Hello everyone.

It's lovely to see you all here today.

My name's Dr.

Clayton.

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

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

Welcome the lesson everyone.

Today's lesson is called Returning from the Unknown.

Today we're going to look at extract from L.

Frank Baum, "The Wizard of Oz," and analyse the moment that Dorothy leaves Oz to return to Kansas to explore how she feels about that moment of returning from the unknown.

We're then going to consider what the theme and message behind the ending of the Wizard of Oz is.

Often writers want to teach us something, through their writing and I think that's why I love reading books so much, 'cause they tell us something about the human experience.

We can use them to learn more about ourselves and the world around us.

So, we five words today, we're going to focus on as our key words.

They've 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 key word is return, and that means to come or go back to a previous place, subject, activity or condition.

In today's lesson, we're looking at the moment that Dorothy returns or goes back to a home in Kansas from the fantastical world of Oz.

Our second keyword is infer, which means to form an opinion or guess that something is true because of the information you have.

It's an essential skill in English, because we never truly know what a writer's intentions are, so we need to make a guess based on the text in front of us.

Our third keyword is theme, and this is a central topic, subject or message within a narrative.

Today we're going to be considering what the theme or message is from "The Wizard of Oz." Our fourth keyword is learn and this means to get new knowledge or skill in a subject or activity.

Now, reading books is always a process of learning, because it exposes you to new knowledge and new ways of looking at the world.

Our final keyword is tone and that means the overall mood or attitude of a text.

We're going to consider what the overall mood is from the ending of "The Wizard of Oz," by looking at the language that Baum uses.

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, two learning cycles in our lesson today.

For our first learning cycle, we're going to read through the ending of L.

Frank Baum's, "The Wizard of Oz," and consider how Dorothy feels about returning from the unknown.

To do that, we're going to look at specific word choice by Baum, as well as considering what the overall tone or mood of the ending is.

For our second learning cycle, we're going to look at the theme of "The Wizard of Oz." So what is the message behind the story? And to do that, we're first going to define what a theme is and consider why a writer might choose to use one.

And then we're going to consider what happens to each of the characters at the end of the story and what Baum might be trying to tell us, through those events.

So, in today's lesson, we're going to be examining the ending of L.

Frank Baum's, "The Wisdom Oz," to consider Dorothy's return from the unknown.

So Dorothy, coming back from the unknown to a familiar place in Kansas.

Now, what I'd like you to start off by doing is thinking about what do you already know or remember, about the plot of "The Wizard of Oz." So, pause the video, take a few moments to consider.

Amazing, some great ideas there.

Like Lucas, you might remember that a cyclone picks up Dorothy's house and takes her to Oz.

So, before we look at the ending from "The Wizard of Oz," let's just go through a quick plot summary, so we can understand how the ending relates to the rest of the story.

So, the first thing that happens is a cyclone blows Dorothy and her house to Oz.

She's also accompanied by her dog, Toto.

Now, when they get to Oz, Dorothy's house lands on the Wicked Witch of the East and kills her.

Now, this is witnessed by the munchkins and they celebrate because the Wicked Witch of the East had kept them imprisoned.

Now, this is the moment that some of you might know if you watch the film, but the witch's feet are sticking out from underneath the house with their silver shoes on.

And Dorothy takes the silver shoes.

Now, I think this is one of the big deviations from the original story for the film, because in the original story, the shoes a silver, but the film changed 'em to red, so they'd be more visible on screen.

Now one of the people that Dorothy meets when she first arrives in Oz is a Good Witch.

And through her Dorothy learns she must travel, along the yellow brick road to the Emerald City to ask Oz to send her home to Kansas.

Now in a wave to the Emerald City, she meets three companions, the scarecrow, the Tin-man, and the lion.

Now, each of these companions also want to ask Oz for something.

They united in their quest to reach the city.

When they arrive, they have to put on goggles, because supposedly the colour of the city, would blind them otherwise, 'cause it's too bright.

And so everything they see is green.

The people, the clothes, the food, they each admitted into the throne and to visit Oz and he appears a different person to each of them.

For Dorothy, Oz appears the giant floating head and Oz tells Dorothy that he will help her if she kills the Wicked Witch of the West.

Now, Dorothy's very reluctant, but she desperately wants to go home and a companion say they'll help her.

So, Dorothy and her companions travel to find the Wicked Witch, but when they find her, the Wicked Witch manages to overpower all of them and she imprisons them.

She puts Dorothy to work as her maid and then one day the witch tries to steal Dorothy's silver shoes.

But Dorothy gets so cross that she throws a bucket of water over the Wicked Witch who then melts into a puddle.

So, Dorothy free the companions and they all trump back to Oz.

