Hello there.

Thank you for joining me today.

My name is Mr. Barnsley and I'm so glad to see you for this lesson in the unit, Step into the unknown.

Today we're gonna be responding to key ideas from an unseen extract from the text, "The Dark Lady." For today's lesson, you are gonna need your own copy of a Akala's text, "The Dark Lady." We are gonna be reading the 2021 Hodder edition of this book.

Do make sure you have a copy, so you can read the extract yourself.

Okay, I think it's time for us to get started.

So, let's have a look at our outcome for today's lesson.

So, by the end of today's lesson, you will be able to make inferences about an unseen extract and respond to the use of imagery in that extract.

Now, there are five key words that are really gonna help us unlock today's lesson.

Let's have a look at them in a bit more detail.

So, the first is predict.

So, before we read any text, we always need to make some predictions to say what we think will happen in the future.

That's what predicting means and it's a really helpful skill in helping us unpick text that we haven't looked at before.

We're also gonna be doing some inferring later and that's forming an opinion or guessing that something is true, because of the information you have.

So, use the information that we have at our disposal to form opinions or to make some educated yeses.

Translate is gonna be a really important verb in the text that we're looking at and it means to change words in a different language or that's one meaning of it and that's the meaning that we'll be using today.

Connotations are feelings or ideas that are suggested by a word in addition to its basic meaning.

And we're also gonna be writing some summaries in today's lesson.

That means a brief clear statement, giving the most important facts about something.

If you need to pause the video and make a note of these words.

Otherwise, let's get started.

So, there are three learning cycles in today's lesson.

We're gonna be making inferences in the first learning cycle before we read this extract for the first time.

And then in the third learning cycle we're gonna dive in a little bit deeper and make sure we've understood some of those key ideas.

So, let's start by making some inferences.

So, today we're gonna be reading an extract from a Akala's, "The Dark Lady." But before we start reading, we're gonna make some inferences and predictions about the main character, Henry and the plot of the text.

So, I want you to think, why do you think it's so useful to practise the skills of inference and prediction? Pause the video and if you've got a partner you can discuss with them.

But if you're working by yourself, you can just take a few moments to think through this independently.

Okay, pause the video, have a think and press Play when you are ready to continue.

I heard some lovely ideas there, really well done to all of you who were saying that predicting is really important, because reading a text for the first time can be quite challenging.

And by predicting, by maybe looking at the front cover or looking at the title or looking at some of the other clues that we have, it can really help us understand a text.

And this is even more important when we're just reading a very short extract from a novel.

I'm gonna need to give you lots of things to give you a bit more context, so that that extract makes sense.

I really liked what some of you were saying, about making inferences as well and you might have shared some of the things that Sam said.

They said it allows us to consider how a writer influences our understanding through their choices.

We're always thinking about the language, the writer's choices, whether they're language choices or structural choices and we're thinking, "Okay, how does that influence us? "What are their choices? "How are they impacting me as a reader?" So, that's always something that's really important for us to think about.

So, I'm gonna give you a bit of information about the novel, "The Dark Lady." So, the our extract that we're reading today, makes a bit of sense.

So, the main character, Henry is a 15-year-old boy and he's living in Elizabethan England.

That's Elizabeth The First.

So, a long, long time ago, the late 1500s.

We learned that Henry believes he is an orphan, which means he has no mother, father, no parent figures in his life and he lives in an extremely poor area of London.

Discuss then, what do you think a boy in his position, might be forced to do to survive in London, living by himself as an orphan? Pause the video, discuss with your partner if you have one or think through this question by yourself if you are working independently and press Play when you are ready to continue.

Some fantastic discussions there, lots of you talking about how difficult Henry's life must be.

Well done to those of you who said things like Laura did, which that he might be forced to steal, pickpockets, taking things out of the pockets of passes by to survive.

And that is true.

That's what Henry has to resort to doing.

He has to pickpockets or steal from rich people's houses to survive.

So, what do you think Henry's life would've been like? Pause the video, have a think and press Play when you're ready to continue.

Yes, well done if you said things like Sam said, which this would've been a very, very hard life, you're never knowing whether you're gonna be able to eat or not.

And we know how important eating is to survival.

