Hello everyone.

It's lovely to see you all here today.

My name's Dr.

Clayton, and I'm here to guide you through a learning journey today.

So grab your pen, laptop, whatever you're using for this lesson, and let's get started.

Welcome to the lesson, everyone.

The lesson is called "Analysing Everyday and Unknown Settings." For today's lesson, we're going to be using extracts from L.

Frank Baum's "The Wizard of Oz" in order to analyse the difference between how the everyday setting of Kansas is presented in comparison to the unknown setting of Oz.

In order to analyse those differences, we're going to examine word choices, particularly choices of colours and semantic fields.

So by the end of the lesson, you'll be able to understand and analyse the way different settings are presented.

So we have five words today we're going to focus on as our keywords.

They'll be identified in bold throughout the learning material, and I'll try to point them out to you as well so you can see them being used in context.

Our first keyword is everyday, and this means something encountered or used routinely or typically ordinary.

Now, this is essential for our lesson today because we're going to be examining how an everyday setting is presented.

So how does a writer show us that something is ordinary and routine? Our second keyword is semantic field, and this means a group of words or expressions that are related to meaning.

Writers use semantic fields to create an atmosphere for the reader and help immerse them in a setting.

Our third keyword is unknown, and this means a place, situation or thing that is not known about or understood.

Again, this is essential to our lesson because we're going to be examining how Baum presents Oz as unknown.

So how do we as the reader understand this is something new and not known about by Dorothy? Our fourth keyword is contrast, and this means to compare two people or things in order to show the differences between them.

Writers use contrast in order to emphasise certain aspects of places or things and to create an atmosphere in a text.

Finally, our fifth keyword is present, and that means to give, show, provide or make known.

So when we talk about how a writer presents an idea or place, we're talking about how a writer shows us the idea or place.

So I'll just give you a moment to write down those keywords and their definitions.

So pause the video and write them down now.

Fantastic, let's get started with the lesson.

So we have two learning cycles in our lesson today.

For our first learning cycle, we're going to look at an extract from the beginning of L.

Frank Baum's "The Wizard of Oz," and consider how Baum presents Kansas as an everyday ordinary setting, and how the character of Dorothy feels about that setting.

For our second learning cycle, we're going to continue looking at L.

Frank Baum's "The Wizard of Oz," and consider how Baum presents Oz as an unknown and new setting for Dorothy, and consider how she feels about stepping into that unknown setting.

Throughout the lesson, we're going to look at Baum's word choices, as well as techniques of contrast and semantic fields, in order to consider how these two settings are shown to us as the reader.

Now, before we start looking at the extract, I'd like us to first think about what we associate with the everyday and the ordinary.

What feelings or emotions might we think of? So I'd like you to consider a typical home setting and create a mind map, detailing the words or feelings you associate with it.

So pause the video and create your mind map now.

Fantastic work, everyone.

Some great discussions there.

Now, you might have said, potentially, you might think of it as comforting.

Our home setting should be somewhere we feel comfortable because it's somewhere that has all of our home comforts and things we've grown up with and things we've collected.

Might also said it's familiar, it's somewhere that we return to generally on a daily basis.

So we know where things are and we know how we feel within the space.

Might also have thought it's predictable.

Because we return to it on a daily basis, we might say it's predictable because we have our routine that we stick to within our home setting.

So things don't tend to vary too much.

Might also have said safe.

We think of our home as somewhere safe because fundamentally, it keeps us warm and dry.

But there's also something very comforting about knowing that you have somewhere to retreat to when things aren't going well or you're not feeling good.

Might also have said it's expected.

You know, as humans, we tend to be creatures of habit.

So when we return to somewhere on a near daily basis, we usually follow the same routine.

So things tend to be fairly similar or expected.

We also said mundane.

For some of us, that sense of routine and predictability could be considered mundane and fairly boring because we know what to expect and we know what will happen.

So now we're going to read an extract from L.

Frank Baum's "The Wizard of Oz" together.

This extract is available in the additional materials.

Now, I imagine most of you are familiar with the basic premise of the story, but essentially, Dorothy and her dog Toto are caught in a cyclone and end up in the land of Oz.

In order to get home, they have to follow the yellow brick road to get to the Emerald City to ask Oz, the wizard, to help them get home.

Now, in this extract, Dorothy is at home in Kansas with her aunt and uncle.

As we read, we're going to consider how Baum has presented Kansas as an everyday setting for Dorothy.

Now, those are two of our keywords.

