be a Apollo and to think about how he would answer these questions. I'm going to model the first one for you. How I would use my acting skills. And then you're going to pause the video and you're going to pretend it to be a Apollo, answering all of those questions as if you were him at the TV interview. So for the purposes of this, I'm going to pretend to be both the TV host and Apollo. So, I'm going to kind of change sides. And you'll see. So on this side, I'm going to get my pretend microphone, okay. To be the TV host. Okay. Saying, "what did you think and feel "when the light left and "everything was dark Apollo?" I kind of took move chair go the other way. I agreed to be a Apollo now. Well, of course I I'm in charge of the sun and the light. So it was my decision. But obviously the reason that I took the sun and the lights away was because of how I was feeling. And really, I can only make sunshine when I feel happy and content and for that, I need my harp. And with my harp being stolen away to the underworld. And for me not able to be hearing its music, I just do not have the energy or the happiness to create sunshine. And so I was feeling awful and I did feel guilty that everything was wilting and dying, but really, unless I got my harp back. There was nothing I could do about it. I was torn and I was trapped with that decision. Okay. So I pretended to be both. So perhaps you could get yourself your TV interview and you can ask the questions facing, well, my, and then when you're going to answer as Apollo, you can face the other way. So you're going to pause now and have a go at doing that for the first question, like I just said. But then for the other questions, too, if you thought of any other questions that aren't on here that you would like to include, you can also do that. Oh my goodness. I felt like I am actually in a real TV interview. And you answered those questions with such imagination, personifying Apollo. Well done. I'm now going to model, how am I going to use all of these acting skills and our imagination to create a little piece of writing about this? Okay. So hopefully now we have all done on acting and it's given us lots of ideas for how we can answer these TV interview questions in first person as a Apollo. So, before I get started with the full writing, I'm going to write the unit, which is unit 14. And then lesson three. Then I go to write the lesson objective, which is to explore the consequences of characters. So I suppose apostrophe might remember from our last unit actions. Yeah. The actions belong to the character. So I'm going to right here, TV interview. And I'm going to start with the first question. So the first question, I'm going to use some inverted commas around these because it shows that what is happening is being said out loud. So first question was, what did you think and feel when the light left and everything was dark? The question marks. it's question pose my invert commas. Now it's going to be a new life. Is that the end of the line here, which makes it easier, but it's going to be a new line for Apollo's response. I think as this is a TV interview, to make it really clear. I'm going to leave a line before I start post response. Now, remember this is going to be in first person because we are pretending to be a Apollo answering these questions in our TV interview. So I'm going to use some of the ideas I came up with when I was doing my acting. Well. I I'm in control of the light. So, it was really my decision, but I can only create sunshine when I I'm happy. I'm good to do rhetorical question here. How can I be happy without my harp's, apostrophe S for obsession? Someone will say about the heart sweet music and the sweet music belongs to the harp's. Harp's Sweet music Question marks is rhetorical question. How can I, how can I be happy without my harp's sweet music. Of course I felt guilty that everything was dying, but I simply couldn't create light When I was feeling so empty. And then just going to include my comments there because he's finished speaking. So that is my first answer. I've done the question from TV interview, and this is my first answer. And you'll notice that quite a lot of it is similar to what I said. when I muddled acting it out before, but I changed a little bit since I was going along to improve and redraft as well. Okay. Now I'm going to model one more for you. And then you're going to have a go at either doing these and the rest as Apollo, or if it's up to you, if you'd like to actually answer them as Hades or Zeus, instead. You get to decide. Here's, the second question is to leave a line, who do you blame for the problems that you had. Now, You have acted this out. Can you tell me a few of the ideas that you have for what, who and Apollo would blame for what happened? Hades. I agree. So I think he would definitely blame Hades. Cause Hades is the one who took his heart. Perhaps he would also maybe a tiny bit blame Seuss because you're supposed to be King of all the gods and surely therefore he should be able to tell Hades what to do and get the harp back. And he didn't. So it's up to you, what you would like to put here. I agree with you. I think I would like to say, hi this is well. So if sorry, what I meant to do was leave a line and do my adviser comments as I'm replying. So if it wasn't during a contraction there, so I've joined was not together over disappeared. So put my apostrophe that contraction, if it wasn't for that crew is even adjective Hades. Then none of these problems would have occurred. He shouldn't using another apostrophe for contraction that have joined to the word should and not. And that philosophy goes here because the O has disappeared. You shouldn't be going around and stealing people's, again apostrophe S this time, this is an apostrophe for possession people's belongings because the belongings belong people. So that's answer there. So it's your turn to do your independent task and write down your TV interview. So you're going to have your questions and then you're going to have the answers that you create with your imagination. As I said before, if you would like to do them as Apollo, that's absolutely fine. But if you would prefer to use your imagination to imagine how Hades or Zeus might react, then you could do that instead. Pause the video here and do your piece of writing and then press play. When you're ready to continue. I would love to see your deepening writing you've done today. So if you'd like to share it, ask a parent or carer to take a photo and to post it on Instagram, Facebook or Twitter. You can @OakNational and use the #LearnwithOak. I hope to see you in our next lesson.

To explore the consequences of a character's actions

To explore the consequences of a character's actions

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