Unfortunately, Oz then confesses, he isn't actually a wizard at all, but he's an illusionist and he's tricked everyone into thinking he's a wizard.

The Emerald City isn't even green, it's just that the goggles he makes everyone put on as they enter, make everything look green.

So, Oz says he cannot send her home, but he tells her to go and visit Glinda, the Good Witch to see if she can help.

So, Dorothy and companions visit Glinda, the Good Witch.

So, now we're going to read an extract from the story together.

You'll find the extract in the additional materials.

We're going to use our first read through to establish information about the plot and the characters.

In this extract, Dorothy has travelled to visit Glinda, the Good Witch, to ask her whether she can send her home to Kansas.

So, let's begin the extract.

Dorothy told the witch all her story, how the cyclone had brought her to the land of Oz, how she met her companions and of the wonderful adventures they'd met with.

My greatest wish now she added is to get back to Kansas.

For Aunt Em will surely think, something dreadful happened to me and that will make her put on mourning.

And unless the crops are better this year than they were last, I'm sure Uncle Henry cannot afford it.

Glinda leaned forward and kissed the sweet upturned face of the loving little girl.

"Bless your dear heart," she said, "I'm sure I can tell you of a way to get back to Kansas." Then she added, "But if I do, "you must give me the golden cap." Now, the golden cap is something that Dorothy took from the Wicked Witch of the West, after she killed her.

Essentially, the golden cap allows you to command the winged monkeys.

Now for a quick check for understanding, what I'd like to do is someone with the following statement is true or false.

Is it true or false, that Dorothy wants to return to Kansas? So, pause the video and make a selection now.

The correct answer is true, she does want to return to Kansas.

Now, I'd like to justify that answer.

So, does she call it A, her greatest wish or B, her biggest wish? So pause the video and make a selection now.

The correct answer is A, she calls it her greatest wish.

So, very well done if you got that right.

So, let's continue with the extract.

The scarecrow and the Tin Woodman and the lion, now thanked the good witch earnestly for our kindness.

And Dorothy exclaimed, you are certainly as good as you are beautiful, but you have not yet told me how to get back to Kansas.

"Your silver shoes will carry you over the desert," replied, Glinda.

If you had known their power, you could have gone back to your Aunt Em the very first day you came to the country.

Now, I have two questions I'd like you to discuss.

Number one, why does Dorothy want to get back to Kansas? And number two, what can Dorothy use to get back to Kansas? So, pause the video and take a few moments to consider.

Amazing, some great ideas there.

You might have said that she wants to get back to her Aunt Em because she's afraid that she'll be worried about her.

Since she can also use the silver shoe, she took from the Wicked Witch of the East at the beginning.

Now the shoes are magic, another power to transport her back to Kansas in an instant.

So, Dorothy had the means of going home all along, she just didn't realise it.

So, now each of the companions thinks about what would've happened if they had not gone on this adventure with Dorothy, if she'd gone back to Kansas, right at beginning of the story.

"But then I should not have had my wonderful brains," cried the scarecrow.

I might have passed my whole life in a farmer's cornfield.

"And I should not have had my lovely heart," said the Tin Woodman.

I might have stood and rusted in the forest, till the end of the world and I should have lived a coward forever declared the lion.

And no beast in the forest, would've had good word to say about me.

So, what had I could think about is what did each of Dorothy's companions gain from their adventures together? So, pause the video, take a few moments to consider.

Amazing, some great ideas there.

Now, when she met each of them, each of her companions told her what they wanted to ask Oz for.

The scarecrow thought that, because his head was full of straw, that everyone would think he was a fool.

So, he wanted to ask for brains.

The Tin-man's heart had been turned to tin and he was worried he couldn't love anymore.

So, he wanted to ask for heart.

And the lion was scared every time he ran into danger.

He was very ashamed of this, so he wanted to ask for courage.

By the end of the story then the scarecrow has gained his brains.

The Tin-man has gained his heart and the lion has gained his courage.

"This is all true," said Dorothy.

And I'm glad I was of use to these good friends.

But now that each of them has had what he most desired and each is happy in having a kingdom to rule the sides, I think I should like to go back to Kansas.

"The silver shoes," said The Good Witch, "have wonderful powers." And one of the most curious things about them is they can carry you to any place in the world is three steps.

And each step we made in the wink of an eye.

All you have to do is knock the heels together three times and command the shoes to carry you wherever you wish to go.

Now, what I'd like to think about now is what are Dorothy's companions going to do when she's gone? So, pause the video, take a few moments to consider.

Amazing, some great thoughts there.

Now, each of the companions is going to rule over his own kingdom.

The scare is going to go back and rule over the Emerald city, now that the Oz is left.