Now, presented means to show or make known, and everyday means something routine and familiar.

So how does Baum show us that Kansas is a place that's routine and familiar to Dorothy? "Dorothy lived in the midst of the great Kansas prairies with Uncle Henry, who was a farmer, "and Aunt Em, who was the farmer's wife.

"The house was small, "for the lumber to build it "had to be carried by waggon many miles.

"There were four walls, a floor and a roof, "which made one room.

"And this room contained a rusty looking cook stove, "a cupboard for the dishes, "a table, three or four chairs and the beds." Now, what I'd like to think about first is what effect does describing the house as small and having one room have on the reader? So pause the video and take a few moments to consider.

Some great discussions there.

It was great to see people noticing there are three people who live in the house.

You have Uncle Henry, Aunt Em and Dorothy.

So we might think that one small room creates the impression of a cramped space that could make someone feel quite claustrophobic because three people living in one room sounds like they'd be in each other's space quite a lot of the time.

Now let's think about the fact that the lumber for the house had to be carried by a waggon many miles.

What can we infer about the fact the building materials for the house had to come from many miles away? So what guess can we make about the house based on that evidence? Pause the video.

Take a few moments to consider.

Fantastic, they might have thought that it implies the house is isolated and far away from anywhere else.

They had to get lumber and timber from elsewhere because it's such an essential everyday material.

You would assume they would've got it from close by if it was available.

So the fact it had to be carried many miles suggests they are far away from anywhere.

So let's continue with the extract.

"Uncle Henry and Aunt Em had a big bed in one corner, "and Dorothy had a little bed in another corner.

"There was no garret at all, "and no cellar, "except for a small hole dug in the ground "called a cyclone cellar "where the family could go "in case one of those great whirlwinds arose, "mighty enough to crush any building in its path.

"It was reached by a trap door in the middle of the floor, "from which a ladder led down into the small, dark hole." Now let's think about the fact that Uncle Henry and Aunt Em have one bed in the corner of the house, and Dorothy has her bed in the other corner.

What might that tell us about Dorothy and her personal space? So pause the video, take a few moments to consider.

Amazing, it was great to see people thinking about how they might feel if they were in Dorothy's situation.

And it might suggest that she doesn't have any personal space of her own.

We might imagine she'd feel quite hemmed in and cramped by this lack of personal space.

Now for a quick check for understanding.

So which one of the following statements is true? A, Dorothy has her own room.

B, Dorothy shares a room with her uncle and aunt.

Or C, Dorothy, her uncle and aunt all have separate rooms. So pause the video and make a selection now.

Correct answer is B.

Dorothy shares a room with her uncle and aunt.

So very well done if you got that right.

"When Dorothy stood in the doorway and looked around, "she could see nothing "but the great grey prairie on every side.

"Not a tree nor a house "broke the broad sweep of the flat country "that reached the edge of the sky in all directions.

"The sun had baked the ploughed land into a grey mass "with little cracks running through it." Now let's just zoom in on a few words and phrases here.

We have nothing, and, "Not a tree nor a house "broke the broad sweep of flat country." Now, what do those phrases emphasise to us about Dorothy's everyday? So pause the video, take a few moments to consider.

Amazing, they might have thought that they emphasised just how isolated and remote her home is.

The use of nothing and not are negative words, and that's just an absence that creates a sense of emptiness.

"Even the grass was not green, "but the sun had burned the tops of the long blades "until they were the same grey colour to be seen everywhere.

"Once, the house had been painted, "but the sun blistered the paint "and the rains washed it away, "and now the house was as dull and grey as everything else." So let's zoom in on the phrases, "The sun had burned," and, "The sun blistered." What do we learn about the sun in this extract? How does that affect Dorothy's everyday home? So pause the video, take a few moments to consider.

Amazing, now, you might have said we generally think of the sun as providing warmth and happiness, but here, the sun is too hot.

It's actually creating a lifeless environment because the grass is burned and the sun has blistered the paint so the houses look cracked and grey.

Now for a quick check for understanding.

What I'd like you to do is tell me whether Baum describes the sun in a positive way.

So pause the video and make a selection now.

Correct answer is false.

He describes it in a negative way.

Now I'd like you to justify that answer.

So does he describe it as negative because, A, the sun is said to burned the grass, or B, the sun is said to have scorched the grass.

So pause the video and make a selection now.

Correct answer is A, the sun is said to have burned the grass.

So very well done if you got that right.

"When Aunt Em came there to live, "she was a young and pretty wife.

"The sun and winter changed her too.

