• Explore how stories are connected, including things that become important later. 
• Discuss humour in a screen story, relating jokes to the audiences’ experience.  
• Create solutions to a challenge in a story, some that fail and others that succeed. 

Review Thalu episode 2, ‘Man up a Tree’. 

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Stories can take us on a journey, using many elements that work together. Often, parts of the story are connected, so a small mention in the beginning (foreshadowing) might end up being an important hint for the story later on.    

• What did you notice about how the visit to the man in the box set up the whole episode? 
• What did you find funny in this episode? Why are jokes good to have in a story? 
• Keile had a sore foot in the beginning of the episode, which  end resulted in an important discovery at the end of the episode. How might you include a hint at the beginning of a story that becomes important later? 

When characters are working together on a mission, everything is possible and anything could happen! We are entertained when characters are met with challenges. Sometimes a goal isn’t easy to achieve, but we know that with determination, characters can often succeed in the end. 

The man in the tree feared the horse and couldn’t get down, so the group tried many ways to help him. Discuss the failed attempts to move the horse from list below, then imagine you are in the story.Document a failed attempt and a successful attempt to get the horse to move away from the tree.