Lesson video

Hello.

It's me, Ms. Henman again.

We are in our third lesson, and today we are going to carry on reading the next part of the story.

And we're going to meet Cherry's brothers.

Let's look at our agenda for today.

First, we are going to continue with our character inferences and understanding of Cherry's personality.

I'm going to make some links to other books.

Then we are going to read the next part of the text and we are going to focus on author's use of language.

Then we're going to continue with our character inferences, and finally, I'm going to do some more language links.

Today we're focusing on character and language.

In this lesson you will need an exercise book or paper, a pencil or something else to write with, and you will need to use your brains.

I hope you've got your best learning brain with you today.

If you don't have these things, pause the video now, go set up your workstation and then resume when you're ready.

Lets get learning.

I would like you to think back to our previous lesson and to write down an adjective that you think is an appropriate one to describe Cherry.

You might be able to remember the adjectives we came up with in our previous lesson, or you might have your own.

I would like you to write down at least one, but you can write down more than one off you go.

Okay, I'll show you the ones that we thought of last lesson.

Obsessive.

She keeps thinking about the shells, she's determined to complete the necklace, she is obsessed with this idea of continuing the necklace all the way to the toaster.

Headstrong, which means she's determined and independent.

Remembering she was trying to persuade her mother to let her go down to the beach by herself.

Can you read the question that I've just put up please? Does she remind you of any other characters from books you have read? Thinking about all the books you've ever read, does she remind you of any other characters from these books? Pause the video and have a think.

Okay.

This is fascinating because there are so many answers, there's not a correct answer, there's not an incorrect answer.

One that I thought of, is she reminds me of Mulan from the book which is called Mulan, it's also been turned into a Disney film.

Both of the characters in this book and Mulan are female, they're both headstrong and they're both independent.

Another character she reminds me of is a character called Lyra, who is in the Philip Pullman books, the Northern lights, and she is also a younger, a similar age, she's obsessive, she's headstrong, and she's independent.

So if you haven't read either of those books, I really recommend them, if you like the character that's being portrayed by Cherry.

We're now going to read the text, and our focus just like in our previous lesson is comprehending and making meaning, we're going to be doing it by focusing on language, make a retrieval, retrieving information, and by making of sentences.

Okay, this is my turn to read to you.

You can enjoy, please follow with your fingers and with your eyes.

There was a thundering on the stairs and a sudden rude invasion of the kitchen.

Cherry was surrounded by her four brothers, who lent over the table in mock appreciation of her necklace.

Ooh, pretty do they come in other colours? I mean, pink's not my colour.

A bit big though, isn't it? Said one of them.

She didn't know which, and it didn't matter.

He went on, I mean, it's a bit big for a necklace, war had been declared again and Cherry responded predictably.

My question is, why the words thundering and invasion used to describe the boys.

Pause the video and have a think.

What do you think? Thundering makes me think of thunder.

It also maybe makes me think of lots of foot prints and people walking or horses on the ground.

So you might have a thundering from lots of people moving.

Mm hmm invasion, army invades, they might invade another country.

I think the words thundering and invasion are used to suggest that her brothers, the boys, are her enemy.

And again, says later on in the text, war had been declared.

I think the author is choosing these words really purposefully, to make us think that Cherry and her brothers are fighting they're each other's enemies.

Now she responded predictably, how do you think she's going to respond? I think she's going to have a big reaction.

How can you tell the brothers of being sarcastic about the necklace? We're still looking at the same passage, I would like you to pause the video and find some evidence, that shows us as the reader that the brothers are being sarcastic, so that they are teasing her they're not being serious what they're saying is sarcastic, off you go.

what did you find? I found loads of things.

The first one is mock,.

and in our previous lesson we said mock meant to tease.

So in mock appreciation, they're not really appreciating her necklace, they're pretending to.

That ooh, there are different ways that you may have read that, but to me, that's quite sarcastic.

The rhetorical question, a bit big though, isn't it? He went on, so he is continuing with that sarcasm and this teasing, it's a bit big for a necklace.

Those were the pieces of evidence that I found, you may have found some of those, you may find some additional ones that I didn't spot.

Okay, now it's your turn to read the text.

Can you pause the video and read out loud please? Off you go.

I made a prediction earlier, that she was going to have a big reaction.