Izzy said, actually I think it would've been quite scary, because Henry knows what he's doing is wrong, but he feels like he has no other option.

So, he must be constantly worried about getting caught.

Henry is also described as having brown skin.

I want you to think about how do you think this might have affected people and how they perceive Henry in Elizabethan England.

Remembering, as I said, Elizabethan England is the late 1500s.

So, we are talking four, 500 years ago almost.

So, have a think.

What do you think life would've been like for Henry and how might his skin colour have affected how people perceived him? Pause the video, have a think, have a discuss and press Play when you are ready to continue.

Welcome back.

Some really sensitive and sensible discussions there.

Well done.

So, Laura said this might have made his life harder, 'cause actually in the book, people call him derogatory names.

They treat him like he's inferior, because of the colour of his skin.

So, there might have been, and there certainly were in some sections of society, people who believed that people with darker skin were inferior to those of lighter skin in Elizabethan England.

And Laura saying, "Well, actually that's probably gonna make "his life quite difficult, "particularly in Elizabethan London." Well done if you said something similar.

So, during the course of the story however, we find out that Henry has a magical ability and that ability is to read anything that he has in front of him, even if he doesn't know the language that it's written in.

How valuable do you think that skill would be in Elizabethan England? Pause the video, discuss or thinking independently, how important might this skill be? Think about what you might know about Elizabethan England and potentially what you know about their access to education.

Alright, I won't give anything more away.

Pause the video, have a think, have a discuss and press Play when you are ready to continue.

Some fantastic ideas there.

I really liked how some of you might have been using, some knowledge that you picked up in other subjects like history to aid your discussion.

Now Lucas said, I think it would be extremely valuable, because people didn't have the same easy access to education and translators that we have today.

We are very lucky in the UK today that we have access to education and lots of us will be able to access, translators maybe using online translators, but they wouldn't have existed in Elizabethan England.

So, this was a really fantastic skill for Henry to have.

Alright, let's check how we're understanding what we know about the text so far.

True or false, Henry has a difficult, dangerous life.

Pause the video, have a think and press play when you are ready to continue.

Well done if you said true, of course we've talked about Henry being an orphan.

Now, let's think about how we justify that.

Is it that Henry is forced to steal to survive or is it B that he's forced to work for very unsavoury, maybe not very nice characters to survive.

Pause the video, have a think about what we've discussed so far and press play when you are ready to continue.

Really, well done if you said he's forced to steal to survive.

So, that makes his life very dangerous, because not only is he at risk of not having enough food to eat, but also we know he's committing crimes, he's doing wrong.

So, he's always in danger of getting caught and getting in trouble.

Alright, well done if you've got that correct.

Okay, we're gonna move on to our first task now and we're gonna make some predictions.

So, I've told you a little bit about Henry's life and now you are gonna make some predictions using that knowledge that you have about Henry.

Now, I'm gonna tell you three more things that happen in this novel so we have a bit more context when we start to read our unseen extract.

What I want you to do is use your knowledge and understanding of Henry's life to make a prediction about how he might respond to these things happening.

So, firstly, a noble man.

A rich man offers him a life of luxury if he leaves his friends behind and uses his magic ability to help the rich man.

Henry also learns that his friends betray him in the novel and he also learns that his mother is still alive and living in Venice in Italy.

So, these are three things that happen in the novel.

I want you to use your predicting skills, your inference skills to think about what you know about Henry's life, what we've already talked about and how this might impact how he responds to these three things you can see on screen.

It is now time for you to pause your video, make your predictions and press Play when you're ready to continue.

Alright, we are gonna do a little bit of reflection in our feedback section here before we move on.

So, what I'm gonna do is share three Oak pupils responses to or what they said, the predictions they made.

And I want you to think whether you agree with them or not, you can compare them to your own predictions.

So, Aisha said, "I think he's had such a hard life growing up "that he would have to accept the noble man's offer." Sam said, "I think he's gonna be devastated "by his friend's betrayal." And Jacob said, "I think he'd want to try "and find his mother to find out where she's been "for the last 15 years." So, that's what our wrote pupil said.

