Lesson video

Good morning, everyone.

My name is Miss Weerasekera, and welcome to unit 12.

In this unit, we're going to be using the story from the previous unit about Ganesh and Kartikeya.

And we're going to be using that to create a discussion-based piece of writing.

We're going to be creating a balanced argument based on the question of whether Ganesh cheated or not.

We're going to look in the next few lessons about what makes a balanced arguments and how we can create that.

In today's lesson, I'm going to tell you my discussion text, and you're going to be thinking about what points have I made for both sides of the argument.

We then going to create a discussion map to help us think about our own ideas and to think about the structure of our discussion as well.

We've got lots to do, so let's get started.

In today's lesson, you're going to need a piece of paper and a pen or pencil to write your discussion map on.

You're going to need your brain to do some amazing listening to my discussion text, but then in the creation of our own discussion map that we're going to be using for everything in this unit.

If you do not have a pen or pencil or a piece of paper, pause here, and then press play, when you have everything you need.

In today's lesson, we're going to start off with a spelling activity.

We're then going to listen to my discussion text based on whether Ganesh cheated in the story from the previous unit.

We're going to create our discussion map and I will demonstrate mine first before you create your own.

And then there's a challenge task at the end to really test your brain.

We are going to be looking at common exception words at the beginning of this unit.

And these common exception words are words that do not always follow our spelling rules.

And that means that they can be tricky to know how to spell.

The only real way to learn these words is just to keep practising them, reading them and writing them.

And eventually they'll get into our brains and we won't be able to forget them, even if we wanted to.

Let's have a look at some of the words we're going to use today.

Today, we are going to look at these words: old, cold, told, and hold.

What do you notice about all of these words? What do they have in common? And what's different about them? Which part of the word makes an unexpected sound to the one that you would expect? If you need a bit of time, you can pause here, have a look at them and practise saying them out loud and then press play, when you think you've spotted it.

Good, so the O sound doesn't quite make the sound we expect.

The activity we're going to do today is I have put lots of letters that include those words in here.

And I would like to see if you can stop them.

How many O-L-D words can you find? There are two extra O-L-D words that were not on this list.

So I wonder if you can find all six of those words.

Pause here, get your pen and pencil ready and write down and make as many O-L-D words as you can and then press play when you are done.

Fantastic.

Okay, let's have a look.

I made old, cold, told, hold, bold, and fold, as well.

There are so many different words that we spell that have that strange sound in them.

And actually these are words that we use quite a lot, and that's why they're called common words, because they come up a lot and we really need to know how to spell them.

You're going to listen to my discussion now.

Listen out for the key points I make for and against the argument.

So the for ones will be that we think Ganesh is cheating, and the against would be that he is not cheating.

Have a look at my facial expressions and my gestures and how I tell this convincing me as a discussion too.

I'm going to read you my discussion text now.

Was Ganash cheating? Hello, everyone.

We have an important visitor today: Judge James.

He is going to discuss the question of whether Ganesh was cheating and what should be done with it.

Here he is now.

Hello, everyone.

My name is Judge James.

And I'm here to decide the answer to an important question today: was Ganesh cheating when he said that he travelled around the world.

There are three valid arguments, which suggest that he did cheat.

First, to say you travelled around the world, suggests physically moving from place to place.

Ganesh did not do that.

And therefore he cheated.

Second, he deliberately misled his brother by telling him about the journey, describing the things that he saw and he smelled, suggesting that he had, in fact, being that in person, when clearly he had not.

Third, he didn't own up to his cheating until after the wedding, when it was too late.

They suggest to me that he knew he was cheating, and just wanted to gloat over his brother once he was married.

But on the other hand, there are also three valid arguments that suggest that he did not cheat.

First, when Kartikeya challenged him to the race, Ganesh did ask if he could travel in any way he liked, and Kartikeya said yes.

In that case, Ganesh was free to choose his method of travel, even if it was just to using his mind.

Second, it is clearly possible to travel around the world, using your imagination and in your mind.

And Ganesh proved it.

He saw the sites and heard the sounds and smelled the smells that Kartikeya did on that journey, just as if he had been there.

What's the difference? Last, but certainly not least: He did tell the truth at all times.

The fact that Kartikeya misunderstood him, is not Ganesh's problem.

Therefore, in conclusion, I think that there is truth in both sides of this argument.

I think Ganesh did deliberately mislead Kartikeya.

But he did so without lying.

It is always important that relatives and friends can see things from each other's perspectives.

So therefore, my judgement and my decision today is that the brothers should meet together for mediation.

They should try and discuss together what happened and to come to a compromise and a solution.

Also, given that this decision does impact Buddhi, I think she should be involved in this mediation too, to represent herself and her wishes.

Now, that is my decision, and it's up to them to try and find the solution.

It's time for us to create our discussion map.

Now, this map is going to look a little bit different than the others before, because this is a non-fiction piece of writing, and you'll notice that it says a discussion map instead of story map, we're going to have different sections that we draw pictures in for this, rather than just doing one picture fly by an arrow.

But don't worry, I'm going to explain all of that to you.

And we're going to go through it step by step together.

