Lesson video

Hello.

It's Mrs. Smart again.

Welcome back to this English unit.

Today's learning objective is to plan a narrative resolution.

You know what that means.

Yes, you're right.

We're nearly at the end of this English unit.

We're going to be watching the last clip of Whale Riders today.

We're then going to generate all of our ideas ready for writing our narrative resolution in our next lesson.

If you're ready, let's get started.

In this lesson you will need an exercise book or some lined paper, a pen or pencil to write with, and a ruler or a straight edge to create your table.

If you don't have a ruler, don't worry.

You can just fold your piece of paper.

If you haven't got any of these things with you right now, just pause the recording and go and get them.

In today's lesson we're going to start by recapping the story of Whale Rider.

We're then going to consider the narrative resolution features that we need to include in our own narrative resolutions.

Together we'll plan our narrative resolution and generate ideas.

And finally, we'll finish with your independent task.

We have learned a lot about the story of Whale Rider so far in this unit, and you have already created two pieces of writing linked to the build up and the climax.

I want you to remember three details of the story of Whale Rider now.

Pause the recording and try and remember.

Well done.

I'm sure you can remember much more than three details.

Let's just remind ourselves the whole story in preparation for planning our resolution today.

So in the opening, that's the part where Paikea was first born.

Build up, we've written part of that already.

That's where Koro decided that he wanted to find the next chief and he started a club to teach the first-born boys to be leaders.

We've also written a climax.

That's part where the whales beach themselves, and all the villagers try to save them.

And finally, my personal favourite is the resolution.

I think this is my favourite section of the film because it's just so powerful and incredible.

Wait till you see it.

In the resolution, Paikea climbed onto the largest whale's back.

She encouraged it back into the water.

All the other whales followed and swam away to safety.

Before we start planning and writing our narrative resolution, it's really important we consider its purpose.

What is the purpose of a narrative resolution? Why is it really important to include a resolution at the end of a story? Pause the video now and write down your answer to that question.

In a resolution it's often where the main problem of a story is solved or resolved.

Questions can be answered.

So there've been questions throughout the story.

The resolution is often where they're answered.

Tension is released, so we know the climax is the really, really tense, exciting, dramatic section of a story.

And then the resolution is often where the reader feels a bit more relaxed and the tension is released.

Any loose ends are tied up, and the story comes to an end.

The story concludes.

Did you have anything else? What were your ideas? Great job.

Before we watch the clip of Whale Rider, I just want to go over this Maori term.

This is something called a hongi.

Can you say that for me? Hongi.

Hongi.

A hongi is a traditional Maori greeting.

It's performed by two people pressing their noses and their foreheads together, and it's often used instead of a handshake, or it might be before a handshake.

And it's just a natural part of everyday life in Maori culture.

The reason that I'm talking about this is because Paikea performs a hongi on the whale in the clip we're about to see.

You can also see below two humans performing a hongi.

You might recognise one of them.

Can you tell who it is? That's right, it's David Beckham, David Beckham performing a hongi with a Maori man.

We're now going to watch the clip of Whale Rider that our resolution is going to be based on.

You are going to put these stills in order and retell the events once you've watched it, so make sure you're completely focused and you've got no distractions.

You can hear and see the film really clearly.

Okay, if you're ready, let's watch.

Come on.

Oh, wow.

I hope you enjoyed that clip as much as I did.

Can you imagine being able to ride a whale? That would just be truly incredible.

Now you might not realise that this is the part in the story where Koro finally realises that Paikea is the rightful chief.

She clearly has the power to move the whales, and that is why he then gives her the title of chief at the end of the film.

Right, I now want you to put those stills in order and retell the events.

Try to say one sentence per picture so that you are retelling the story in detail.

Pause the recording and off you go.

Let's see how you got on.

Have you got your pictures in the right order? Picture number one Paikea is performing a.

A hongi.

Well done.

Picture number two, Paikea climbs onto the whale's back.

Picture number three, Paikea sits in position.

Picture number four, Paikea encourages the whale.

She strokes the whale and encourages it back into the water.

Picture number five, Paikea gives the whale a little jab with her heels to try and get it moving.

And picture number six, the whale starts moving off into the water and Paikea and the whale disappear into the waves together.

How did you get on? Did you tell it in the right order? Well done if you did.

Right, we are nearly ready to start planning our narrative resolution.

The first thing you need to do is get your page set up.

All you need to do is split your page into two columns.

Really, really easy.

You could just fold your page if that's easier than using your ruler.

One column is going to be your section.

So we're going to break this film clip into three different sections.

And then your right-hand column is where you're going to write your notes of what happened.

If you can make the right-hand column a little bit bigger, then you've got more space to write.

Pause the recording and get your page ready.

Let's get planning.

So the first section we're going to have a look at is this part.