I want you to pause the video, compare their predictions to your predictions and think, "Do you agree with them? "Why or why not?" Okay, you can either discuss with a partner or you can just think through this independently.

Pause the video, do a bit of reflecting and press Play when you're ready to continue.

Okay, welcome back.

It's time for us now to read the extract.

Really exciting.

So, we are gonna be reading an extract from the text.

You are gonna need your copy of the 2021 edition, Hodder edition of a Akala's, "The Dark Lady." Alright, I did tell you at the beginning of the lesson, so hope you've all got it in front of you.

If you haven't, now's the time to pause your video and get your copy of the book.

Alright, I hope everyone has their copy, 'cause it's now time for us to start reading.

We are gonna start on page 66, starting at the second paragraph.

And I would like you to read to the end of the page and at the end of the page, we're gonna pause and see if we can answer these questions.

What is Henry being asked to do? How does Henry feel about doing this? And what does Joan give Leander in return for the books? Okay, pause a video, read and see if you can answer these questions.

Press Play when you are ready to continue, over to you.

How was that? Let's have a look at how, you might have answered those questions.

So, well done if you realise that Henry's been asked to translate some books, translate being our keyword there and we know he feels really excited by this.

Well, done if you spotted any of the clues that suggested he felt excited.

And finally we know Joe gives Leander, three medicine potions.

Well done if you spotted that.

Okay, let's continue with our reading, starting at the top, page 67.

You're gonna read page 67 and page 68 and that's when you're gonna pause to answer the following questions, to check your understanding.

Question one, where do Henry and Joan go? Question two, what sort of light comes from the room? And question three, what magical gift does Joan have? Okay, pause the video over to you, time to do some reading and then answer these questions to check your understanding.

Press Play when you're ready to continue.

Some lovely reading there.

Well done everybody.

Let's have a look at how you might have answered these questions.

So, you might have noticed that Henry and Joan, go through a magical door and the light coming from that door is golden.

And finally, you might have noticed that Joan's magical gift is cheap.

Well done if you spotted, if you could answer all of those things that shows your understanding the text.

Alright, we're gonna resume our reading now at the start of page 69 and we're gonna pause at the end of page 70 to answer the questions, as we know by now to check we are understanding what we are reading.

These questions are how does Henry activate his magic? What do the letters look like when he's using his magic? And what does Henry see within the text? Pause the video, over to you for some reading and some answering of these questions to check that you are understanding, press play when you are ready to continue.

Welcome back some fantastic reading going on there and well done if you said any of the following.

Henry places his left hand above the book and takes a deep breath.

That's how he activates his magic.

The letters, well they look different colours and different shapes and we know that Henry can see visions of what happens in the text.

Well done if you've got all of those correct, 'cause that shows you've understood everything you've read so far in today's lesson.

Okay, let's do a check, shall we, to see how we're getting on with our understanding of this unseen extract.

So, true or false, Henry enjoys using his magic.

Pause a video, have a think and press Play when you ready to continue.

Yes, well done if you said true.

Fantastic.

Now, let's justify that.

Is it A, he rushes to get the new books or is it B, he tells Leander how excited he is to have the new books? Pause the video, have a think, press Play when you are ready to continue.

Well done if you said he rushes to get the new books.

Well done if you've got both of those questions right.

Okay, we're now gonna create a summary of the extract to show that we understand everything that we have read.

Why do you think creating summaries is a useful exercise? Pause the video, have a think and press Play when you're ready to continue.

Great discussion there.

I hope you said something similar to what Sam said.

It allows us to evaluate information and consider what is the most important.

So, we are gonna be using this table below to verbally note the important information about Henry and his magic in the extract.

So, whenever we're summarising, we always want to think who or what is this text about? What did they or will they do? When, where and how did they do the things that they did? So, let's have a think then.

What is the important information from this extract? Well, this is an extract really focused on the character of Henry, and we know that he's going to use magic to read and translate previously unknown books, when? Well, when new Brooks are brought to him.

Where? In a secret magical room.

And how? By placing his left hand above the book and breathing.

So, which of the following statements is true, about a summary.

Is A, summary allows us to analyse word choices.

B, a summary allows us to evaluate information and decide what's the most important or is it C, a summary allows us to write our own review of a text? Pause video, have a think and press Play when you're ready to continue.

