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The Chronicles of Narnia
C.S. Lewis' The Chronicles of Narnia is about far more than the adventures of a group of children in an imaginary kingdom. Find out what else it's about in a short Great American Read video.
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One Hundred Years of Solitude | The Great American Read
One Hundred Years of Solitude introduces readers to magic realism. Told in a series of flashbacks and flash-forwards, Gabriel Garcia Marquez's Nobel Prize-winning novel is a candidate for The Great American Read program and aficionados...
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The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
Douglas Adams' hysterical send-up of bureaucratic thinking, The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, is the focus of a Great American Read video that urges viewers to vote for one of the greatest satires since Gulliver's Travels.
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A Confederacy of Dunces by John Kennedy Toole
Rather than windmills, Ignatius J. Reilly, the hero of John Kennedy Toole's Pulitzer Prize-winning A Confederacy of Dunces, battles against modernity. Find out why Professor Walter Isaacson thinks Toole's novel should get viewers' votes...
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Ready Player One
Ready Player One has been praised as a novel that captures the vitality, the allure, and the essence of the virtual reality experience. Speakers in a short video share their rationale for why Ernest Clines' dystopian novel should be...
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1984 by George Orwell
Reverend Katrina Foster offers her rationale for why Winston Smith, the tragic hero of George Orwell's dystopian novel 1984, is her favorite literary character.
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The Call of the Wild
Jack London's books feature male characters, but that doesn't mean they're just for boys! Chelsea Clinton and Shanna Peeples discuss the underlying messages of love and sacrifice in The Call of the Wild, as well as the conflict of man...
Curated OER
Mysteries of Vernacular: Yankee
An American? Someone from New England? Anyone who lives north of the Mason-Dixon line? A New York baseball player? A dandy? A short video doodles around with the etymology of all an American word and how its meaning has evolved from 1601...
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Mysteries of Vernacular: Odd
Odd, isn’t it, that even when you think you know how to match a word with its definition, you learn that some meanings are at odds with others, that some subject fields devise interpretations that don’t correspond with others, and that...
Sophia Learning
Sophia: Commonly Confused Words
This lesson focuses on a list of commonly confuses words such as as/like, less/fewer, further/farther, than/then, that/which, amount/number, etc. It explains the differences in the meanings of the words and how to use them correctly....
Sophia Learning
Sophia: Synonyms
This screencast defines synonyms, explains their importance, and demonstrates how to find them using Thesaurus.com and the thesaurus in Microsoft Word. [4:32]
Sophia Learning
Sophia: Vocab Tip: Research the Meaning
This video lesson explains how to remember vocabulary by researching the meaning. [5:27] L.9-10.4c References, L.11-12.4 Word Meanings, L.11-12.4c References, L.11-12.4 Word Meanings
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Sophia: Synonym Substitution
This lesson explains how to substitute the synonym to check that the guessed meaning of unknown vocabulary is correct. This tutorial lesson shares a short screencast with the lesson's content. [2:15]