Lesson video

Hello it's Mrs. Smarts.

Welcome back to this English unit all about the text Mirror by Jeannie Baker.

In today's lesson we're going to be using some of the images in the text to make comparisons and identify links between the two stories.

In this lesson you will need an exercise book or some lined paper, a pen or pencil, and a ruler or some form of straight edge.

If you haven't got any of those items with you right now just pause the recording and get yourself ready.

In this lesson we're going to start with an introduction recapping what we have covered so far about the text Mirror.

We're then going to focus on the Moroccan half of the text first and then we'll move on to look at the Australian half of the text and we'll make comparisons between the two stories.

At the end of this lesson I will set you an independent task to complete.

Here's the text that we have been exploring as part of this unit it is called Mirror, written and illustrated by Jeannie Baker, with thanks to Walker books for granting us permission to use this book.

And you can see here the front and the back cover and these show us the two stories, so we can see one story based in Sydney, Australia on the front cover and then the other story is set in Valley of Roses, Morocco in North Africa, Let's remind ourselves where those two countries are.

Can you remember where Morocco is? Point to the country now? Excellent, well done.

This is where Morocco is where the pink star has just appeared it's in North Africa.

Can you remember where Australia is? Maybe you can even point to roughly where Sydney, Australia is, have a go now.

Well done.

This is roughly where Sydney is in Australia.

Here's the short introduction at the beginning of the book, which gives a little bit of an explanation as to how the story works.

There are two boys and two families in this book.

One family lives in a city in Australia and one lives in Morocco, North Africa.

The lives of the two boys and their families look very different from each other and they are different, but some things connects them, just as some things are the same for all families no matter where they live.

We're going to be exploring today some of the similarities and differences between the two families.

You can see on the left-hand side of the screen that same introduction is written in Arabic that's at the beginning of the Moroccan half of the story, cause Arabic is one of the main languages that people in Morocco speak and write.

Here is a recap of the images that we looked at in our previous lesson, we looked particularly at the landscape of the two countries.

First of all we focused on the landscape of Sydney Australia, which we identified as being very, very busy with traffic and having lots of buildings particularly skyscrapers and also that large bridge that went over the water and they also drove through or round an airport, you can see there a huge Qantas aeroplane.

Here is the other half of the text.

We looked at the journey that the father and his son took on a donkey this time rather than on a car, through the Valley of Roses in Morocco and you can see it looks very, very different.

Hardly any buildings, no cars to be seen, but lots of mountains and desert landscape, we did see some water and we noticed some people by the water possibly doing some washing or collecting the water.

We also noticed there were some fields that we thought maybe people were growing crops in, but generally the landscape was very barren, very empty and looks very dry.

Here's the image that we're going to be focusing on today in today's lesson.

We had a brief look at this in our previous lesson.

This is where the father and his son arrive.

They arrive in a market and you can see lots of people selling different products.

I want you to pause the recording and have a really careful look and see all the things you can notice.

What can you see the people doing? What things or products can you see people selling or buying and what are the characters doing? What is the father doing? That's the man in the sort of pale blue Eli look outfit.

And also what is the little boy doing? That's the smaller child wearing a red hooded top.

Pause the recording and write down your ideas now.

Well done, I hope you had a really careful look at this image.

So I can see that the father looks like he is trying to sell this sheep or lamb to someone, he's holding it in his arms and he's talking to someone and the person he's talking to is looking down at it, which makes me think maybe he's trying to sell it.

I know he carried it all the way from his home to the markets.

He's still got that large carpet with him so maybe he's going to sell that later on.

And then if we have a look at the young boy he looks like he's playing in the ground not very interested in shopping at the moment and there is some chickens around him as well, which I'm sure are entertaining him.

And then if we have a look around the market we can see the different products that people are buying and selling.

We can see lots of different herb's and spices in bags, lots of different orangy brown colours.

And then next to him I can see someone looks like they're selling some electronics, they're selling televisions and a computer, and some mobile phones.

And then behind that I can see some people selling what looks like vegetables.

And there's lots of people walking around having a look at the different products and buying and selling.

Here's is the next image in the text.

Now what can you see here? What other characters doing? I want you to look really carefully particularly at the father, what do you think he might be doing here? And what do you think he might be doing here? Pause the recording and write down your ideas now.

Well done I'm sure you thought really carefully about that.

I think it looks like the father is selling the rug or the carpet that he carried all the way from home and he's selling it to someone who looks like they sell rugs because there are lots and lots of rugs there.

And if we look at the next image it looks like the father has bought something, a large cube object, I wonder what it might be? Did we see anything in the market that was around that size and shape? Maybe it's a television or maybe it's a computer and you can see the young boy is loading some different things onto the donkey, I can see another box, I can see a bottle which looks like some drink, maybe some orange juice.

Then it looks like the boy is loading on some fruit maybe some oranges to carry home.

Can you describe the market and what it sells? What are the characters doing in the market? Write a few sentences to describe what you just found out in the pictures.

You can use these sentence starters to help you.

The market sells, the characters buy, the characters sell, When I mentioned characters, I mean the father and his son.

Pause the recording and write yourself a few sentences now.

Here we can see the next image in the Australian half of the text, and we can see a very different shopping experience for this father and his son in Australia.

Remember they've gone to a hardware shop that's a bit like a DIY shop, somewhere that sells things to help build things or make things in your house.

What can you see in this shop? What do you think the characters are doing? Have a look carefully at the father and his son in both images.

What are they buying? Pause the recording and write down your ideas now.

Okay, now I can see the father and the son looking at what looks like some sort of pipe maybe that's for parts of the fire or the fireplace at they're building, and they've also got some pieces of wood as well, maybe that's to help build the fireplace.

Then on the way home they stop at another shop, it's called magic carpets.

Now does that carpet look familiar? What can you see? What are the characters doing? Pause the recording and write down your ideas now.

Excellent so I can see a shop selling carpets now this reminds me of the market stall in Morocco, that was buying and selling carpets or rugs and the carpet that the father and the son are looking at looks very, very similar to the carpets that the father in Morocco sold to the market stall holder, maybe it's the same carpet.

That could be something that links these two stories together.

Can you describe the shop and what it sells? Now we looked at two shops in the Australian text, we saw the hardware shop or the DIY shop, and we also saw the carpet shop.

What are the characters doing? Use these sentence starters to help you.

The shop sells, the characters buy, and then I want you to think about what links the two stories together.

Remember we saw the father selling his rug or carpet to the market stall holder and then in the Australia text we saw the father buying a rug that looked very, very similar.

Pause the recording and write some sentences to answer these questions now.

For your task I would like you to try and answer this question, how are the Moroccan markets and Australian hardware shop similar and different from each other? What makes them the same and what makes them different? Split your page into two columns, this is where you're going to need your ruler or your straight edge.

Mix the similarities on one side, that means that things that are the same and the differences on the other side.

Congratulations, you have completed your lesson.

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

I will see you in our next English lesson.

Goodbye.