"They had taken the sparkle from her eyes "and left them a sombre grey.

"They'd taken the red from her cheeks and lips, "and they were grey also.

"She was thin and gaunt and never smiled now." So what do we learn about Dorothy's everyday setting and what it's done to Aunt Em? We learn it's taken the sparkle from her eyes, taken the red from her cheeks, and that she never smiled now.

So what do these phrases suggest to you about Aunt Em and what's happened to her? So pause the video, take a few moments to consider.

Amazing, now, you might have said that we learned the environment has drained the life and happiness away from her.

It's turned her into something that mirrors the lifeless and isolated nature of the setting itself.

"When Dorothy, who was an orphan, first came to her, "Aunt Em had been so startled by the child's laughter, "she would scream and press her hand upon her heart "whenever Dorothy's merry voice reached her ears." "She still looked at the little girl "with wonder that she could find anything to laugh at.

"Uncle Henry never laughed.

"He worked hard from morning 'til night, "and did not know what joy was.

"He was grey also, "from his long beard to his rough boots, "and he looked stern and solemn and rarely spoke." Now, I always love looking at the colours used in descriptions because I think it really helps us to understand and visualise the scene and what emotion there is behind it.

Now, throughout the extract, there's been a repetition of grey.

What might that suggest to you? So pause the video, take a few moments to consider.

Amazing, some great thoughts there.

You might have said the repetition of grey throughout to describe the language and the people suggests there's something dull, lifeless and repetitive about Dorothy's home because we associate the colour grey with something monotonous, something metal and lifeless, rather than something alive and energetic.

Now for a quick check for understanding.

Which one of the following statements about Dorothy's everyday is true.

So A, Kansas is described as vibrant and bustling.

B, Dorothy's home is described as large and spacious.

Or C, Kansas is described as isolated and remote.

So pause the video and make your selection now.

The correct answer is C.

Kansas is described as being isolated and remote.

So very well done if you got that right.

Amazing work so far, everyone.

We're now on the first task of the lesson, and we're going to use what we've just read and analysed about Dorothy's everyday setting and use it to make a prediction.

Now, the extract is the opening of L.

Frank Baum's "The Wizard of Oz," before Dorothy discovers the land of Oz.

What I'd like to think about is based on Dorothy's everyday environment and how it's presented, how do you think Dorothy would feel being transported to somewhere new and unknown? So think about the way the house was described with the small room, the isolation, the repetition of the colour grey throughout.

How do you think Dorothy would feel about going somewhere new and different? So pause the video, take a few minutes to discuss.

And welcome back, everyone.

It was great to see people reading back over the extract to remind themselves how Kansas was presented in order to put themselves in Dorothy's shoes and think about how she might feel.

Now, like Laura, you might have thought she'd be really excited to explore somewhere new, given that her everyday is presented as been very isolated and dull.

Kansas is described as a place that seems remote and lifeless.

So you might imagine Dorothy would jump at the chance to explore somewhere new.

Or like Jacob, you might have thought that actually she might be quite scared because it sounds as if her everyday is very predictable and very small.

So she got used to a place that's very small and remote.

Then suddenly being transported somewhere new and unfamiliar might be a very shocking experience, potentially quite frightening as well.

Fantastic work so far, everyone.

We're now onto our second learning cycle, where we're going to read through another extract from L.

Frank Baum's "The Wizard of Oz." But this time, we're going to examine the moment that Dorothy arrives in Oz, and how this unfamiliar setting is shown to us as the reader.

Now we're going to read through a second extract from L.

Frank Baum's "The Wizard of Oz." This extract is also available in additional materials.

Now, in this extract, Dorothy has just arrived in the land of Oz.

As we read, we're going to consider how Baum has presented Oz as an unknown setting for Dorothy.

So how does Baum show us this is a new and unfamiliar place for Dorothy.

What ideas or feelings do we get about the setting as a reader? "The cyclone had set the house down very gently, "for a cyclone, "in the midst of a country of marvellous beauty.

"There were lovely patches of greensward all about, "with stately trees bearing rich and luscious fruits.

"Banks of gorgeous flowers were on every hand, "and birds with rare and brilliant plumage "sang and fluttered in the trees and bushes.

"A little way off was a small brook, "rushing and sparkling along between green banks, "and murmuring in a voice very grateful "to a little girl who had lived so long "in the, dry grey prairies." Now let's just zoom in on a few words and phrases here.

We have marvellous beauty, lovely, rich and luscious fruits, gorgeous flowers and brilliant plumage.

