Lesson video

Now, our learning objective for today is to plan and write an essay about mediaeval monarchs.

Now, in this lesson, you will be using all of the key information that you've learned over the last six lessons.

And you'll be writing all of that information in an essay.

We're going to use this lesson to plan and write that essay.

So we'll be recapping on our knowledge organiser.

We'll be thinking about, what is an essay? Then we're going to focus on planning paragraphs one, two, and three.

And then we're going to write.

Here's our knowledge organiser again.

Now in this lesson, I haven't focused on any one piece of information because we're going to be using lots of the pieces of information.

You can pause the video if you want to have a quick look and scan over that knowledge organiser.

Excellent work.

So you might be asking, what is an essay? Well, an essay is a piece of writing that focuses on a particular subject, and it could be any subject.

For example, the essay might be about sharks.

It might be about World War One or the Amazon Rainforest.

Or, in this case, mediaeval monarchs.

Now, here's an image of an essay or an extract of an essay that was written about mediaeval monarchs.

You can see that there are two separate paragraphs pictured here, and that's because each paragraph focuses on a different piece of information, or a theme.

And that's what we're going to be doing in our writing today.

We're going to be making sure that each paragraph represents the learning from each lesson.

When we finish writing our essay, we'll have an overview of all the information that we've learned so that you can show off about who you think is greatest monarch.

The first thing that I want you to do is draw a table.

Now let's have a closer look at this table.

This is our planning table.

And you can see that there are three columns, column one, two, and three.

The first column is where we write which paragraph we're focusing on.

And I've included the lesson titles to jog our memories about what key information we're going to be writing.

In this column, we're going to be writing the key information relevant to each lesson.

In this column, we're writing the key vocabulary relevant to each lesson.

I want to show you how you can lay this out in your own book.

I've use my own book to draw my own columns.

Have a look here.

I've used the whole page to make sure I'm giving myself enough space.

I'd like you to make sure that you've included three columns, that equals one column for key information, and that should be the largest column.

And that each row is about eight to 10 lines, to give you enough space to write in.

Pause the video now so that you can draw your own table in your own book.

Okay, great work, everyone.

Now that you've drawn your table, we're ready to start planning.

Okay, so you can stay on this slide.

We're focusing on paragraph one.

Now, paragraph one is all about the information that we learned in our first lesson.

Do you remember? It was about the Battle of Hastings in 1066.

And the question was, who was the rightful heir to the throne in 1066? Let's have a closer look at some of the things that I've included to help you in your writing today.

Now, you can see in the key information section I've used some of the images from the lesson to help jog your memory.

But the key thing that we're going to do before we look at those images is we're going to record the key vocabulary.

I'm going to show you exactly how I want you to record this key vocabulary in your own books.

I want you to rub your hands together and I want you to help me flick from this slide to my own book, are you ready? Rub your hands together.

Let's get going, keep rubbing.

Keep rubbing.

And, clap! Ah, excellent work, everyone.

Thanks for helping me out.

Okay, this is how I'd like you to lay out or write the key vocabulary in your own books.

So just like me, you'll have the key vocabulary on the screen in front of you, and you'll be writing all of this out.

So I'm going to write, in my neatest handwriting of course, claim.

Invaded.

Successor.

Make sure you spell these words correctly they're on the screen in front of you to help you.

Defeated.

Conquer.

Edward the Confessor.

Battle.

Monarch.

Harold Godwinson.

That one was a bit of a squeeze, that's okay.

Harold Hardrada.

Remember, that's spelled differently.

So you have to look closely.

Hardrada.

William the First.

And finally, the Battle of Hastings, 1066.

Excellent.

Can you help me clap and get back to my other screen again? Are you ready? One, two, three,.

Excellent work, you helped me get back to the screen.

I'd like you to pause the video now so that you can record all of that key vocabulary into your own book.

Great work, everyone.

Now that you've recorded that key vocabulary, let's have a closer look at the images so we'll know how they help us.

You can see on this slide, there are one, two, three images.

Now these are all portraits or weavings from the time.

Now I remember that this image is an image of Edward the Confessor.

Now I remember that Edward the Confessor was important because he was king and he didn't have any children because he took a vow of chastity.

Now here we have portraits of Harold Godwinson, William the First and Harold Hardrada, and they were the three claimants.

They were three men who thought that they had a claim to the throne.

Finally, is the weaving, the tapestry, or an extract of it, of the Battle of Hastings that happened in 1066.

