To read about Walter Tull's family and childhood

Key Stage 2

English

Walter Tull's Scrapbook by Michaela Morgan

﻿Hello, it's Ms. Henman again. I hope you enjoyed our last lesson. If you haven't watched it, please make sure you go back and do that now. Otherwise, let's get going. Let's go through our agenda for this lesson. First, we're going to do a small reading warmup. Then we're going to read about Walter Tull's early life and family. After that we will read about Walter Tull's time in his second home. And finally, we will reflect upon the text and what we have read so far. In this lesson, you will need something to write on, so an exercise book or a piece of paper, you will need something to write with, so a pencil or a pen, and you will need your brain. To help your brain you're going to need quiet space and no distractions. You can pause the video now, whilst you get those things or set up your workstation, otherwise let's get reading. Can you have a look at what's on the page and read all of the words that you can see? Please pause the video as you do this. Fantastic. My first question is what is the purpose of the contents page? So the contents page is the beginning of some books, but not all books. So what is the purpose of this page? Can you pause the video and say your answer out loud, please? Okay, now it's my turn. The purpose of the contents page is to tell the reader where to look for certain parts information or certain chapters. So if I was interested in Walter Tull's time working in football, where would I look? What page would I look on? Correct, correct page eight. If I wanted to find out about Walter Tull's time in the war, which page would I turn to? Yeah, I think I would look at page, say it louder, 14, "Marching Off to War," excellent. Can you look at all the contents page and tell me what day was Walter Tull born? Can we find out that information from the contents page? Pause the video and have a look. We do, we find out that his birthday is 28th of April. Now he wasn't born in 1916, but it seems like there's a few pages dedicated to his birthday that year I want you to look at the page. I want you to study and see everything. There are lots of images, some drawings, some photographs, and there's two paragraphs of text. I'm now going to read to you that first paragraph. Can you follow with your eyes? "My big sister Bertha isn't in the photo. "She died when she was a little girl. "My mom isn't in the picture either." So those are the words which are attached to the top photo. So I want us to consider the author's voice. Is this book written in the first person or the third person? Can you point first person or third person? Off you go. It is written in the first person and what's our evidence for that? We've got me, my, and I. So we're using those first person pronouns. If it was the third person, it would be he or his. So we know the the date of his birthday but can you find out what year he was born? And this is a retrieval question? Look really carefully. Did you find the answer? He was born on the 28th of April, what year? 1888, correct. This is another retrieval question. I would like you to pause the video and to have a look who can you see in the top photograph. Off you go. Okay, I'm going to have a go now. I can see Walter Tull's brother, who's called William. I can see his other brother, who's called Edward. I can see Walter Tull's dad or his father. I can see a baby. I can say, there's a big red circle with "Me!" so that must be Walter Tull and then I can see another sister. Now, this is a question about the author's use of language. Do you think this book is formal or informal? I speak in quite a formal way. Do you think this text is formal or informal and why? Pause the video either tell an adult in the room or say it to the screen. Off you go. Did you tell them your evidence for why you think that? I don't think you did. Can you do that now, please. Pause the video as you do so. Okay, now it's my turn. I think this is informal. I think this for a number of reasons. First, there are contractions, which is when two words are combined together with the use of apostrophe. For example, I can see the word isn't. That is a contraction between is and not, isn't. And contractions are quite informal. Another reason that I think this is an informal text is because it's written in the first person and typically text written in the first person are fairly informal, not always, but mostly. Another reason I think this is an informal text is that there is an exclamation mark after the word me. So if you look at Walter Tull in the top photograph and he's drawn an arrow to it, and then he's gone "Me!" exclamation mark. That makes me think that the author, the illustrator of this book are trying to create a scrapbook style feel, which is quite informal. And with that, we can see some of those doodles and drawings, which also make me think that this book is informal. Finally, we have a retrieval question so that means the answer is in the text. You don't need to make an inference. You can find the answer directly and quote it from the text. What two sad events does Walter Tull mention? Can you pause the video and read the two paragraphs and then see if you can find