To retrieve information from a non-fiction text (Part 2)

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Important Scientists - Biographical writing

﻿Hi, welcome back. It's me, Ms. Chu. In today's lesson, we are going to continue to retrieve information from a nonfiction text. Just like our previous lesson, we will be reading through some text, highlighting some key words, and then we're going to be making notes from it. So we need to be super alert, super ready, and then we can begin our lesson. Okay. In this lesson, you will need an exercise book or paper, pen or pencil, and the rest of your notes possibly next to you so that you can follow on from where you left off. Or you could start on a new piece of paper. So when you're ready, we can go on to the next part. You may pause the video to get your things. What's the agenda today? We're going to start with a writing warmup. Then, again, we're going to look at how we will remind ourselves how we collect information. Then, we're going to go into reading some more text about Charles Darwin, retrieving the text, and making them into notes that makes sense for us. What's our writing warmup today? I would like you to change these notes into sentences. I've got "Father: Robert Darwin - doctor. "Mother: Sukey Wedgwood, inherited pottery business." They are notes. They are not full sentences. They are in bullet points, and they're written in note form. How will we change these into sentences that read formerly? Remember, it's a biography, so we've got to change the tone of our writing. We've got to make it formal. This is how I've done it. "Charles Darwin's father, Robert Darwin." So we've introduced who Robert Darwin is. "Was a successful doctor, and his mother, "Sukey Wedgwood, inherited a fortune "from her family's pottery business. "They were incredibly wealthy." So do you see how I've changed my notes and made them into full sentences. But I've also, in the bold, in the blue, green, or turquoise, I've also added words to my notes. I've added "successful doctor," I've added "a fortune," and I've added that "they were incredibly wealthy." So that's something that you can do to your notes as well. You must remember to do that, to add some extra detail, to make it sound more interesting. Now it is your turn to change notes into sentences. Here are some notes. "Huge house - The Mount . "Favourite hobby collecting things: "shells, seals, coins, and minerals." I would like you now to turn these notes into sentences. Use this scaffold to help you. You don't have to use it. You can change them into your own sentences, starting any way you like. Or you can use a scaffold to support you with your writing. "Their mm was located in mm," full stop. "Charles grew up mm," full stop. Pause the video and have a go. Brilliant. I'm so glad that you had a go at doing that. So I asked you to change these notes into sentences. This is something I came up with. I'm sure you've got some brilliant sentences too. "Their huge house," brackets, " "was located in Shrewsbury and had plenty of room "for all six children, along with cleaners and cooks. "Charles grew up collecting things such as: "shells, seals, coins, and minerals. "It was his favourite hobby." So I've got my notes. I've put them into sentences. And I added to my notes too. So the parts in bold are parts that I added in, I gave some extra information. But the rest, I have just rearranged my notes around. Not just following straight from how they're written, but I've thought about how to rearrange them. I hope you did that too. Let's think about how we collect information again. First of all, we read and identify the key words. We take notes of key words and phrases, and we group them into categories. That's what we did in the previous lesson. And we chose how we wanted to collate our information. We either use a mind map, or we chose to write our notes in categories. Today, you can choose. You can continue using a mind map if you used a mind map in the previous lesson. Or if you feel that didn't work so well for you, you could choose to divide your page today into two main categories. Or vice versa. If you chose to split your page in the previous lesson, and you would like to use a mind map in this lesson, then you can do so. Make sure you put two subheadings today. Voyages, Discoveries are the two main bodies of the text. Pause the video now and have a go at doing that. Now we are onto reading and retrieving information about his voyages. Here is some information. I would like you to pause to read. And now I will read it to you. "Charles's next adventure "was a fossil-hunting trip to Wales. "He learned how to collect and study rocks and fossils. "Charles got back home "to find a letter from Henslow waiting. "It was the most exciting letter he could imagine. "A navy captain called Robert FitzRoy "was looking for company on his next trip around the world. "Wanted! Captain's companion for trip to South America. "Happy to live in cramped cabin for two or more years. "Able to pay his own way. "From a good family. "Interested in science, nature, and exotic places. "Able to describe and collect "new types of plants and animals. "This was Charles's chance to explore "the natural wonders of the world "and see the faraway places he dreamed of seeing. "But like all young people "hoping to go on an awesome adventure, "Charles needed permission from his parent." You may pause the video now to read the test over again. And then after you've read the text, you can write down any key words or phrases. Here's what I thought was interesting or important. "Fossil-hunting trip to Wales," "got back home," "exciting letter," "navy captain called Robert FitzRoy," "trip around the world," "South America," "explore the natural wonders of the world," "faraway places." Let's turn those key words and phrases into notes. I've got my subheading, "Voyages." I have