Did she have a big reaction? Thumbs up or thumbs down, I think thumbs down.

I'm going to read it to you and we can check.

That depends, she said calmly shrugging her shoulders because she knew that would irritate them.

Ah, so she didn't have a big reaction, but she did react.

She's being calm and she's shrugging her shoulders and she's doing it purposefully to continue with this war this irritation that they have between them.

On what does it depend? Said her eldest brother pompously.

On who's going to wear it of course, ninny, she said swiftly, well, who is going to wear it? He replied, what do you think her answers going to be? Let's find out.

My turn to read to you, you can listen and follow and track with your eyes.

It's for a giant, she said her voice full of serious innocence.

It's a giant necklace and it's still not big enough.

It was the perfect answer, an answer.

she knew would send her brothers into fits of hysterical hilarity.

She loved to make them laugh at her, and could do it at the drop of the hat.

Of course she no more believed in giants than they did, but if it tickled them pink to believe she did, then why not pretend.

Much earlier on in this unit, I predicted that there was a giant for this necklace.

Now I think there isn't.

Although in the illustration, I do see a giant walking behind the house.

Hmm.

Do you think Cherry believes in giants? Thumbs up, thumbs down what do you think.

Pause the video look for some evidence, that you could use to convince someone, off you go.

The beginning she says, it's for a giant and her voice is full of serious innocence, so she is being very serious, being very innocent and childlike, which makes me believe her.

However, later on it says, of course she no more believed in giants than they did.

Does she believe even giants? My next question is, what does the phrase tickled them pink mean? And I'm giving you a hint, it's a show, not tell.

It's showing you as the reader, how someone is feeling rather than telling you.

Find the phrase, read the sentence and say out loud what you think it is.

But before you do that, pause the video.

Okay.

But if it tickled them pink to believe she did, then why not pretend.

Now further up in the paragraph, it said fits of hysterical hilarity.

Hysterical means that they're laughing loads and hilarity means that they're having fun and have fits of it, you can imagine them all.

So imagine if someone's laughing loads and loads and loads and they can't stop laughing, what colour do they turn? Pink.

And if someone is being tickled, it makes them laugh.

So the expression means if it made them laugh, then and why not pretend, but if it made them laugh to believe that she believed in giants, why not pretend that she did.

In lesson one, I predicted that the necklace belonged to a giant, was I correct? Pause the video have a think.

I don't think I was correct.

I made this prediction based off the title, but having just read the extract, I think that she is just pretending and she's doing it to make her brothers laugh, she wants to make it, this necklace, but she doesn't actually believe in giants and that isn't her intention to give it to a giant.

Now we're going to look at our character inferences.

What we think about Cherry and her personality.

In the previous lesson we described Cherry headstrong, independent and obsessive.

Do you still agree with those? Thumbs up or thumbs down? Yeah, I agree with those too.

We decided she wasn't mysterious, she wasn't selfless and she wasn't funny.

Do you think she is any of those things now? Thumbs up, thumbs down.

Hmm, I actually think she is funny, she's purposely making her brothers laugh I think we can now describe her as funny.

Okay, you often get asked about language links and synonyms for words in sets.

And when you're reading it's a really useful skill to be able to identify synonyms. I have put up eight words on the board and all of the words in the left hand, have a word pair, a synonym on the right hand side.

Do you think you can match them? Pause the video and have a go.

How did you get on? My top tip for this is, is starting with the ones that you definitely know.

The one that I felt really confident in was eerie.

Eerie means mysterious, and I just knew that cause I read lots of stories, which are mystery stories, and they might have an eerie setting, and I've read those words quite a lot.

Another one that I was pretty sure about was funny.

Humorous, you can hear the word humour, and I thought I definitely know those two are similar words.

Then we're left with four words, headstrong, isolated, remote, unyielding.

Now remote here, isn't a TV remote, it is when there's nothing surrounding it.

Remote house might be surrounded by fields, it is an isolated house, that is the synonym match.

Which leaves us with headstrong.

Previously, we've said headstrong is the synonym for determined, so the new word is unyielding.

It's when someone won't give up and they won't yield against pressure.

And we can describe Cherry as unyielding.

Fantastic you have had an excellent lesson today, I am super impressed, I think you really understand Cherry as a character and her brothers and their relationship, which is fantastic.

I'll see you for our next lesson soon, bye.