Paikea rubbed her hands on the whale's skin and performed a.

Well done.

A hongi.

I want you to write down every little detail of what happened in this section of the film clip.

Really focus on Paikea's actions, her body language, her facial expressions, everything that she does in this section.

Pause the recording and write down your notes now.

I'm going to share my ideas, and if you want to copy any of them down, then you can do so.

Gently ran her hand along the whale's barnacle-covered skin.

So that means she runs her hand, she strokes her hand along the whale, and she feels its skin.

You might notice the whale has these strange rocks or stones attached to the skin.

And they're actually called barnacles.

So she runs her hand along and feels the bumpiness of the barnacles on their skin.

She traced the shapes.

That means she felt the shapes of its skin.

She pressed her nose firmly.

Placed her palms. So your palms are this part of your hand.

She places her palms on the front of the whale, as part of her greeting.

She closed her eyes.

Prayed, hoped, wished.

Those are three quite similar verbs so I've put them together.

Now I don't actually know this because she doesn't say her prayers or her wishes out loud, but I'm inferring that when she closes her eyes, she's really wishing that the whale would be able to move off the beach and back into the water to safety.

She breathed deeply, and she started up at the majestic beast.

I think this is the point where she decides that she's going to climb on top of the whale.

What do you think? Yeah, I agree.

Okay, if you want to write down any of those ideas, then you can do so now.

Let's have a look at the next section.

The next part is where Paikea climbed up and sat on the whale's back.

Again, I want you to really focus in on Paikea.

Think about everything that she's doing.

Look at her facial expressions.

Look at her body movements.

And write down every details in the notes.

You don't need to write full sentences.

Just keywords or phrases is absolutely fine.

Okay, pause the recording and write down your ideas now.

You are doing so well.

You've thought of so many ideas for your narrative resolution already.

I'm going to go through my ideas now, and if you want to write any of them down, then you can.

She pushed herself up with all her strength.

You can tell that it's quite difficult to climb up onto the whale's and she needs to be very strong and use all her strength to get up there.

She placed her foot, and the camera actually zooms in on her foot.

She places it on a barnacle to step up onto the back.

Ascended, that's another word for moved up or travelled up or got on to something.

She clambered, climbed, or scrambled.

Those are all quite similar verbs to describe her movement as she got onto the whale.

Crawled along.

So you'll notice, when she got onto the whale's back, she then crawled on all fours to get in to the right position.

Mounted.

That verb means to get on to something and sit on it.

Often we talk about mounting a bike or mounting a horse.

But Paikea, she's mounted a whale.

She sat in position.

She's ready now.

Okay, if you want to write down any of those ideas, please do so now.

Time for the final section of our clip.

This is the part where Paikea encouraged the whale, and they moved off into the water together.

I want you to write down every little detail that happens in this clip.

Pause the recording and write your ideas now.

Wow.

I cannot believe how many ideas you've got.

That's absolutely fantastic.

Well done.

I'm going to share my ideas now, and if you want to add any of them to your notes, then you can do so.

Encouragingly stroked.

So as you can see in the picture there, that she's stroking the whale's head, and she's encouraging it or coaxing it, trying to persuade it to move into the water.

She jabbed or kicked it with her heels.

We talked about that already.

She whispered.

What did she whisper? Can you remember? Yes, well done.

She whispered, "Come on." She coaxed.

Again, that means the same as encouraged or persuaded.

She gripped on.

She knew she was about to start moving into the water, so she held on really tight.

Now this part is where I start to describe what the whale did.

So the whale's head turned.

You saw it.

Its huge head start to move to the side.

Its tailed brushed against the sea bed.

And then they moved off into the foamy waves and slipped into the sea, into the distance.

Okay, if you want to write down any of those ideas, then you can do so.

For your independent task today, I would like you to finish your plan of the narrative resolution.

You might find it helpful to go back and watch the clip again.

You might also find it helpful to go back and have a look at my ideas to include in your plan.

Remember, the more ideas you have on your plan, the easy it will be when you come to write your narrative resolution in our next lesson.

Try and be really, really ambitious with your language choices.

I know you can do it.

Once you've completed your plan and you're happy with it, I then want you to write a sentence for each section, using your ideas.

Remember, we broke the resolution into three sections so that means three sentences.

Let's have a look at my example.

As Paikea pressed her nose firmly against the largest barnacle, she closed her eyes and prayed.

You can see I've used three ideas from my plan, pressed her nose firmly, closed her eyes and prayed.

And I've put all three ideas into one complex sentence.

Try and be really ambitious with your sentence structures and use complex and compound sentences so you can include lots of detail.

Congratulations.

Well done for all of your hard work in today's lesson.

If you would like to, please share your work with your parents or carer.

I look forward to seeing you in our next lesson, when we are going to write our narrative resolution.

I can't wait.

Goodbye.