We all going to get started with our discussion map now.

Now I said earlier that this discussion map is going to be a little bit different than a story map.

There will be some similarities, we will be drawing pictures, show you the different events that happened in the discussion, and arrows to show the order in which they happened.

But they're going to happen in sections rather than just one after the other.

So we're going to have a four main sections today, and I'm going to be drawing bubbles like this.

You can draw circles, you can draw squares, it's up to you.

And at the top of this first bubble, I'm going to white introduction.

Now, in the instructions that you just saw, we have the judge is introduced.

have a little hand, he's waving.

We have the question, don't we? Was he cheating? And we're going to look at both sides.

Let's put thumbs up.

Both sides of the argument.

Okay? So those are the things in my introduction: we meet the judge, the question, we introduce the question and we're told that we're going to see both sides of this argument.

Now, next we have.

Drawing that bubble.

these are going to be for.

Okay, the three points that are for this discussion.

And for thinking that he was a cheater.

So the first one, like this, was the idea that they were supposed to travel.

That was the word wasn't it.

And that travel means actually moving somewhere.

He said, Nope, it must be cross.

them together, right? He did not actually go anywhere.

So that means that he is a cheater.

Number two, we have that he kind of misled, didn't he, his brother.

He described all the things that he saw, the mountains, the trees, therefore he misled his brother on purpose.

Okay, and finally he waited, until after the wedding, After to his wedding to Buddhi to tell his brother, didn't he? And then he told him all about the trees and all of that.

So he waited, which suggests that maybe he did know that what he was doing was wrong.

We're now going to move on to the against points.

Okay, now he did ask, "Can I travel how I like?" He did ask that question.

And that he chose then to use his brain, travel in his mind.

Why? Reading those books.

Okay, now when you read those books, he did actually kind of go, indeed, he saw the sites, he had smelled the smells.

So really that he was there.

And then finally, this whole time he has said the truth, okay? Now our final section is going to be the conclusion.

So this is when judge James or whoever your judge is going to be called we're going to write conclusion at the top.

And he's going to, he kind of says, doesn't he, taht he thinks it's pretty balanced.

Yeah, and his decision was that the brothers should meet and have a discussion.

That was his decision to meet up and to have a discussion, and that they should be able to see things from each other's perspective.

Okay, and then finally he mentioned that actually Buddhi is involved in this as well, and the decision that they make and the agreement they make includes her, and therefore she should be involved in the discussion and the decisions as well, okay? So we have introduction, we meet judge James.

He introduces us to the question and tells us that we're going to be discussing whether it's a balanced argument or not.

Then, we have the three points for why we think Ganesh did cheat.

The word travel suggests you're supposed to move somewhere, and he didn't.

He misled his brother by really describing all the different places as if he had actually been there.

And he waited until after he was married to Buddhi to actually say anything about it, which suggests that he knew what he did wasn't quite right.

Then, the ones for the fact that we think he didn't cheat, so, against question.

He did ask, "Can I travel how I want to?" And therefore, he did use books and he should be able to travel using his imagination.

And he proved that he could use that imagination.

He was able to provide the same sights, smells and sounds as Kartikeya was, so really he did travel to those places, even if it was in his mind.

And lastly, that he was always telling the truth, he never actually told any lies.

He might've just not told all of the truth in one go.

Finally, our conclusion where we have the judge saying that he thinks has good points on both sides, it's kind of a balanced argument.

He says, he wants the two brothers to meet up and have a discussion and come to a solution, that they should try and see things from each other's perspectives, yeah? So Kartikeya should see that Ganesh didn't lie and it was fair enough what he did, but perhaps Ganesh should understand why Kartikeya is feeling upset and a bit cheated, be sympathetic to that.

And finally, that Buddhi is involved in this situation as well, but she is now married to Ganesh, so she should be involved in the discussion, too.

Now it's your turn to create your own discussion map based on what I did.

Feel free to magpie ideas from what I have done.

If you have different ideas for the for and against points or for the pictures themselves, then please change them and use your creativity.

Pause here, and then press play when you have finished your discussion map.

Fantastic! That's looking really good and really clear.

That's going to help us in our next lesson when we have to speak and step the story.

Our challenge task today says this: Which brother do you agree with? And why? So I agree with Kartikeya that Ganesh is cheating, because, or, I agree with Ganesh that he isn't cheating, because.

I'd also like you to use this sentence stems: if I was Ganesh or if I was Kartikeya, then I would.

Put yourself in their shoes.

What would you do in that situation? Would you have done the same as Ganesh? Would you have done the same as Kartikeya? Or would you have behaved or acted differently? Pause here and have a go at this.

You can write it down or you can just say your answers out loud using the sentence stems. Press play when you're done.

You have done a brilliant job at listening to our new discussion texts and creating an amazing discussion of map.

Well done! In our next lesson, we'll be using that map to first step and then speak our discussion to make sure that we can remember it really well before we had to move on to writing our own later in the unit.

If you would like to share your discussion map with me, then you can ask a parent or carer to put it on Facebook, Instagram, or Twitter.

You can tag OakNational and to use the #LearnwithOak.

I hope to see you in our next lesson.