And do you remember that William the First defeated Harold Godwinson, and he became king? The king of England, or better known as William the Conqueror.

I'm going to show you exactly how I want you to use these images to write notes in the key information section.

Are you ready to rub your hands together and help me get to the other screen? Let's go.

One, two, three.

Wow! You did it again.

You helped me get back to my book.

Okay, I can see the images in front of me on the screen, and I'm going to use them to help me to record some notes about this section or paragraph.

Okay, so I can see that the first image is of Edward the Confessor.

So I'm going to write, again, in my neatest handwriting, Edward the Confessor.

And I know that he was important because he had no heir.

You could even write in brackets, vow of chastity.

That's why he had no children, he was very religious.

The next image is if the three claimants.

So I'm going to write that here, three claimants, with a coda.

I'm going to write the bullet points of who those three claimants were, just to remind myself.

And I can look at the key vocabulary section if I'm not sure how to spell their names.

Harold Godwinson.

Harold Godwinson.

William the First.

And Harold Hardrada.

Harold Hardrada.

And I even remember where these three men were from, so I'm going to put that in brackets.

Harold Godwinson was from England.

William the First was from Normandy, in France.

And Harold Hardrada was from Norway.

Now the last image on my screen is an image of the Battle of Hastings.

So I can write, the Battle of Hastings, comma, 1066.

And I'm going to write William the First in brackets, because I need to remember that he was the person who defeated Harold Godwinson.

So there you can see, I've used all of the information or all the pictures to help me to record all of the key pieces of information about this lesson.

I've also tried to use some of the key vocabulary here to help me.

That's go back to the other screen.

Are you ready to clap? Let' rub our hands together.

One, two, three.

Wow, excellent work, everyone.

Thanks for helping.

I'd like you to pause the video now so that you can use the images and the key vocabulary to record the key information.

Don't worry if you're not quite sure, because I'm going to show you a filled-in version of this table when you've had to go yourself, just in case you've missed anything.

Pause the video so that you can complete that task.

Great work, everyone.

Let's have a look at the next slide just in case you missed any of that information.

Great work, everyone.

Let's have a look at the next slide, just in case you missed any of that information.

Great work, everyone.

Let's have a look at the next slide, just in case you missed out any information and want to fill it in.

Pause the video now so that you can fill in any information that you missed.

Great work, everyone.

Let's move on to the next paragraph.

Are you ready? So here's the next paragraph.

And this paragraph is all about the second lesson.

Do you remember in the second lesson, we asked the question, who was responsible for the death of Thomas Beckett? Let's have a closer look at some of these images.

Now, you can see on this slide that we have an image of Henry the Second and Thomas Beckett.

I'm reminded that it's Henry the Second and Thomas Beckett because I can see their names in the key vocabulary section.

Talking of key vocabulary, before we continue to talk about the images, I want you to record all of the key vocabulary into your book, just like we did before.

I'm not going to show you how to do it this time because I think you know.

Pause the video now so that you can record the key vocabulary into your own book.

Great work, everyone.

Now that you've recorded that key vocabulary, let's have a look at the images.

So I said before that this was Henry the Second and Thomas Beckett.

Do you remember that Henry the Second gave Thomas Beckett a job, the Archbishop of Canterbury? Before that, he was a member of the clergy, someone who worked in the church.

Do you remember that Thomas Beckett and Henry the Second fell out? Do you remember why they fell out? Try and use some of the key vocabulary.

That's right, because Thomas Beckett took a false oath.

He promised to change the ecclesiastical court to make it fairer, but he didn't.

What does this picture show us? This image, you're right, shows us an image of Thomas Becket being murdered at Canterbury Cathedral by those four knights.

I would like you to pause the video now so that you can write the key information from this lesson into that little box, explaining what these pictures show.

Try to use some of the key vocabulary.

If you're not sure, don't worry, because I'll give you a chance to look at my competed table afterwards.

Pause the video now and complete that task.

Good work, everyone.

Let's move on.

Now that you've completed paragraph one and paragraph two, you can check the information in paragraph two on this slide.

Pause the video so that you can record any information that you missed.

Great work, everyone.

Let's move on to the last paragraph for today, paragraph three.

Now, paragraph three was all about who was the worst king.

Was it Richard the First or was it John? Do you remember, they were brothers? Now, the first thing we're going to do, of course, is we're going to record the key vocabulary because this will help you when planning the key information.

Pause the video now so you that can record the key vocabulary on your own piece of paper or in your own book.

Now that you've recorded all of that key information, let's take a closer look at some of these images.

