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Hi everybody, it's Ms. Gardner.

Welcome to our next lesson on our unit, "'The Man on the Moon': Narrative Writing." Really excited for today's learning.

Thank you so much for coming to join.

So let's get started.

This lesson is from our unit, "'The Man on the Moon'": Narrative Writing." Your learning outcome today is, I can summarise and sequence the story of "The Man on the Moon." So let's have a look at our keywords.

We'll do my turn, your turn.

Summary.

Sequencing.

Narrative.

Structure.

Let's have a look at what these mean.

So a summary tells the most important parts of a story in a short and simple way.

That means when you summarise a story, you do not go into the most intricate detail.

You're just kind of explaining the key moments in a short way.

Sequencing is arranging events in the order they happened in.

A narrative is a story.

"The Man on the Moon" is a narrative.

And structure is the way a text is organised.

So there are three sections of our learning today.

In the first section, we'll be summarising the key events.

In the second, we'll be sequencing the key events.

And then in the third and final section, we're gonna be structuring the story of "The Man on the Moon." So let's start with summarising the key events.

"The Man on the Moon" is a short animation.

It's only a few minutes long.

We need to select and summarise the key moments of the film.

The most important moments that happen in "The Man on the Moon." So you need to watch the film again and consider what are the five key moments that take place in the film.

So you wanna be thinking about what happens at the very beginning, then what happens, what the main moment is, the most exciting moment, and then what happens at the end.

So you're thinking about what are the five key moments.

So you're gonna watch the film again now and then we'll come back together and think about those key moments.

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Here is a summary of the five key moments.

The most important moments of "The Man on the Moon." One, Lily was bored.

She looked through her telescope.

Two, Lily saw a man on the moon.

Three, the man on the moon was lonely.

Four, Lily kept trying to send a gift to the man on the moon, but it was very difficult.

Five, Lily was eventually able to send the gift to the moon and the man was happy.

A summary gives the most basic information.

When it comes to us writing our narrative, we are of course gonna describe it in a lot more detail with really ambitious vocabulary and really try to convey the character's emotions, which the summary doesn't really do.

But, it's important, so we really understand the five most important moments and the order in which they happen.

So let's just check for understanding.

True or false? A summary explains the story in detail.

Is that true or false? Pause the video now.

That is false.

Can you use A or B to justify your answer? A, a summary of a story tells the key moments.

Or B, a summary of a story describes each moment in precise detail.

Pause the video now.

That is correct.

A summary just tells us the key moments, not with loads of precise detail.

Well done, everybody.

Okay, it's time for task A.

You're going to order these statements from the summary correctly.

So in the correct order in which they appear.

The first one, "Lily was eventually able to send a gift to the moon and the man was happy.

Lily saw a man on the moon.

Lily was bored.

She looked through her telescope.

The man on the moon was lonely.

Lily kept trying to send a gift to the man on the moon, but it was very difficult." So task A, you need to order these statements correctly.

So pause the video now and off you go.

Well done, everyone.

Let's go through these statements in the correct order.

So first, Lily was bored.

She looked through her telescope.

Number two, Lily saw a man on the moon.

Three, the man on the moon was lonely.

Four, Lily kept trying to send a gift to the man on the moon, but it was very difficult.

And finally, Lily was eventually able to send a gift to the moon and the man was happy.

If you need to go back and rearrange these, or rewrite these in the correct order, that's absolutely fine.

You can pause the video and do that.

Or, let's move on to our second section of our learning.

Well done, everyone.

So in this section, we're going to be sequencing the events.

Sequencing a story is important because it allows us to tell the story in the order in which it happened.

It makes us feel really confident when we're explaining the order of the story.

When we sequence, we need to do it in chronological order.

That means the time order, the order in which it happens.

And we can use stills from the film clip to help us.

That means little kind of screen grabs from the film.

So a picture, a still picture of the film, and we're gonna sequence those in the correct order.

Here are the first key moments.

Now the film is three and a half minutes, and think about that.

We can't have a picture from every single second of the film 'cause otherwise we'd have so many photographs.

So I've just taken the key moments, okay? So here are the stills or pictures from the key moments of the film.

But of course there were loads of other things as well that did happen.

I just thought that these were the most important moments.

So first picture is old Lily, bored at home.

