Lesson video

Hi everyone, and welcome to our lesson today.

We have made the most amazing start to our new unit on the Windrush.

Today we're going to be thinking really deeply about the emotions and the thoughts that different people would have had when they learned that they were going to be migrating to Britain on the Windrush from Jamaica.

We're going to be generating lots of vocabulary and show not tell.

In today's lesson, we are going to be generating vocabulary to use in the opening of our diary entry.

This is lesson number four of 10.

In this lesson, you will need your exercise book or lined paper, your pen or pencil, and your very best learning brain.

Make sure to pause the video if you need a moment to go and get anything.

So today's agenda for learning.

Firstly, we're going to learn a little bit more about contracted words.

Then we're going to recap the features of a diary entry.

We're going to read a model from a different perspective this time and we are going to finish by developing, by generating some emotions and show not tell vocabulary.

So for our writing warm up, we are going to be learning about contracted words.

I would like you to pause the video while you fill in the blanks.

So the contracted word is can't my turn can't your turn.

Well done, now you need to work out what the uncontracted version is.

So what two words, was can't be before it was contracted and you can do so for the rest of the words.

So he had, I would like you to contract those two words.

I've, I would like you to find the uncontracted version.

And finally, will not, I would like you to contract to form a new word.

Pause the video while you do that and I will see you when you are ready.

Okay everybody, hopefully we've all paused the video we've all had a go at filling in the blanks.

Now we're going to review some answers.

So let's check.

Can't becomes cannot.

So my turn can not, can't, your turn.

Excellent.

Next word, he had, now let's contract that word It makes he'd, well, my turn.

He had, he'd, your turn.

Excellent.

Next word, a contracted word, I've.

Now would need the uncontracted version.

I have well done, my turn.

I have eyes, your turn.

Excellent.

And finally, will not, we need to contract these words to form the word won't, well done if you got that one, my turn.

Will not, won't, your turn.

Fantastic.

Okay, so now we're going to recap the features of a diary entry.

We learned about the features of a diary entry in our last lesson.

But because there are quite a few different features we're going to keep on revisiting this, throughout this writing outcome.

So grab your pen and paper.

Can you name mind map the features of a diary entry? Can you get them all? Pause the video while you do that.

Okay everyone, hopefully we've all pause the video.

We've got to mind map filled with the features of a diary entry.

Now let's go through them together.

So chronological order, we use adverbials of time to order things in which to put things in time order.

We also mainly write in the past tense, we tell the reader about our feelings.

We also include maybe some show not tell by describing our actions and those give away how we feel.

We write in the first person using pronouns such as, I, me, we or us.

And we also have a very informal tone.

We write to a diary almost like we are writing to a really, really close friend.

So we would have an informal tone by using sentences which end with exclamation marks or using contracted words.

Just like what we did for our warm up.

Now we're going to read a model.

Dear diary, I'm going to begin by reading the model aloud and you can pause the video if you would like to go back and read it yourself.

Dear diary, I'm still in shock.

Today has been one of the worst days in my life.

My father has told me the devastating news that we must move to England.

Questions are racing through my mind at a million miles an hour, why now? Why us? Why me? I feel sick just thinking about it.

As I sit here, scribbling down my thoughts, my hands shake in anger.

At breakfast, mum was acting weird.

Usually she whistles while she cooks us our ackee and saltfish and ask us questions about our day.

But today we eat and prepared for school in an ominous silence.

At school, an impending sense of doom descended over me through the day.

I knew something was wrong.

So let's just go through some of this vocabulary Ackee and saltfish, you might remember that we've already met this term.

It's a dish, which is very, very popular in Jamaica.

But today we eat and prepare for school in an ominous silence.

We've met, this is a Mrs. Wordsmith word.

It's a feeling where something bad is about to happen.

When I returned home, shivers run down my spine and I immediately knew my life was about to be turned upside down.

without pausing, dad started rambling on about England and the empire and something about wind.

While mom's eyes began to brim with tears and her lip quivered.

Bang! Then it hit me, he was telling me we are moving to England.

The motherland, my heart sank.

I felt like I had just received a blow to the stomach.

I couldn't think, I couldn't speak.

So the Empire, if you can remember some of the vocabulary we learned earlier in this unit.

When we talk about the Empire, we're talking about the British Empire.