Now, we know that this lesson was all about Richard the First and John.

Now, these images on the left relate to Richard the First.

Do you remember that he travelled as part of the Third Crusade to the Holy Land with King Phillip the Second? Do you remember, we said that they were travelling in these very fancy boxes above all of their men? And they were fighting against Sultan Saladin.

Do you remember that he was the Muslim leader? And do you remember that Richard the First ordered that 3,000 Muslims were beheaded? This image down here shows us that Richard the First also persecuted Jewish people.

He treated them differently.

Now all of this information over here is about John.

That's how I can see there's some more vocabulary that relates to Richard.

Now, do you remember that he was held ransom by King Henry the Sixth of Germany? And his mother bailed him out.

She raised the money by raising taxes in England.

Let's think about the pictures that relate to John.

Now, John was called Bad King John, that was his nickname.

And these pictures will help us recall why that was.

Now, he seized the throne from his brother, spent lots of money buying expensive jewellery and clothes.

He was excommunicated by the pope.

after having an argument with him.

He lost lots of territory in France.

And he raised taxes without asking the barons.

I can see the word Magna Carta down here.

Do you remember that was the special document that John had to sign to say that he would treat the barons and the people of England more fairly? Use the key vocabulary and the images to record the key information.

Pause the video now.

Excellent work, everyone.

I'm going to show you the next slide so that in case you've missed any of the information, you can fill it in.

Have a closer look and pause the video now so you can fill in any information that you missed.

On this slide, you can see the completed table.

It's got all of the information in it that we spent the beginning of this lesson recording.

Just have a quick scan over your own table and make sure you haven't missed anything out.

Pause the video so you can do that.

Okay, everyone.

Now we've got all of our key information and our key vocabulary recorded on our planning table, we're ready to start thinking about writing.

Now, the first thing we have to do when we think about writing is we have to think about how are we going to structure our essay? What order are we going to write the key information in? And I've got something that I think will help you to do that.

Here on this slide, you can see a structure strip.

Now, a structure strip helps you to organise your thoughts and it asks key questions that you can answer while you're writing.

And I'm going to show you how to do that.

Let's have a read of the key questions for each paragraph.

Paragraph one, why were there three claimants to the to the English throne after Edward the Confessor died? Who were the claimants? Who won the Battle of Hastings? Paragraph two, what job did Henry the second give to Thomas Beckett? Who had more power, the church or the king? Why did Henry the Second exile Thomas Beckett? What happened to Thomas Beckett? Paragraph three, what was Richard the First famous for? What crusade did he take part in? What was King John famous for? Why is he known as Bad King John? Now of course, you might want to write about some other things that aren't included in this structure strip, and that's absolutely fine.

This structure strip is to help you organise your thoughts and organise your paragraphs.

That's why it's called a structure strip.

Now, the first thing we need to do before we write our first paragraph is we have to write an introduction.

You might be wondering what an introduction is.

Well, an introduction is the first paragraph you write when you write an essay.

And it tells your reader everything that's going to be included in your essay.

It gives them an overview of what the essay is going to be about.

Now, to help you out, I've thought of three different introductions that you could start your essay with, and I'm going to show you them now.

We're going to read them together.

Battles, murders, and feuds between families.

This essay aims to give you an overview of some of the most powerful mediaeval monarchs between 1066 and 1603.

Who will reign as the greatest mediaeval monarch? B, this essay is to outline some of the most powerful mediaeval monarchs between 1066 to 1603, describing some of their greatest achievements and biggest failings.

C, the mediaeval period in England was a turbulent time and each new monarch wanted to ensure they left their mark.

Read on and learn all about the greatest monarchs from 1066 to 1603.

I'm going to show you how I want you to start your essay.

It needs to have a title and you need to have chosen one of these introductory paragraphs.

I want you to help me get back to my page.

Rub your hands together.

Are you ready? One, two, three, four, five, clap! Wow, good work, everyone.

Thanks so much.

Okay the first thing we need to do when we're writing our essay is to write the title.

Now, our title is going to be Mediaeval Monarchs.

I'm going to write that at the top of my page.

Now, if you've got your ruler at hand, you can also underline that.

I don't have my ruler at hand, so I'm going to carry on.

Now, the next thing that I need to do is I need to choose one of the introductory paragraphs, because I need to make sure that I start with a good introduction.

Now, I'm going to choose Introduction B.

So I'm going to leave a line and I'm going to start writing.

