Day 1 - 28 February non-fiction PowerPoint

Approach unseen non-fictions text

1. Approaching unseen non-fiction texts – Journey to the Source of the Nile - Christopher Ondaatje Use this video link: English https://classroom.thenational.academy/lessons/what-is-memoir-writing-cngk4e?utm_campaign=sharing-button&activities=video&utm_medium=copy-link&schoolUrn=135070

2. Summarise main events Thoughts and feelings presented What is the writer’s perspective Writer’s methods ‘Big Picture’ ideas – 4 conflicts 2

3. Lake Victoria - East Africa Image taken from Pixabay What thoughts and feelings do you have when you look at this image? 3

4. Image taken from wikimedia.org - freeshare. Jean Louis - “African People at Work” October 2017 What thoughts and feelings do you have now? 4

5. Journey to the Source of the Nile - Christopher Ondaatje - 1998 Christopher Ondaatje is a Canadian-English businessman and adventurer (and a bob-sledding Olympian for Canada). In this book he goes on a journey to trace the source of the Nile, the longest river in the world, in a bid to trace the origins of mankind. 5

6. Reading for meaning The extract has been split into 3 sections. Prompt questions are provided to help you activate your ideas. Record your responses on lined paper. You will also need a different coloured pen / pencil to self-assess and check our progress! 6 Read the passage Answer the question – pause Resume the video and - review

7. Pause the video to complete your task Resume once you’re finished What do we learn first? Track the key events and reactions WHAT is happening? HOW does Ondaatje feel? Select evidence to support your ideas

8. 8 W hat is happening? How does Ondaatje feel? On his journey to the source of the Nile, Ondaatje crosses part of Lake Victoria Image taken from Pixabay Copyright Content has been removed from this slide to make this PowerPoint downloadable, please see the Oak lesson video for reference.

9. 9 W hat is happening? How does Ondaatje feel? Image taken from Pixabay Copyright Content has been removed from this slide to make this PowerPoint downloadable, please see the Oak lesson video for reference.

10. 10 W hat is happening? How does Ondaatje feel? Copyright Content has been removed from this slide to make this PowerPoint downloadable, please see the Oak lesson video for reference.

11. Pause the video to complete your task Resume once you’re finished

12. Review 12 Ondaatje is camping by the side of Lake Victoria. He is experiencing sights and sounds that he may never have done before and describes the location as “an idyllic spot.” He seems both exhilarated and in awe of his surroundings as he contemplates “the role this mighty lake had played in the great explorations of the past.” As an explorer on a ‘mission’, he feels a sense of being part of history.

13. Pause the video to refine your response Resume once you’re finished

14. Pause the video to complete your task Resume once you’re finished What do we learn next ? Track the events and link back WHAT is happening now? HOW does Ondaatje feel? Select evidence to support your ideas

15. 15 W hat is happening now? Similar / different feelings? Copyright Content has been removed from this slide to make this PowerPoint downloadable, please see the Oak lesson video for reference.

16. 16 W hat is happening now? Similar / different feelings? Copyright Content has been removed from this slide to make this PowerPoint downloadable, please see the Oak lesson video for reference.

17. 17 W hat is happening now? Similar / different feelings? Copyright Content has been removed from this slide to make this PowerPoint downloadable, please see the Oak lesson video for reference.

18. Pause the video to complete your task Resume once you’re finished

19. Review 19 There is a change in tone as Ondaatje leaves camping by the side of Lake Victoria and takes a ferry to the city of Mwanza. He is moving from a natural environment to a built-up one. He seems overwhelmed and anxious about the process: “the ferry was packed with buses, petrol tanks, vans, land cruisers, jeeps, fuel tankers, cars - and people.”

20. The listing used to describe his surroundings creates a feeling of claustrophobia. However, he is still in awe of the culture and the community as he stops to notice the vibrancy of their clothing, “they favoured brilliantly coloured clothing: shirts, T-shirts, dresses of red, violet, indigo, blue, green, yellow and orange.” Ondaatje himself, however, does seem to be out of place and struggling. Whereas before he described his location as “idyllic” , he now tells us it is “as hot as hell.” 20

21. Pause the video to refine your response Resume once you’re finished

22. Extending our thinking Big picture thinking – what does the text say about mankind / society? 22 www.google.co.uk/search?q=the+four+types+of+conflict&source

23. Pause the video to complete your task Resume once you’re finished How does the extract conclude ? Track the events and consider how the end of the extract concludes What is Ondaatje feeling now? What do you learn about human nature from the passage?

24. 24 How does Ondaatje feel? What do you learn - 4 conflicts Copyright Content has been removed from this slide to make this PowerPoint downloadable, please see the Oak lesson video for reference.

25. 25 How does Ondaatje feel? What do you learn - 4 conflicts Copyright Content has been removed from this slide to make this PowerPoint downloadable, please see the Oak lesson video for reference.

26. Pause the video to complete your task Resume once you’re finished

27. Review 27 As the extract comes to a close, we see Ondaatje travelling across the lake, experiencing the breeze in his face and wondering at how the “floating mass of metal and people” could stay afloat - but it does. Although he is still concerned about the apparent fragility of the craft, he seems to be able to take in his surroundings again and concentrates on the route the ferry is taking.

28. Ondaatje comments on the the crowd twice in this final extract: they are initially the “floating….mass” which is then echoed by the “teeming mass” at the end. This final image creates a feeling of circularity. As one crowd disembarks, another one starts their journey. Despite the obstacles that Ondaatje perceived, man does not acknowledge defeat; the ferry itself is a symbol of man’s ingenuity. 28

29. What was a position of vulnerability, as suggested by the verb “floating” is transformed by the word “teeming” which suggests an image of abundance and power. This final image seems to suggest man has conquered nature. However, it is interesting to note that earlier we were given the image of man and nature again, through the one detail Ondaatje points out to us, the “bevy of fishing boats.” Here, we again see man and nature, but through the use of the word “bevy” we are given an image of beauty and harmony rather than domination or conflict. 29

30. Pause the video to refine your response Resume once you’re finished

31. Thank you for your focus today.