The Tin-man is going to go and rule over the winkys and the lion is going to go and rule over a forest and be the king of the beast.

"If that is so," said the child joyfully, "I'll ask him to carry him back to Kansas at once." She threw her arms around the lion's neck and kissed him, patting his big head tenderly, then she kissed the Tin-wood Man who was weeping in away most dangerous to his joints, but she hugged the soft stuffed body of the scarecrow in her arms, instead of kissing his painted face.

She found she was crying herself with a sorrowful parting from a loving comrades.

Now, what I'd like to think about here is how does Dorothy feel about leaving her comrades? So pause the video, take a few moments to consider.

Amazing.

Now, they might have said that we can tell from her tears and her acts of physical affection that Dorothy feels sad to be leaving them.

Dorothy now took toto up solemnly her arms, having said one last goodbye, she clapped the heels of her shoes together three times saying, take me home to Aunt Em.

Instantly she was whirling through the air, so swiftly that all she could see or feel was the wind whistling past her ears.

The silver shoes took her three steps and then she stepped so suddenly, she was rolled over upon the grass several times, before she knew where she was.

Now, what I'd like you to think about here is what did Dorothy have to do to get the silver shoes take her home? So, pause the video, take a few moments to consider.

Amazing, some great thoughts there.

Now, I think this is perhaps one of the most well-known moments from "The Wizard Oz." In the film, Dorothy taps her heels together three times and says there's no place like home three times.

In the book though, she still taps her heels together three times.

But she asked if she asks her shoes to take her home to Aunt Em.

At length however, she sat up and looked about her, "Good gracious," she cried, for she was sitting on the broad Kansas prairie and just before her was the new farmhouse Uncle Henry built, after the cyclone had carried away the old one.

Uncle Henry was milking the cows in the barnyard and Toto had jumped out of her arms, was running toward the barn, barking furiously.

Dorothy stood up and found she was in her stocking feet for the silver shoes has fallen off in her flight through the air and were lost forever in the desert.

So, now Dorothy's back home in Kansas.

And because the silver shoes are lost forever, she now has no way to return to Oz even if she wanted to.

Now, for a quick check for understanding, what I'd like to do is tell me whether the following statement is true or false.

So, it true or false, that Dorothy had the means travel home all along? So, pause the video and make a selection now.

The correct answer is true.

She did have the means travel home all along.

Now, I'd like to justify that answer.

So, could she have got home because A, she had the Wicked Witch of the East silver shoes, or B, she had the Wicked Witch of East's ruby shoes? So, pause the video and make a selection now.

The correct answer is A, she had the Wicked Witch of the East's silver shoes, because in the book the shoes are silver, in the film though they're turned into red shoes.

So, very well done if you got that right.

Amazing work everyone.

We're now the first task lesson.

Now, in reading an extract for the first time, we want to think about the tone of the text.

Now, tone is one of our key words.

That means the overall mood or attitude of a text and writers can influence the tone, through their word choices and their use of literary devices.

Now, to think about the tone, what I'd like to do is answer the following two questions and use quotations from the text as evidence to support answers.

So question one, how does Dorothy feel about leaving Oz? And question two, how does Dorothy feel about returning to Kansas? So, pause the video, take a few minutes to answer this questions.

Welcome back everyone.

It was great to see people reading back through the extract to select the best quotations to use as evidence.

They might have said for question one, how does Dorothy feel about leaving Oz? They might have said, we can infer, so we can make a guess based on the evidence, that Dorothy feels sad about leaving her companions.

Since Baum uses semantic field of grief, through words such as weakening, crying, and sorrowful.

Question two, how does Dorothy feel about returning to Kansas? And you might have said, that despite her sadness leaving her companions, we can infer or make a guess that Dorothy feels happy about returning to Kansas.

So, she calls her greatest wish and these are the superlative greatest, just it's the most important thing to her.

Fantastic work everyone.

When now our second learning cycle, we're going to consider what the theme or message is from the ending of "The Wizard of Oz." So, now that we've established the information about the plot and the characters from the ending of "The Wizard of Oz," we're going to consider what the theme of the story might be.

It's what the message of the story might be.

Often the writer wants to teach us or tell us something through their writing, such as a moral or a life lesson.

Now, what I'd like to think about is why might writers put their messages in stories, rather than just telling us what they want us to know? So pause the video, take a few minutes to consider.

Amazing, some fantastic ideas there.

And you might have thought if we read the story and see the mess for ourselves, then we'll have truly understood it, rather than simply listening to it.

Sometimes it's not as easy as someone simply telling you something.

You might remember that information, but you might not truly have comprehended or understood it.

If you have read it in a story and see the experiences of different characters and understand how they're feeling, then perhaps the fact you have to work out the message, based on the events and language within a text.

