Hello there, great to see you today.

Thank you for joining me as we continue to explore the poetry of the "Edexcel Belonging" poetry anthology".

My name is Mr. Barnsley and I'm really glad you've chosen to join me today as we look at a new poem.

This is "Captain Cook (To My Brother)", and you are gonna want to make sure you have a copy of this poem in front of you.

Of course, it is in the "Edexcel Poetry Anthology", so if you've got that, then you will be able to find the poem in there.

But either way, you're gonna need to make sure you have your own copy, because you're gonna be doing some independent reading later in today's lesson.

Okay, once you have everything you need, then I think it's time for us to get started.

Let's dive in.

So let's have a look at today's outcome then, shall we? By the end of today's lesson, you are gonna be able to explain how Landon presents ideas of childhood and the relationship with her brother.

So four words we're gonna be looking out for in today's lesson are nostalgia, imaginary, reminiscing and belonging.

Now, nostalgia is a feeling of pleasure, but also slight sadness when you think about things that have happened in the past.

Imaginary means something created by and existing only in the mind.

Reminiscing means to talk or to write about past experiences that you remember with pleasure and belonging means a feeling of being happy or comfortable as part of a particular group.

So let's keep an eye out for all these four words and perhaps we will end up using them in some of our discussions today.

So we are gonna be reading and understanding the poem, "Captain Cook (To My Brother)".

And in the first part of today's lesson, we're really gonna be kind of preparing to read this by doing some of our own thinking, thinking around some of the topics and ideas that we are gonna see in this poem, but giving our own personal response to them.

And then we'll dive in to read the poem and make sure we've understood.

So you are gonna want to make sure you've got a copy of the poem in front of you.

Remember, it is in the "Edexcel Belonging" poetry anthology.

And then I think it's ready for us to get started.

So we're exploring a poem called, "Captain Cook (To My Brother)".

Now, Captain Cook was an explorer, cartographer and naval officer.

So what are your initial thoughts about the title? Why might Landon be dedicating a poem about an explorer to her brother? I'm gonna hand this one over to you.

So if you've got a partner, you can discuss this with them, otherwise you can just think through this independently.

Why, why this title? Why might a poet dedicate a poem about an explorer to her brother? Pause the video, have a think, have a discuss and press play when you've got some ideas and you're ready to continue.

Welcome back.

I wonder if you said anything similar to our Oak pupil Sam who said, "Maybe her brother found Captain Cook inspirational." Maybe this was a character, a person that her brother was really fond of or maybe her brother had some links, maybe he did something similar.

Maybe he was an explorer or a naval officer.

Maybe there was some similarities between the two.

I wonder if you made some similar predictions, had some similar thoughts when you were having your discussions.

Now I'm gonna give you a few words from the poem and an image which could potentially represent some images that we might see in the poem.

So the words I want you to think about are dreaming, fairy land, discovered, creations.

On the image you can see a picture of two young children dressed up and I want you to think then, what do you think the connections between Captain Cook and the siblings, the poet and her brother might be now? I've given you some more clues.

See if you can use these to develop your predictions, your inferences further.

All right, over to you again for this.

Pause the video, discuss with a partner or think through independently and press play when you're ready to continue.

Welcome back, I heard some great ideas there.

I wanna shine a spotlight on some of those fantastic things I heard some of you saying.

I heard some of you saying maybe that Landon and her brother potentially use Captain Cook's stories and explorations to go on their own imaginary adventures.

So maybe starting to think about young children playing these really imaginative games.

Maybe they were inspired by the legacy, the legend of Captain Cook.

Now over to you then.

I talked about us potentially creating a personal response around some of the ideas from the poem and I want to hand over to you and do you remember any imaginary adventures you went on as a child? How do you feel about them thinking back to them now? Can you think of any of the games or adventures that you thought about when you were a child using your imagination? What were they and how do you feel when you think back at them now that you're a bit older? All right, pause the video, over to you to really start reminiscing, one of our keywords, thinking back fondly, reminiscing on some of the imaginary adventures you might have gone on as a child.

All right, pause the video, have a think and press play when you're ready to share.

Welcome back.

If you have got people around you to share with, I think this would be really interesting.

It's always really interesting and sometimes quite funny to hear the kind of games and imaginary worlds that we created as youngsters.

I'm gonna share a couple of examples from our Oak pupils as well.

So if you're working by yourself, you can compare the kind of imaginary adventures you went on to them.

So Sam said, "I remember going on an adventure to find tigers and lions in our garden.

And actually sometimes it makes me feel a little bit sad that our imagination doesn't feel as big a part of our life as it once did." Izzy said, "I remember trying to find fairy homes.

I enjoyed it at the time, but I don't think they're part of my life now that I'm getting older." So kind of sees this very much of a very specific moment of her childhood that is maybe not part of her life as much anymore.

I wonder if you said something similar to either of our Oak pupils in your discussions.

All right, let's pause for a moment, check our understanding of what we've been discussing so far.