those two sad events. Off you go. Did you find them? The first one is that his big sister died when she was a little girl, and then really sadly as well, his mother was unwell and she then died as well. So in his early life, there was a lot of sadness that he would have felt and experienced. Can you see the name of his mum? Look carefully. Yeah, it's underneath the photograph. Alice, well done. Okay so we've discussed Walter Tull's very early life, and now we're going to look at his early life and his family. I'm going to read this bit to you. You can track with your eyes, please. "My dad, Daniel Tull comes from Barbados. "It was a long journey across the sea "to a new life in Folkstone. "On the way over he worked as a ship's carpenter. "My dad's parents were slaves in Barbados, "but my dad was never a slave. "He was a paid carpenter and proud of it. "He was a good man and a hard worker, "but he couldn't manage to work and keep the house "and children after my mom died. "So my Aunty Clara came to help run the house. "She and my dad got married and she became my stepmother. "They had a baby girl, Miriam. "So there were lots of us. "We all slept in two beds, "one for the boys and one for the girls." And you can see an illustration of lots of children in one bed. Did anything surprise you on this page? So that might be the words in the text or it might be the illustrations. Can you pause the video and write down at least these two things that surprised you. Off you go. Fantastic. You might want to speak to an adult who is in the room or after this lesson about those things that surprised you. What images make this page in the book look like a scrapbook? Can you pause the video? And either tell an adult in the room or tell the screen, the images that make you think that this book is a scrapbook. Off you go. Okay, now it's my turn. I think the fact that there is a map of the world and someone has drawn over it and put a ship onto it makes me think that it's a scrapbook. I can imagine someone cutting out that ship and sticking it on. I also think the drawing, the illustration of the children in the bed is quite similar to what I might do if I was making a scrapbook of my early childhood, I might draw my bedroom or I might draw my house. I might draw something that was very familiar to me. Okay, now something really sad happens. We've had his sister has died. His mother has died and on the 10th of December, 1897, his dad died of a heart. I'm going to read to you the final paragraph on this page. You can follow with your eyes. "My Aunty Clara, isn't my real mom. "So we are now orphans. "Money is tight. "Stepmom really tried, but she just couldn't look "after all of us. "She has good friends in the local Methodist church "and they have found a place for us. "Me and my brother, Eddie are being sent away "on Valentine's day to be looked after "at a Methodist Children's Home." I would like you now to pause the video and read the text out loud. Off you go, please. Fantastic reading. Now I would like you to pause the video and write down three pieces of information that you have learnt in this short paragraph about Walter Tull's life. Pause the video and do that now, off you go. I wonder what you wrote down. Here are three things that I wrote down. Walter's dad sadly died. Walter is now an orphan which means he has no living parents and he is going to a religious home for orphan children. So this children's home there will be lots of other children in the home, who are also orphans. Now we are going to read about his time in an orphanage. Before we do that, let's just go back to this contents page. We have read page four. That was his very early life and about his family. What page do you think we're going to be looking at now? Can you tell me by the screen please? So we finished with page four and now we need to turn to page, six , excellent, thanks. Can you read the title to me? Thank you, "The Home 1898 to 1900." So it looks like he spent two years there and then we've got the address. Bonner Road Children's Home Hackney, care of Dr. Stephenson. So I'm thinking that Dr. Stephenson is the man who might look after all the children in this home. I am going to read to you the first paragraph. You can track with your eyes. "The children's home is miles away in London. "It's our first train journey ever "and the first time we'd ever been out of Folkstone. "The East End of London is very different "from where we grew up. "Everything is big and noisy. "It's exciting, but frightening too. "I tried to be brave when our stepmom waved goodbye "and we went through the big iron gates into our new home." Can you now read the second paragraph out loud, please. Pause the video as you do that. Fantastic reading, there's one word in inverted commas. Can you find that word? Excellent, it's sister. A sister might be a nurse or a nun, and she would have been one of the adults who looked after the children in the home. Walter Tull used to live in Folkstone, which is in Kent with his family. Where does he live now? I'm giving you a hint, you want to look for proper nouns. A proper noun is a person or a place, and it has a capital letter so that you know it's a proper noun. Can you pause the video and say out loud, where