She's slumped on the sofa, nobody's playing with her.

Her brother's just ignoring her.

So she eventually she goes to her telescope and starts looking up at the sky and into space.

It's when she's looking through the telescope that she sees on the moon, this shack with a man appearing from it.

She's desperate to see him again the next day.

So she races home from school to go back to her telescope and look through the telescope again.

She's determined to communicate with the man on the moon, to reach out to the man on the moon, because I think she thinks, we know at this point she thinks he's really lonely.

She wants him to know she's thinking of him.

So she thinks of all these different ways to try and send a letter to the moon.

She tries lots of different ways, and she feels really frustrated, because she just cannot get her letter to the moon.

And meanwhile we get image of the man looking really, really lonely and sad, and worried that no one's thinking about him on Christmas day.

So you can see there was actually lots of other things that happened.

I just, when I just talked through it, there was loads of other things I thought of.

Like for example, Lily trying to reach the man on the moon with her bow and arrow.

But we can't have every single picture.

So these are just the key moments.

Then let's look at the next key moments.

It's Christmas morning.

Lily is so excited to be opening her presents.

She's hugging her family.

It looks like a really happy, happy atmosphere.

She, you can see a picture there, of her hugging her mom on Christmas day.

In this third picture, we go up to the moon.

Again, it's just the man on the moon, and it's dark and looks very cold.

Complete opposite of Lily's house.

But this time you can see the big bunch of colourful balloons arriving and floating towards him.

He receives his gifts and you can see his face there.

He's in shock 'cause he realises what he's received.

And then he goes and looks through the gift.

The gift is a telescope.

He looks through the gift towards Earth, and that's where he sees Lily, and he realises that someone has been thinking about him, and that brings a tear to his eye.

He feels really overwhelmed and emotional about the fact that somebody has been thinking about him on Christmas day.

And that is the end of the story.

Again, these are just the key moments.

There were lots of other moments from the film as well that you will be able to describe when it comes to writing it.

But these are the moments we're gonna be sequencing.

So let's check for understanding.

True or false? We sequence the events in chronological order.

Is that true or false? Pause the video now.

That is true.

Can you use A or B to justify your answer? A, we sequence the events in chronological order to help us retell the story confidently.

Or B, it doesn't matter what order we sequence the events.

Pause the video now.

That is correct.

It is A.

We sequence the events in chronological order, so that we can retell the story really confidently.

Well done, everyone.

It's time for task B.

You are now going to sequence the event images in the order that they appear in "The Man on the Moon." Now these are even more streamlined than what we've just looked at.

We've only got six photos to order.

And I think these are the six most important moments from the film.

You can see, these are not in the correct order right now.

So you need to place them correctly.

So pause the video now and have a go at sequencing these key moments.

Well done, everyone.

I hope you enjoyed that.

Let's go through these pictures in order in which they appeared.

So first we had Lily looking through the telescope for the very first time.

Then we have the moment that she saw the man on the moon.

Then we watched her desperately try to find a way to communicate with the man on the moon by sending him a letter.

Meanwhile, we see the man still feeling really lonely up in the moon, thinking that no one's thinking of him.

And then that moment when the balloons arrive, and they start floating towards him, that really exciting moment.

And then finally when they see each other at the very end, and they're waving at each other through their telescopes.

So those were the six most important moments.

But of course there are so much more that happens that we're gonna be describing when it comes to writing.

So now it's time for our final section, where we're going to be structuring the story.

So, a narrative.

We know that's a story, can be structured into four sections.

An opening, a build-up, a climax, and then a resolution.

So it starts with our opening.

It then goes into the build-up, and then we have our climax, and then back down to the resolution.

That is how a story can be structured.

Let's check for understanding.

Fill in the blanks with the tags for each section of a narrative.

So you have build-up, resolution, opening and climax.

And think back to just the previous slide of where they should all go on our narrative structure.

Pause the video now.

Okay, let's go through it.

We start with our opening.

Well done.

Then we have our, everybody say it, our build-up.

Well done.

Thirdly, there is the, we get to the climax.

Well done.

And then finally, everybody say, our final section is the resolution.

Well done, everybody.

So each section of a narrative serves a different purpose.

The opening sets the scene.

It introduces where the film or the book or the scene is taking place.

It also tells the reader when.