It might make it easy for you to understand the message, because you can see the human emotion and actions behind it.

So, before we think of the message, let's just remind ourselves what each of the characters wants from Oz.

So, Dorothy wants to return to Kansas.

The scarecrow wants brains, 'cause he doesn't want everyone to think he's a fool.

The Tin-man wants a heart, 'cause his heart had been turned to tin.

He didn't think he could love anymore and the lion wants courage because he's got scared every time there's a dangerous situation.

He was shamed because lions are meant to be brave.

Now, when the characters finally meet Oz, he does the following for each of them.

So, Dorothy wants to return to Kansas Now, Oz says he can't simply transport her back to Kansas, offers her a ride in his hot air balloon.

However, Dorothy can't find Toto and instead of waiting for her, Oz flies away in the hot air balloon without her.

Now, the scarecrow wants brains, but instead of giving him brains, Oz re-stuffed the scarecrow's head with pins and needles, rather than straw.

The Tin-man want a heart, but rather than giving him a real heart, Oz put in a heart made of silk and sawdust.

The lion wanted courage, but instead of giving him courage, Oz gave the line a potion to drink instead.

So, you might notice here then that Oz hasn't actually done what the characters have asked for.

He's almost given them a placebo by doing something like re-stuffing the scarecrows head with pins and needles, but he hasn't given him a brain.

Similarly, he's technically given the Tin-man a heart, but is a heart made of silk and sawdust, rather than a real heart.

So, these gestures are all symbolic rather than real.

But we have to do is think about what they might symbolise.

Now for a quick check for understanding, what I'd like you to do is tell whether the following statement is true or false.

So, it true or false that Oz gave the Tin-man a symbolic heart.

So, pause the video, take a few moments to consider.

The correct answer is true.

Now, I'd like to justify that.

So, did you give him A, a heart made of tin or B, a heart made of silk and sawdust? So, pause the video and make a selection now.

The great answer is B, he gave my heart of silk and sawdust.

So, very well done if you got that right.

Amazing work everyone, went outta the final task of the lesson.

But we're going to bring together everything we've learned so far.

Now, if remember from the first learning cycle, each of the characters gets what they want.

The scarecrow says he got his brains.

The Tin-man says he got his heart and the lion says he got his courage.

So, we know that each of the characters, do achieve their wishes.

However, it's not who helps them because as we said, he doesn't actually give them anything real, only something symbolic.

Now, at the end of the story, rather than Oz helping them, Dorothy says, I am glad I was of use to these good friends.

And she also had had the means of returning to Kansas, all along with the silver shoes.

So, each of the characters got what they desired, through their journey together.

Now, what I'd like to think about is what can you infer about the theme or the message of the story based on this information? So, what guesses can you make about the message, based on the evidence we have? What do you think Dorothy's learned, during exploration of the unknown? What new knowledge might she have gained? So, pause the video, take a few minutes to discuss.

Welcome back everyone, some fantastic ideas there on the importance of friendship and believing in yourself.

Now, I'd like you to reflect on your ideas and consider which idea from the oat characters you agree with more.

So, Laura thought that the theme is that we all have what we need in side of us, we just need to realise it.

So, Laura read the story and thought that the scarecrow, for example, actually had brains all along, but it took him leaving his field and going on an adventure to realise that actually no one thinks he's a fool and he is intelligent.

Izzy, however, thought the theme was that having friends help us to learn about ourselves.

So, Izzy read the story and thought that, because each of the companions met and helped each other, they're able to see themselves in a different light and see for example in the lion's case, that everyone gets scared sometimes.

And being scared doesn't mean you don't have courage.

In fact, facing a situation, even though you are scared, actually takes a great deal of courage.

Now, in order to help you through reflection, you might use the following prompts.

So, you might say, "I agree with because," so you'd say whether you agree with Laura or Izzy and then give your reasoning.

Or like Jacob, you might say that while they both have good ideas, I actually don't agree with either because.

Remember that Baum doesn't actually tell us what the message is.

So, we are making a guess based on the information we have.

So, there's no right answer and we can all interpret a text in different way.

So, pause the video and have your reflections now.

Amazing everyone.

It was great to see people really thinking about what they might have learned through the story and really being respectful of other people's different ideas.

You all did amazingly well today everyone.

Here's a summary of what we covered.

Though sad to leave her companions, Dorothy was glad to return to Kansas.

A theme of a story is a central topic, subject or message within a narrative.

Baum used Dorothy's time in the unknown to convey a message to the reader.

And that message is arguably that we have the tools to help ourselves and we don't need to rely on others.

I really hope you enjoyed the lesson everyone.

Goodbye.