So the countries which were ruled by Britain at some point in the past.

And wind, what'd you think the reference to wind is about? He was rumbling on about England and the Empire and something about wind.

Well done if you spotted, a little clue about the Windrush was the name of the ship.

And the motherland, we also looked at this term.

The motherland was England because it was the heart of the British Empire.

Lying on my bed now, my blood is boiling in anger, I don't want to go.

They'll have to drag me onto that boat if they want me to leave, I was born here and my whole life is here.

It's not fair to make me leave.

I will only get on that boat kicking and screaming.

I just can't understand why we're going, Jenna.

Whose perspective do you think this diary entry has been written from? Have some thinking time.

Is it an adult or a child? Well done if you've spotted it, this is written by a child who has been told, an 11 year old girl who has been told that she is migrating with her family to Britain.

How do you think Jenna feels about migrating to England? Do you think she feels positive or negative? One, two, three show me.

Well done everyone.

She feels negative, she feels extremely upset.

Here we're going to learn some new vocabulary to describe Jenna's emotions.

Livid, your turn.

Great, this is an angry word, meaning extremely angry or furious.

How you feel when you lose a video game? Furious, you turn.

Excellent, very angry or enraged.

How you would feel if all the tickets to your favourite band were sold out? Raging, your turn.

Well done.

Furious or fuming, like an angry bull on a rampage.

I like that word fuming as well.

Imagine you are an 11 year old child who's just been told they will be migrating to England on the Empire Windrush.

How would you feel, so if you were in Jenna situation.

I would like you to mind your emotions here.

How would you feel in this situation? Okay everyone, hopefully we've all got lots of vocabulary on our mind maps.

Some of us might think we would have a positive reaction.

Perhaps we would feel excited, raring to go.

Curious about what was life is going to be like in Britain.

Perhaps some of us like Jenna would feel livid and fuming and furious at their families for making them leave.

Now I've got some extra vocabulary.

Speechless, your turn.

Excellent, this is a surprise word meaning dumbstruck or lost for words.

How are you feeling when someone hangs up on you? So shocked, not knowing what to say.

Stunned, your turn.

Great, this is another adjective meaning amaze or dazed or stupefied like being so surprised you instantly freeze.

Now, let's think about some happy words.

Perhaps some of us would feel really positive about migrating to Britain on the Windrush.

Ecstatic, your turn.

Blissful, or perfectly happy.

How you feel if you won an Academy award.

Overjoyed, your turn.

Well done, extremely happy and gleeful.

When you feel like partying.

we've done a really good job of listing lots of emotions.

Now they're very, they're a real mix of emotions.

Some are positive overjoyed and ecstatic.

Some are neutral, like not quite knowing high to feel.

So always being numb, speechless or stunned almost sometimes whenever you get news that you're so surprised about, you don't quite know how to react just yet.

So you might feel quite neutral and some, very negative.

Angry words, very upset.

I would like you to add some of these words to your mind map.

You don't have to add every single one, although you can, if you want to.

But choose a couple or a few words that you really like and think you might use in your writing.

When you write as a child who has just been taught that they are going to travel to England on the Windrush.

Pause the video while you do that.

Okay everyone, so hopefully we've got a mind map now that's full of really rich descriptive vocabulary for the tell aspect of our success criteria.

We're really able to use high level words to explain our emotions.

And now we need to think about some show not tell to match these emotions.

So I have three word banks here, negative emotions, neutral emotions, and positive emotions.

And I've given you an example of a show not tell we could use for each one.

So my heart is still racing.

This could be used for a positive emotion, but it can also be used for negative.

If we're feeling really stressed and angry and upset your heart might race.

If you feel neutral, like you were shocked or stunned or speechless, perhaps your jaw might have dropped in shock.

Show me everybody your jaw dropping in shock.

Well done.

And some positive emotions, I jumped up and down with joy.

So you have one example of a show not tell for each group of emotions.

Now your task is to pause the video so you can add some examples of show not tell to your own word banks.

And you can press play when you are ready.

Okay everyone, we have no come to the end of our lesson.

So we'll end this lesson today with a word bank full of really, really precise, high level, ambitious vocabulary and lots of ideas for show not tell as well.

I'm so impressed with all of your work and this is going to be so useful for us when we come to write our diary entries.

Well done everybody.