Lesson video

Welcome to today's English lesson.

I'm Mrs Crompton.

Before we begin our learning, let's make sure we have everything we need.

You will need a pen and paper.

Take a moment to make sure you've cleared any distractions away and have everything you need at hand.

For today's session, I wanted to start with a little bit of thinking.

So, what I have provided you with are four big picture statements.

If you could take down the title, "Big Picture statements" on your piece of paper.

I'm going to read through each of these statements with you and what I would like you to do is to write down your response, jot down any notes, any of your own ideas in reaction to the statements.

You might want to pause because you like an idea and you want to get all of the information down, that's absolutely fine, as ever you're in charge, you pause me when you want to, you pause the screen, have a look, make sure that you're completely in control of your learning today.

Okay, let's begin.

The extract explores a man versus man conflict.

The slayers take on the vampire form of Lucy.

So, there I have used my first of the four types of conflict, man versus man.

The extract shows has a man versus society conflict.

Lucy doesn't conform to social expectations and therefore she must be slayed.

So, we have now got man versus society.

Lucy's character is shown as conflicted.

She wants to be with Arthur as his wife, but she's also now a vampiress.

She cannot choose between a Mary or Eve identity and I've not exactly used the phrasing of man versus self, but that's exactly what this conflict is and I hope you have noticed that I've also included some of our contextual learning from this week by bringing in this idea of the Mary Eve identity.

So, do think about that when you're responding, try and develop and expand and really activate everything that we've been looking at.

Finally, Lucy is presented as unhuman and therefore an aberration of nature and we've got the man versus nature conflict initiated here.

I think this statement is quite interesting because it needs further comment.

If she is unnatural, if she has gone against what we should be as a human being, what society wants us to be, I mean, that idea of society wants us to be.

It brings together a couple of the conflicts and I think this is where it's quite interesting because it's very rare that a text is just purely one conflict and you will find that some of these ideas you might blend together to get a really comprehensive response.

So, do think about that.

If Lucy is unnatural, who's made her unnatural? Who thinks she's unnatural? Where does that idea come from? Okay, purpose? Well, I want to get us thinking today, today's session, this evaluation session, absolutely hinges on the fact that your personal responses are confident and that supports it and you're willing to share what you think.

So, today's not going to be me telling you what to think.

I'm going to get you to think.

That's the purpose of today's lesson and so, as we work through, it's really important that you have that confidence in everything that we've been doing this week, that you try and draw upon previous learning from the sessions and that's why I wanted to just give you some examples of the type of thinking that you can achieve as we progress.

And what we're going to do is to work with this particular question.

It might be that you would like to pause the screen at this point and just jot down the question.

You are going to see it a couple of times, but it's always useful, isn't it? To actually have the question written down because we can then unpack some details.

So, I've just given you a little pause there, opportunity for you to grab that button, get me stopped and then we will have a look at the question together.

So, when I say it's useful for you to unpack some of the details, this is where you would have your highlighter out in the classroom, this is where I would say, which part are you underlining in my classroom and it's really important that we don't forget all those fantastic skills that we've got and what we know is good practise.

So, this part of the story where Lucy is forced back into her coffin by Van Helsing and his men, pens out, shows how men are always victorious.

That's the first thing we need to address in our answer, shows how men are always victorious, does it? That's what we're going to explore.

None of our sympathy is with Lucy is the second part of the question that we need to break down and respond to.

So, we've got two parts to the question and then it says, to what extent do you agree? And you have probably already got a few ideas buzzing around in your minds and that's what we're going to really work through, crystallise in terms of detail and make sure that we have got a very thorough plan in response to this question today.

So, to clarify, what do we need to do when we get an evaluative question? Let's have a look on the screen.

When we evaluate, we need to give our interpretation of the content, the what and our analysis of the methods, the how.

And when we talk about the methods that could arise from a particular piece of evidence that you selected, so a rich quotation could give you a method comment, when you talk about the connotation of a word or it could be that you're commenting on the way that the text has been structured.

Either of those, it's all methods, it's everything that the writer is doing to make you feel the way that you feel.

It could be characterization, that is also a method.

So, the first thing I would like us to do today is to draw the following shapes on a piece of paper.

This could be the most challenging part of our lesson today.

Let me explain how it needs to look.

So, this is a piece of paper landscape, okay? And the rectangle equals the outside edges of your piece of paper and I need you to draw me two ovals.

They do not have to be perfect.

Please do not worry about that.

Two ovals, not too small for the central one.

You need to be able to get some writing in there and I'm going to allow you to pause at this point.

I will see you in a moment.