now written "Got home from fossil-hunting trip - Wales. "Letter from Captain Robert FitzRoy - trip around the world. "See far away places - natural wonders of the world. "South America." You may pause the video and write down a few of these things if you haven't got them. The next part of our Voyages paragraph, our Voyages section of our biography, it continues. "The Beagle set sail on 27th, December, 1831. "Captain FitzRoy's mission was to survey "the coast of South America, "but there would be lots of short stops on the way." "Charles wasn't the ships only naturalist, "but he took his role very seriously. "Every time the ship docked, "he hired guides and horses and went exploring on land. "He filled notebooks with his descriptions "of new places, people, plants, and animals. "He also sent crates and barrels "full of dead animals back to Henslow in Cambridge." I would like you now to read the text on your own again. After that, write down any key words or phrases. Brilliant, well done for giving that a go. I've chosen to underline "The Beagle sets out 27th, December, 1831," "survey the coast of South America," "hired guides and horses," "exploring on land," "descriptions," "new places, people, plants, and animals." Once again, we're going to turn those into notes. Here are my notes. Under the same subheading of Voyages, but you might want to now make this the second paragraph, because it's about them actually setting sail. So it's a different section. "Beagle set sail - 27th December, 1831. "Survey coast of South America. "Hired guides and horses - explored on land. "Descriptions of new places, people, plants and animals." This is another part of his voyage. This is the part where he comes back to England. Or does he? Let's read it. "On the long journey back to England, "HMS Beagle visited the Galapagos. "At first, this group of islands looked a bit boring, "hot black rocks covered in stubby, smelly shrubs, "surrounded by black sand beaches. "But when Charles saw the unusual animals "living on the islands, he changed his mind. "He spent five weeks exploring and collecting plants, "reptiles, birds, fish, insects, shells, and animals." And there's a picture of an iguana. It's very strange looking. But also beautiful at the same time. And here is a little map showing where the Galapagos Islands are in relation to South America. Now it's your turn to read the text and write down any key words or phrases. Pause the video, off you go. Well done. I've underlined "journey back to England," "Galapagos," "hot black rocks covered in stubby, smelly shrubs, "surrounded by black sand beaches," "when Charles Charles saw the unusual animals," "spent five weeks exploring," "collecting plants, reptiles, birds, fish, insects, shells, and mammals," Turning those into notes. I've got my bullet points. I'm going to let you pause the video. I'm going to let you read that on your own. Now we will read and retrieve information about his discoveries. Pause the video, read the text, and write down any key words or phrases. Now I will read it to you. "He started filling notebooks with ideas. "He wrote to experts around the world "and read hundreds of books. "One book in particular, "Thomas Malthus's 'An Essay on the Principle of Population' "was one of the most important books Charles read. "It helped him realise that living things "compete with each other to survive. "A scientist called Richard Owen worked out "that the fossils Charles found on his trip "were extinct versions of today's South American animals, "a giant sloth, a giant armadillo, "and a guinea pig as big as a hippo! "Once Charles realised that these animals were connected, "he started to put together his theory "that one had descended from another." Descended. Hmm. Come from another. This is what I thought was important. "Filling notebooks with ideas," "wrote to experts around the world," "read hundreds of books," "Thomas Malthus's 'An Essay "'on the Principle of Population,'" "one of most important books," "helped him realise that living things "compete with each other to survive," "animals were connected," "started to put together his theory "one had descended from another." Again, like before, we're going to make these into notes. Pause the video and read through my notes. Now we are onto the last part of the Discoveries section of the biography. I would like you to pause the video, to read the text, then write down any key words or phrases. Now I'll read it to you. "Charles's book about his Beagle adventures "came out in 1839. "'Journal of Researchers' " "became one of the world's bestselling travel books. "The first version didn't say anything "about the amazing idea forming in his head. "In 1845, a new version hinted "that he was trying to solve 'that mystery of mysteries, "'the first appearance of new beings on this earth.'" I have underlined "Beagle adventures," "1839," "'The Voyage of the Beagle,'" "one of the world's bestselling travel books," "1845," "new version," "'first appearance of new beings on this earth.'" And now I'm going to turn them into my notes. My first bullet point, I've got "1839 - book about Beagle adventures. "Later called "'Voyage of the Beagle' - world's bestselling book. "1845 - new version hinted as his theory of evolution." And then I've at my end, "Process of gradual selection "of changes - natural selection." Pause the video if you'd like to pop in a few of these notes as well. Well done. So in this lesson you have collected so much information about Charles Darwin. You read information, nonfiction text, and you've made notes, ready to plan our biographies. Congratulations, you've come to the end of this lesson. If you'd like to share your work with a parent or carer, you may do so.

To retrieve information from a non-fiction text (Part 2)

To retrieve information from a non-fiction text (Part 2)

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