Which of the following best represents childhood imagination? Is it picture A, two children going for a walk in a park? Is it picture B, two children doing some quiet work? Or is it C, three children dressing up? Which one do you think best represents childhood imagination? Pause the video and press play when you think you have the answer.

Well done if you said C.

I think all of them in some ways we could link to imagination, it depends exactly what you're doing in the park or what that quiet work is.

Maybe you are kind of creating a story, but I think when we think of childhood imagination, think of dressing up, becoming other characters, living in other worlds might remind us of the imagination that we had and the imagination we used to use as young children.

Okay, over to you then for our first task in today's lesson.

From the title and some of the words from the poem, we can predict that the poem is about childhood imagination and make-believe.

Landon's "Captain Cook (To My Brother)" appears in the "Edexcel Belonging" anthology.

And a belonging means a feeling of being happy or comfortable as part of a particular group.

I want you to think then, how do you think the idea of childhood imaginary games might connect to ideas of belonging? Why might a poem about childhood imagination belong, excuse the pun, belong in an Edexcel anthology entitled, "Belonging".

Now, I think this would be a fantastic task to do as a discussion if you've got a partner or you can work in a small group.

So if you've got people to work with, do share your ideas with them.

But don't worry if you're working by yourself, you could either jot down some ideas and think about what you would say to someone if you could have a discussion with them or you can just think through this question independently.

But definitely take some time now to pause the video, discuss and try and make some connections between this idea of childhood imagination and the idea of belonging.

All right, pause the video, have a think, have a discuss and press play when you're ready to continue.

Welcome back, some really fantastic discussions there.

It was nice to see you trying to make those connections.

We're gonna take a moment before we move on to pause, reflect on the discussions that we've had and we're gonna do this by comparing our work to model discussions from some of our Oak pupils.

Whenever we're sharing the work, whenever I'm sharing model example answers, three questions that I would always ask myself.

How are these ideas similar to mine? How are these ideas different to mine? And are there any ideas that I really like and might use in my future analysis? So let's have a look at what two of our Oak pupils said and you can ask yourself those questions.

Are your ideas similar or different? Similar to Sam and Izzy's? Are they different Sam and Izzy's? And do you like any of their ideas and you might kind of keep these at the forefront of your mind as you read the poem.

So Sam said, "I think creating imaginary games can help us understand the world, because our imaginations come from our experience and that could help us find our place in the world." Izzy says, "I think playing imaginary games with someone else can help you feel as if you belong, because you're sharing ideas and enjoyment alongside someone else." All right, take a moment now to pause the video and reflect on the discussions you had and compare them to Sam and Izzy and then press play when you're ready to continue.

Okay, welcome back, we did some really nice work in that first learning cycle thinking about some of the ideas that we're expecting to see in this poem and how they make us feel and perhaps even doing some reminiscing of our own childhood.

Now we're gonna move on to reading the poem and making sure we understand it.

So I've already said a couple of times now, you're gonna need a copy of the poem itself.

You will find Landon's "Captain Cook (To My Brother) in the "Edexcel Belonging" poetry anthology or you might have your own copy in front of you, but it's really important that you can see a copy of the poem, because I'm gonna hand over to you now to do some independent reading.

So I want you to read this poem to yourself and I want you to read it at least twice.

Okay, I want you to read it at least twice, because I am gonna check to see that you've understood what this poem is about.

All right, pause the video, over to you to do some independent reading.

Remember to press play when you think you're done and you're ready to move on.

Over to you.

Welcome back, some great independent reading there.

What I want you to think about now is how would you summarise the poem? So you should have read it more than once.

You should have read it at least twice.

How would you summarise the poem? What's it about, what's happening? If you could put the poem into one sentence, what would you say? Pause the video, if you've got a partner, you could do this together, otherwise you could just do this independently.

All right, pause the video, summarise the poem and press play when you think you've got some ideas that you're ready to share.

Welcome back, I wonder if you said something similar to Izzy who said that the speaker is reminiscing about imaginary games they used to play with their brother.

That keyword reminiscing is thinking back, looking back fondly and thinking about kind of happy memories about her playing imaginary games with her brother.

I wonder if you said something similar.

So throughout the poem, we know that the speaker is reminiscing, thinking back fondly about their childhood imaginary games.

And then the speaker refers to growing up as leaving fairy land behind.

What tone does this create? What tone does it create by suggesting that kind of growing up can be referred to as leaving fairy land behind? Pause the video, have a think in pairs or by yourself.

What tone does this create? Press play when you're ready to continue.

Some really nice discussions there, well done.

I want to shine the spotlight on some of you who used one of our keywords.

Well done if you remembered this.

Creating a nostalgic tone.

Remember, nostalgia is looking back with, kind of fondly on memories, but also with a slight kind of tinge of sadness, because you might think, well those memories can never happen again.

So Sam said, and I heard lots of you say, "I think it creates an nostalgic tone where the memories are really pleasant, but they are tinged with sadness, because they are only memories now." She can't have those childhood experiences with her sibling again.

So when they were children, it appears that Landon and her brother were very close.

What evidence of this closeness can you see in the poem? Pause the video and if you've got a partner, you can do this together or you can just work through this independently.

