Curated OER
How Social Media Can Make History
From Nineteen Eighty-Four, Brave New World, and Fahrenheit 451 to Facebook, Twitter, and TXT. Here’s a must-see video for anyone interested in the transformation of the media landscape and message distribution. The narrator traces four...
PBS
Documenting the Dust Bowl
Paul Taylor's interviews and Dorothea Lange's photographs bring to life the unimaginable devastation of the Dust Bowl. After watching a short video from PBS, viewers are asked to imagine how they would react, whether they would stay or...
PBS
Pbs Learning Media: Objectifying the Text: Conversations in Literature
See how effective readers utilize literary elements and allusions to critically analyze a text in this one-hour video Objectifying the Text. A group of nine experienced educators examine the process of envisionment building as they...
Crash Course
Crash Course Literature #1: How and Why We Read
This seven minute video series of Crash Course Literature uses lively verbal explanations accompanied by entertaining visuals with a host who provides compelling examples of how and why people read.
Sophia Learning
Sophia: Analyze the Impact of the Point of View
Notes describing a three-step process to analyze the impact of the point of view on a literary text. Notes can be both read and listened to.
Imagine Learning Classroom
Learn Zillion: Video: Analyze Rhetoric to Determine an Author's Point of View
In this lesson, you will learn to determine an author's point of view by examining the author's use of rhetoric. [5:31]
Imagine Learning Classroom
Learn Zillion: Lesson Slides for 'Delineate and Evaluate an Argument'
In this lesson, you will learn to delineate and evaluate an argument by considering the validity of an author's claims. [7:25]
Imagine Learning Classroom
Learn Zillion: Determine an Author's Message by Analyzing Character Development
In this video, you will learn how to determine an author's message by analyzing character development. [5:56]
Imagine Learning Classroom
Learn Zillion: Lesson Video for 'Determine an Author's Purpose'
In this lesson, you will learn how to determine an author's purpose by considering his choice of audience. [6:27]
Imagine Learning Classroom
Learn Zillion: Lesson Video for 'Identify Theme by Analyzing Imagery'
In this lesson, you will learn how to identify a theme by analyzing the author's use of imagery. [8:03]
Imagine Learning Classroom
Learn Zillion: Analyze How a Poet's Word Choices Contribute to the Poem's Meaning
In this video, you will learn how to determine the difference between what is directly stated and what is meant by considering the effect of word choice on tone. [7:47]
Imagine Learning Classroom
Learn Zillion: Lesson Video for 'Determine an Author's Point of View'
In this lesson, you will learn how to determine the author's point of view by analyzing key phrases in a section of text. [5:04]
Imagine Learning Classroom
Learn Zillion: Discern Impact of Author Structural Choices: Analyze Foreshadowing
In this video, you will learn how to discern the impact of an author's structural choices by analyzing examples of foreshadowing in a text. [8:02]
Imagine Learning Classroom
Learn Zillion: Determine an Author's Message by Analyzing Character Development
In this video, you will learn how to determine an author's message by analyzing character development. RL.11-12.3 Auth choice story elem [5:56]
EngageNY
Engage Ny: Determine Author's Purpose and Analyze Use of Rhetoric
Students participate in a Socratic seminar and demonstrate how to determine an author's point of view or purpose in a text and analyze how an author uses rhetoric to advance that point of view or purpose.