Well done if you said B, a summary is gonna allow us to evaluate information and decide what's the most important.

Okay, now over to you.

You are going to use the table that we just created together to write up a summary of the extract and how Henry uses of his magic.

Pause the video, write your summary and press play when you're ready to continue.

Okay, let's do some reflection now by comparing our summary to Sophia's.

Let's check she's included all the information we wanted her to.

So, she wrote, "In the extract, Henry has been brought some new books "and he's going to use his magic "to translate these previously unknown books.

"He unlocks his magic "by putting his left hand above the book "and breathing deeply." Let's have a look.

Let's check this against our success criteria.

Who/What? Well, yes, she talks about Henry.

Did, yes, she explains what Henry is going to do.

When? Yes, she tells us when the new books are brought to him.

Where? No, she forgets to tell us where this is all happening, but she does tell us how.

So, how could we improve Sophia's summary? What would we need to add to make it better? Pause video.

Have a think and press Play when you're ready to continue.

Well done if you said something similar, adding something along the lines of within the secret magical room, would really elevate Sophia's summary.

Well done if you said something similar.

Right, it is now time for us to dive deeper and see if we can understand key ideas in this extract.

So, on our second read through of an extract, we want to consider the writer's choices in order to understand meaning.

Writers can influence the way that we as a reader perceive certain actions or emotions through their very specific word choices.

So, I wait to look at the start of the second paragraph on page 66 and I want you to write down that first sentence and we're gonna use that to create a mind map, around the quote to show the connotations that the imagery has.

So, there's a word in there, butterflies, okay? I want you to think about what connotations, what ideas come to mind when you think of the word butterflies.

Why don't you pause the video and have a think and press Play when you're ready to continue.

Great work.

Some lovely ideas pulling out the connotations that this imagery has.

You might have said things like beauty or hope, freedom or transformation.

All of these are excellent words and I'm sure you might have come up with some other ideas, some other connotations with the imagery that you can see on the screen.

Great work.

So, let's check then, which of the following words, do we generally associate with butterflies? Is it wealth, transformation, or magic? Pause the video.

Have a think and press Play when you're ready to continue.

Well done if you said transformation.

We know butterflies are the results of the transformation from caterpillar to butterfly.

So, well done if you got B there.

Right, we're onto our final task of today's lesson and we're gonna have a discussion.

I want you to think why Akala, the writer, has chosen to use the image of a butterfly in the first sentence of the second paragraph on page 66.

Here are some things I want you to consider.

What is Henry's life normally like and how might the connotations of a butterfly, link to Henry's use of magic? Alright, use those two questions to guide your discussion.

If you are working with a partner, this is great.

You can discuss with them.

If you're working by yourself independently, you may wish to find someone to have a discussion with or you can work independently, thinking through these questions to yourself and maybe even making a couple of notes if you wish.

Alright, pause the video, time to discuss, time to think and press Play when you are ready to continue.

Okay, welcome back.

Some fantastic discussions there.

We're gonna have a moment of reflection by comparing the discussions we had to the one Sophia had.

You can see her response on the screen.

So, Sophia said, "I think a Akala's use of a butterfly symbolises "the transformative power of Henry's magic "and how it takes his drab, hard life "and turns it into something powerful and beautiful." What do you think about Sophia's explanation? Do you agree with it? Why or why not? Pause the video, have a think and press Play when you are ready to continue.

Okay, welcome back, some fantastic discussions there.

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

I have been so impressed how you have tackled an unseen extract, using your inference skills and using your prediction skills and I've been really, really pleased to see how we've dived a little bit deeper into the imagery in that extract.

And you use that imagery to pull out some key ideas.

On the screen, you can see a summary of everything we've covered today.

You may wish to pause the video and read through each of these bullet points carefully and check that you feel really confident with your learning.

If you don't, don't worry you can always go back and watch sections of this video again, but please do make sure you're feeling really confident with everything you've learned, before you move on to your next lesson.

It's been great learning with you today.

I hope you have a fantastic rest of your day, whatever you choose to do with it and I hope to see you all in one of our lessons soon.

Thank you very much.

Goodbye.