I know you're now going to start drawing ovals, screen up bits of paper.

Don't be too fussy.

I'll see you very shortly.

So, how did that go? I am mentally visualising some very interesting shapes, but let's not worry about that.

It is very lucky that I am not an art teacher and my students would certainly say, Ms, you cannot draw.

So, I have no scope for any criticism of any ovals that are not quite perfect.

So, let's get back to English.

The outside edge, you can see, I have now coloured out in blue and in that part, what I want to gather are your first impressions and your personal response to the statement.

Now, you might already be starting to do that.

What I would say is, hold on until I have gone through all of the instructions, because it's the set up that's going to take while.

I'll go through each of the slides, but you could maybe just jot down first impressions, personal response at the corner of your page, so you know what goes in the blue section, okay? And so once you have done that, once we have actually got the first response to the overall statement, the second thing I would like you to do is then focus your attention on evidence, okay? So, in the larger ring, we're going to gather some evidence and we're going to be, again, systematic about this and we're going to aim for two to three linked quotations, absolutely crucial, isn't it? Those quotations need to be linked otherwise we're going to have a really desperate analysis, we're going to have evidence that we can't actually do anything with.

Two to three pieces of evidence.

Now, I want to say at this point, think about method as you're going along and also jot that down in this area.

So, it could be that one of the bits of evidence that you want to use is maybe a structural element that you think is really important in building up this idea.

Jot that down here too, okay? So, that could be part of your evidence chain.

So, we need two to three quotations in response to the idea that men are always victorious and two to three quotations in response to the idea that none of our sympathy is with Lucy.

So, that is roughly six pieces of evidence and you might want to separate your little doughnut shape there in half and have half on each side, okay? So, that would be the next step.

So, you might want to just jot down evidence two to three for each, make your initial notes, so that you know what you're doing with this section.

We've then worked our way right into the middle and we're going to go for our overview statement at this point.

Now, an overview statement is a really useful thing to offer in a piece of writing, particularly under examined conditions.

Examiners do like it because it tells them your big picture thinking, it gets everything out straight away.

So, our overview statement is going to be our final conclusion that we've come to when we've worked through the question and we have decided that to what extent parts her.

To what extent do you actually agree with the statement? And that's the first thing you're going to write into the pink section.

So, it's your final conclusion.

It might not quite be refined straight away, but you will be refining that sentence ideally.

The second thing I've actually put in there is to jot down any big picture ideas, if you've got a big picture idea that's also useful to put here and in terms of thinking about this for a final writeup of this essay, the big picture statement, the big picture ideas would form your conclusion, it's what you've worked to.

The overview statement would form your introduction.

So, can you see what we're doing? We're actually planning an essay and working our way through, but we have done it in a very particular way.

We've gone with personal response, the most crucial thing that we need, we to know what you think.

You're the most important person in this process, your ideas are the most important things in this whole process.

Then we go to, why do you think it? And that's your evidence and that's crucial too and then we can refine it and make sure we've got all of the pieces of information in the right order and we clarify that thinking by going back to our overview and big picture ideas.

So, what's going to happen now, hopefully you've got all of the different components clear and you know what's going to appear on your beautiful piece of paper with your perfect ovals.

Now you know what you're doing, I'm going to show you the extract again, okay? So, you can work through it slowly, start to gather the evidence, take your time over this activity.

I am expecting it to take you 20 minutes to really get a good piece of planning together and this planning is something that you're going to need for tomorrow session too, so it's absolutely crucial that we get that thinking going.

You might want to go back to some of the instructions, you might want to look at some of these slides, it's absolutely fine.

It is over to you, but coming up from here are the slides that show you the text again and I will be waiting for you at the other side with a final recap.

Welcome back everyone.

So, you have now responded to our question.

This part of the story where Lucy is forced back into her coffin by Van Helsing and his men, shows how men are always victorious.

None of our sympathy is with Lucy.

To what extent do you agree? So, so far we have looked at our personal response to the statement, men are always victorious and we've got that in the blue section.

You then selected your rich evidence and also considered other methods in the gold section and I'm elevating that to gold, it's not yellow and then in the pink section, we have clarified our thinking to generate an overview statement for our introduction and then we have pulled out any big picture ideas that we would want to use in our conclusion.

So, that's what you have achieved already today.

What I would like you to do is to look over this, make sure you're absolutely happy with everything that you have put together as your plan and I would like you to bring this planning to tomorrow's session, to our next learning session together, okay? To finish the learning for today, you have a recap quiz to complete.

All that remains for me to say is thank you for your focus and enjoy the rest of your learning today.