Now, this is a semantic field because all of the adjectives here have a similar meaning.

But what does this semantic field suggest to us about Oz? So pause the video, take a few moments to consider.

Amazing, some great ideas there.

You might have thought having so many words with a similar meaning of beauty and wonder creates the impression that Dorothy is staring wide-eyed at the setting and doesn't know which part of it to look at or focus on first.

It suggests that Oz is a land of wonder and delights and marvels, and that everywhere you go, there's something new and wonderful to look at.

Now let's continue with the extract where Dorothy meets some of the people that live in Oz.

"Three were men, and one a woman, "and all were oddly dressed.

"They wore round hats that rose to a small point "a foot above their heads, "with little bells around the brims "that tinkled sweetly as they moved.

"The hats of the men were blue, "and the little woman's hat was white, "and she wore a white gown "that hung in pleats from her shoulders.

"Over it was sprinkled little stars "that glistened in the sun like diamonds." Now let's zoom in on the simile, "Glistened in the sun like diamonds," and consider what is the effect of that simile? How does it make us as a reader feel? And what does using a simile in general suggest about the unknown? So pause the video, take a few moments to consider.

Amazing, now, you might have thought the simile suggests that objects in Oz are beautiful and precious because diamonds are beautiful and precious.

Now, generally, similes can be used to take something abstract and turn it into something familiar for the reader so they can visualise a scene.

So by using a simile, Baum is suggesting to us that the unknown needs a comparison in order to understand it because it's so far away from our normal everyday lives.

Now, the men's hats are described as blue, and the woman's hat and dress are described as white.

So what is the effect of using colour in this description of Oz? How does it compare to Kansas? Pause the video.

Take a few moments to consider.

Amazing.

Now, you might have thought that everything in Kansas was described as grey, which gave a very monotonous and lifeless impression.

In contrast, we have the colours of blue and white used here, which suggests that Oz is a place of vibrancy and life in comparison to Kansas.

Now for a quick check for understanding.

So what I'd like you to do is tell me whether the following statement is true or false.

So is it true or false that Oz is described as being very similar to Kansas? Pause video and make your selection now.

The correct answer is false.

It is not described as being similar to Kansas.

Now I'd like you to justify that answer.

So are they dissimilar because A, Oz is described as being more wondrous than Kansas, or B, Oz is described as being more mundane than Kansas.

Pause the video and make your selection now.

The correct answer is A, Oz is described as being more wondrous than Kansas.

So very well done if you got that right.

Fantastic work, everyone.

We're now onto the final task of the lesson.

So what I'd like you to do is take everything we've talked about throughout the lesson and use it to answer the question, how does Baum present the unknown setting of Oz as a contrast to the everyday setting of Kansas? So how does Baum show us that the unfamiliar place of Oz is different to the familiar place of Kansas? Now, I've got a sentence starter here that you might like to use.

Sentence starters are really useful because there's nothing worse than staring at a blank page and waiting for inspiration to come.

And once you've used sentence starters a few times, you'll start to automatically use them, and that will help you to express your ideas in a concise way.

So the sentence starter is Baum presents the unknown setting of Oz as, whereas the everyday setting of Kansas is shown as.

So the blank space is where you'd say your ideas.

So you might say something beautiful in comparison to dull.

Now, remember to use quotations from the extract as evidence of your ideas.

So look back over the extracts and select which words or phrases from the extract act as evidence of your ideas.

So pause the video and write your answer now.

Welcome back, everyone.

It was great to see people reading back through the extracts and really making sure they're selecting the best quotations as evidence for ideas.

And you might have said that Baum presents the unknown setting of oz as wondrous and beautiful, whereas the everyday setting of Kansas is shown as mundane and lifeless.

The semantic field of beauty and colour to describe Oz contrasts with the repetition of grey to describe Kansas, and suggests that Oz is full of vibrancy and life, whereas Kansas is dull and predictable.

Furthermore, Baum's use of a simile to describe Oz implies that Oz needs a comparison for the reader to truly comprehend how delightful it is, and the lack of simile to describe Kansas suggests that it's ordinary and easy for the reader to picture.

You all did amazingly well today, everyone.

Here's a summary of what we covered.

Baum describes the everyday setting of Kansas as dull and predictable.

Baum describes the unknown setting of Oz as wondrous and beautiful.

And the contrasting use of colour in the descriptions depicts Kansas as a lifeless place and Oz as one of vitality.

I really hope you enjoyed the lesson, everyone, goodbye.