So for example, in "The Man on the Moon," we know it's taking place around Christmas.

And where? Lily's house and the moon.

And then who.

So who are the main characters? So Lily and the man.

In the build-up, the purpose of the build-up is to build up the plot.

It develops the characters.

We get to know the characters a little bit more and understand their feelings and their emotions.

It builds up tension and excitement.

And often in the build-up, a problem is introduced.

The problem being in our build-up, Lily cannot find a way to reach the man on the moon.

The climax.

What is the purpose of the climax? It is the main action.

It's where the the most exciting moment takes place.

It's the highest point of tension.

It's the most exciting moment.

And often it's the moment where the problem is solved, or try to be solved.

Our problem of Lily reaching the man on the moon, not being able to reach the man on the moon, is solved in the climax when the balloons arrive.

And then finally, the resolution is closure.

It resolves the story and it allows viewers to reflect about everything they've seen, or readers to reflect about everything they've read.

So let's just match the section of a narrative to its purpose and check our understanding on this.

So you've got four sections, the opening, the build-up, the climax, and the resolution.

Four purposes.

Gives closure, sets the scene, builds up the plot, main action takes place.

Pause the video now, and match the section to its purpose.

Okay, well done.

Let's go through the answers.

The opening sets the scene.

The build-up builds up the plot and the tension, the excitement.

The climax is where the main action takes place, the most exciting moment.

And the resolution gives closure.

Well done everyone.

Okay, so let's have a look at these moments now, in a bit more detail.

The opening, these are the images, the stills from the film that are part of the opening.

So in the opening, we are introduced to all of these.

The settings.

So Lily's home and the moon.

And also the main characters, Lily and the man on the moon.

Then in the build-up, the plot and the characters are developed.

So we see that Lily is a determined, young girl.

She's determined to send a gift to the moon.

We also look at how lonely the man is, and how vulnerable and upset he looks up on the moon when he sat on his empty bench.

And it seems that he's giving up hope of anyone finding him.

So you can see the plot, and the characters are being developed here.

And then it's the climax, the most exciting moment, and it's where the main action takes place.

So it's Christmas day, Lily's really excited, and she also does wonder though about her gift to the man on the moon.

For the man on the moon.

Has it arrived? Then we see this beautiful, colourful, huge bunch of balloons arriving on the moon, floating towards the man.

And we see the man feeling really, really excited and amazed.

He cannot believe his eyes as he discovers that the gift is a telescope.

So that's a really exciting moment.

It's also where that problem is solved.

Remember the problem of being, "How do I reach the man on the moon?" Lily managed to solve it by sending the balloons and that had took place in the climax.

And then finally, we have our resolution.

And in the resolution a story comes to a close.

It ends.

The man looks at Earth through his new telescope, he locks eyes with Lily.

So through their telescopes, they lock eyes, and she's waving really excitedly.

She's got a massive smile on her face.

It's a really happy moment.

And then the tear.

We zoom in to the man's eyes, and we see a tear rolling down his face, as he realises that someone is thinking of him.

And that is that moment when viewers have a chance to reflect and think about the message from "The Man on the Moon." So it's time for task C.

Structuring the story.

I've just given you four pictures now.

One moment from the opening.

One moment from the build-up.

One minute from the climax, and one minute from the resolution.

You need to place each picture into their correct section.

So pause the video now and have a go at doing that.

Off you go.

Welcome back, everybody.

Let's go through these answers.

So in the opening, the picture was, that moment we first see the man on the moon.

In the build-up, one of the key moments from the build-up is watching Lily desperate to send the man, a letter to the man on the moon.

So it's that picture of the letter.

In the climax, that amazing moment where the colourful balloons, that colour amongst the black sky is really amazing sight.

And we watched, that's the most exciting moment.

The balloons arriving.

And then the resolution, when they're waving at each other through the telescope.

If you need to pause the video now, and rearrange any of your pictures, that's completely fine, but if not, really well done for completing task C.

It's the end of the lesson.

Here is the summary of everything we've learned.

A summary tells the most important parts of the story in a short and simple way.

Sequencing places the events of a narrative in chronological order.

A narrative can be structured into four sections.

Opening, build-up, climax, and resolution.

And each section of the narrative structure serves a different purpose.

Really well done for a fantastic lesson, everybody.

Great job.