But I want you to now go back looking through the poem, become that detective, find some evidence that suggests Landon and her brother were really close.

All right, pause the video, poems at the ready and find some evidence for me, over to you.

Well done, it was great to see so many of you looking at the poem so closely there.

Sam said that the continual reference to that pronoun we shows their connection and it's a collective pronoun.

It shows that kind of they are collectively as one and it really shows how they're also creating these imaginary games together.

Now Izzy noticed, and I heard lots of you saying this, "The semantic field of joy, fancies, delight, pleasant, all of these show their happiness together." All right, let's check our understanding before we continue with the lesson.

The use of we whilst reminiscing about their childhood imaginary games suggest which of the following.

Is it A, that there was always distance between the speaker and their brother? Is it B, that the speaker and her brother were connected and forming imaginary games together? Or is it C, that the speaker was creating the imaginary games and her brother was just joining in.

A, B or C, pause the video and then press play when you think you've got the right answer.

Yeah, great work if you said B.

It really suggests this connection.

A collective pronoun suggests that they are collective, collectively one here in their creation of these imaginary games.

Well done if you've got that correct.

However, we do learn in the poem that Landon and her brother grew apart as adults.

Back over to you to forensically look through the poem to find evidence that suggests a distance by the end of the poem.

All right, pause the video, have a look and press play when you've got some ideas.

Welcome back.

I really liked it when you focused on this line, "Talk no more," and it could really represent both their relationship, but also the lack of imaginary games.

Like a lot of imaginary games that are played as children are played through speech, they're played through talking and communicating with each other.

So talk no more could suggest there is less communication in their relationship, but also the lack of imaginary games.

Some of you talk about the ending of the poem, the ending of "Mourned his fall", and it could really suggest mourned, you might have heard the word mourning and that is often linked with grief and the loss of someone.

If someone is in mourning, it often means that someone close to them has died and they are grieving.

So perhaps it could suggest a grieving of a loss of that relationship, the relationship that was clearly so strong as they were children.

So true or false then.

Arguably, the poem ends with a despondent and regretful tone.

Do you think that the poem ends in a kind of slightly sad way, almost like slightly hopeless way and a sense of regret from the speaker? Is that true or false? Pause the video, have a think and press play when you've got an idea.

Well done if you said true.

Let's justify that then.

Ending with the idea that the speaker and their brother talk no more creates a despondent tone.

Ending with the word mourned creates a regretful tone.

Which of these is the correct justification? Pause the video, have a think and press play when you've got some ideas.

Yeah, well done, it's the word mourned which we see towards the end of the poem.

All right then, over to you for our final task in today's lesson.

Throughout the majority of the poem, Captain Cook referred to as a hero and an idol.

However, at the end of the poem, he is called that sea captain.

What do you think this shift represents from being a hero and an idol to just being that sea captain? I want you to write a short answer, about a paragraph.

Things you may wish to consider in your response, what it might represent about Landon's relationship with her brother, what it might represent about childhood in general.

All right, over to you for this task.

Pause the video, give it a go and press play when you're ready to continue.

Welcome back, it was great to see you writing with such confidence there, trying to build in as many of the discussions that we've had in today's lesson.

Before we finish today, we are gonna take a moment of reflection to think about the work that we have just created, that we've just written and we're gonna compare it to a model answer, an example answer from one of our Oak pupils.

As I said earlier, whenever we look at a model answer, things that should be going through your head is, how is my work similar? How is my work different? And are there any ideas that I might like to use in my analysis to support my understanding of the poem? So Izzy writes, "I think the shift from calling Captain Cook a hero to then that sea captain represents both the loss of the speaker's relationship with her brother and a loss of childhood.

The title of the poem specifically dedicates the idea of Captain Cook to Landon's brother, and therefore the change to that sea captain could imply that Landon is acknowledging that the connection with their brother no longer exists.

Furthermore, the change from hero to sea captain shows that Captain Cook no longer inspires the same imaginary games, which may reflect the idea that childhood and childhood games are only temporary." Okay, pause the video.

Where do your ideas align? Where have you got similar ideas? where are your ideas different and are there any ideas from Izzy's that you would like to take and use in your own work? If so, now is the time to improve your paragraph.

So pause the video, take a moment for reflection and press play when you're ready to continue.

Okay, welcome back, that's it.

We've reached the end of today's lesson.

You've done a fantastic job understanding the poem, "Captain Cook (To My Brother)".

On the screen, you can see a summary of all the learning that we've covered so far.

Let's quickly go through it together so you can feel really confident before you move on.

We've learned that Landon's poem is a nostalgic memory of a time spent playing with her brother in the garden.

The use of we and the semantic field of happiness arguably represents Landon's happy childhood relationship with her brother.

However, the mourning at the end of the poem could represent their distance as adults.

Landon's poem may be read as a reminder that childhood is temporary and relationships can change.

All right, great work today.

Thank you so much for joining me.

I really hope to see you again in one of our lessons in the future.

Have a great day with the rest of your day however you choose to spend it and I hope to see you all soon.

Bye-Bye.