This essay aims to outline some of the most powerful mediaeval monarchs between 1066 and 1603, describing some of their greatest achievements and biggest failings.

I've written my introductory paragraph.

Can you help me get back to the other screen? Are you ready to rub your hands together, count to five and clap? Let's good.

One, two, three, four, five! Wow, excellent work, everyone.

Thanks so much for your help.

Now I'd like you to pause the video.

But before you do that, remember, when you start your essay you need to have a title.

I've chosen Mediaeval Monarchs.

You could choose something more interesting if you'd like to, or something different.

And I'd like you to choose one of the three introductory paragraphs that I've written.

If you want a challenge, you could write your own introductory paragraph based on the ones I've written.

Pause the video now and write your title and your introductory paragraph.

Great work, everyone.

I'm really excited to see some of your essays and see some of the introductions that you chose and some of the interesting titles that you've chosen as well.

Let's move on.

So, our steps to success.

Now, our steps to success are the things we think about to make sure that we can be successful in our writing.

Let's have a look at some of the steps to success in this lesson.

Number one, write in full sentences.

Two, include key information and key vocabulary.

Now remember, you'll be using your plans to do that.

I've got mine right here and you should have yours as well.

Number three, leave a line between each paragraph.

I'm going to show you what this looks like.

Number four, imagine you're explaining this topic to someone who has never learned about it before.

So you have to remember, you're the master or mediaeval monarchs now and you are using your essay to teach everyone else who doesn't know about mediaeval monarchs.

Now I've gone through the steps to success with you, I'm going to show you how to use your plan to write your essay.

We're starting with the first paragraph.

Can you help me get back to my page? Rub your hands together.

We'll do the countdown, five, four, three, two, one.

So I've got my plan right here.

I'm going to fold over the page so I can have it at the top when I'm writing.

This will help me to make sure that I don't miss out any details.

Now, remember I said, we need to make sure we skip a line between each paragraph? Well, this is my introduction, so I need to make sure I'm skipping a line underneath it.

Now, the first question on the structure strip is why were there three claimants to the English throne after Edward the Confessor died? Well, I know that Edward the Confessor had no heir because he took a vow of chastity, so he had no children.

So I'm going to start this paragraph with, Edward the Confessor took a vow of chastity, which meant he had no children or heir to the throne.

The second question says, who were the claimants? Now I know from my plan there were three claimants, Harold Godwinson, William the First, and Harold Hardrada.

So I'm going to write, there were three men who all believed they had a claim to the throne.

I'm going to use a coda to list them.

Harold Godwinson, from England.

William the First, from Normandy.

And Harold Hardrada, I needed to look at the spelling to make sure I remember how to spell their names.

From Norway.

Full stop.

The third question on the structure strip says, "Who won the battle of Hastings?" Well, I can remember to look at my plan here and I can see it says, "William the First won the Battle of Hastings." I remember they called him William the Conqueror.

So I'm going to include that in my essay.

So I'm going to write that William the first's army fought Harold Godwinson's army in the Battle of Hastings.

It's very important to include the date.

1066.

You could even write, "In 1066," that's better.

William the First's army fought Harold Godwinson's army in the Battle of Hastings in 1066.

William defeated Harold, full stop.

He became the King of England and was known as William the Conqueror.

You can see the I've used my plan to turn the notes into full sentences.

I've tried to include some of the key vocabulary, but I haven't used it all.

I wonder if you can use more of the key vocabulary than I used in my own first paragraph.

Now, let's get back to our screen.

Can you help me by rubbing your hands together? Should we go together? One, two, three, four, five.

Amazing work, everyone.

We're back to our steps to success.

Have another read of them so that you're really clear on what you need to do.

So now you've seen me do it.

You've seen me use my plan, you've seen me use the structure strip, and you've seen me use that key vocabulary and key information.

Don't forget to do all of those things on the steps to success.

You have a separate slide where you can look at all of this information again, just in case you forget.

You've got your structure strip on there, the filled-in table, and the steps to success.

I'm really excited to see some of the work that you create.

Now, if you'd like to share some of your work, then you can do so by using this hashtag.

You can hashtag via Twitter, LearnWithOak.

Make sure that your parents are doing it for you and that they take a picture and they're uploading it.

I'd love to see the first half of your essay.

I wonder how many of you out there are going to use a different title to me, or perhaps even a different introduction.

It's been great learning with you today.

In our next lesson, we'll be completing our planning, and writing this essay on mediaeval monarchs.

Thanks so much everyone.

See you next time.