Walter Tull now lives, off you go? I hope you said it in a full sentence. I'm going to say in a full sentence. Walter Tull lives in the East End of London and I can see that capital letter for East End and that capital letter for London. I can build on that you may have also said this. He lives on Bonner Road, capital letter, capital letter, in a place of London, capital letter, called Hackney, capital letter. So we know where he is now living. How did Walter feel about his new life? I want you to pause the video and look for some evidence that tells you how he felt when he moved into his new home. I'm going to give you a clue, you need to look in the first paragraph, off you go. So I think he felt two things. I think he felt excited, but also frightened. And often we do feel a mixture of emotions. My next question is why do you think Walter tried to be brave? So it says in the text that he tried to be brave. Why do you think he tried to be brave? My hint for this is find that phrase, "be brave" in the text and reread the sentence. Can you pause the video and then say your answer out loud once you have decided what it is? I found it, it says, "I tried to be brave "when our stepmom waved goodbye." So I think him being brave is something to do with his stepmom being there. I think he was trying to be brave because it's a very sad time for both of them and he didn't want to make his stepmom feel more sad by crying in front of her. I've made that inference from the text and also my knowledge of when people feel sad and when people are trying to be brave. I would like you to study all the images on the page. I can see some photographs. I can see a stain. I can see some of his handwriting. Okay, I would now like you to pause the video and to read that final paragraph it starts with, "there are 320 children," off you go. Fantastic reading, well done. My question for you is how does Walter spend his time at this children's home? This is a retrieval question. Can you pause the video and say out loud, please? So it seems like he goes to lessons. He then has two hours off in the evening and during that time he plays cricket and football. So it seems like he has a pretty busy day. I'd like to know from you. What's your favourite part of this page? What's your favourite thing? Can you pause the video and say it out loud? Now I'm going to tell you mine. My favourite thing is the photograph in the middle and it seems to be the school team, maybe it's the football team or the cricket team, I can't tell and I just quite like it because Walter Tull looks a little bit cheeky in the middle. He's got his arms crossed and he's striking a pose. And I think the two children, either side of him are doing something similar. And I think that gives me a sense of his personality and so that's my favourite part of the page. I do also quite like the stain. So it looks like it's maybe from a cup of tea or the ring around the grass and I think that makes me as the reader think that this is a scrapbook. Now we're going to reflect on the text and what we've read so far. Walter Tull had family and early life. We have to fill in the blanks. Walter Tull had to complicated family and early life, Walter Tull had a small family and early life, Walter Tull had a tragic family, early life, which ones of these are true? Can you pause the video and have a think? Do that now, please. So two of them are true. Walter Tull did have a complicated family life. He had a large family and lots of sad things happened and he ended up in an orphanage. And so there were lots of ups and downs in his life and I think that's all quite complicated. Tragic has a synonym for sad. So he had lots of tragic events happen in his early life and so that one is also true. He did not have a small family. He had a lot of siblings. Walter Tull had family in Barbados, Bonner Road, or Kent. Which ones of these are true. Pause the video and have a think. What did you decide? Were you a bit confused? Well, it's because they're all true. So his father's parents lived in Barbados and his father used to live in Barbados. So at some point he had family there. Bonner road is the name of the road where the children's home was and his brother went there with him. So he also had a family member there with him and when he was younger, his family were in Kent. So at some point he also had family in Kent. He was a bit of a trick question from me. These are my final two questions. If you were to make a scrapbook of your life so far, what important events would you include? But I'm also interested in what less important events would you include? Something that's special to you, but maybe isn't that important. So can you pause the video and I'd like you to create a mind map or to jot down some of your ideas of what you would want to include in your own personal scrapbook? I think this task is going to take you about two minutes. Off you go. Wow, I really hope I get to see some of those. Congratulations, you have completed this lesson. I so look forward to teaching you next lesson and I hope you have a fantastic day. Bye.

To read about Walter Tull's family and childhood

To read about Walter Tull's family and childhood

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