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Curated OER

Mining Literature for Deeper Meanings

9th - Higher Ed Standards
Literature teachers often ask their classes to find the big ideas in a text, but how does a writer do this successfully? Show the video to give your pupils some steps to keep in mind while they read and analyze. The narrator encourages...
Audio
Learn Out Loud

Learn Out Loud: Literary History and Criticism [Free Audios]

9th - 10th Standards
More than twenty-five free audio or video files from renowned scholars which provide some in-depth literary criticism as well as the scope of literary history. Many of these are university lectures while others are interviews from...
Instructional Video
Imagine Learning Classroom

Learn Zillion: Support Your Claim With Reasons and Evidence From the Text

11th - 12th Standards
In this lesson, you will learn how to develop your claim by outlining your essay and making sure each reason has sufficient evidence. [6:27]
Instructional Video
PBS

Pbs Learning Media: Poetry in America: Those Winter Sundays

9th - 10th Standards
Robert Hayden's sonnet "Those Winter Sundays" offers a meditation on the fraught love between fathers and sons. Conjuring Depression-era industrial Detroit and the struggles of early 20th-century African Americans, the poem's...
Instructional Video
PBS

Pbs Learning Media: "n.y. State of Mind" by Nas

9th - 10th Standards
Multi-platinum hip hop artist Nas has a global reputation as one of the greatest emcees and lyricists in his contemporary art form, but what about within the history and canon, of American poetry? Learn alongside host Elisa New as Nas,...
Instructional Video
PBS

Pbs Learning Media: "The Gray Heron" by Galway Kinnell

9th - 10th Standards
How is the poet's eye like or unlike that of the scientist, the photographer, or of the small child first rambling around the natural world? In this environmentally-themed, visually splendid video [7:07] excerpted from Poetry in America,...
Instructional Video
PBS

Pbs Learning Media: "The New Colossus" by Emma Lazarus

9th - 10th Standards
While "The New Colossus" once welcomed immigrants into New York Harbor from its perch on the Statue of Liberty, this video [5:22] excerpted from Poetry in America brings the discussion of poetry and immigration into our current moment....
Instructional Video
PBS

Pbs Learning Media: "To Prisoners" by Gwendolyn Brooks

9th - 10th Standards
Lyric poetry carries the expression of the solitary human voice. Does it then follow that solitary confinement is a school for great poetry? This video excerpted from Poetry in America brings together a group of interpreters who learned...
Instructional Video
PBS

Pbs Learning Media: "Shirt" by Robert Pinsky

9th - 10th Standards
What is a cherished garment made of? What is a poem made of? Labor and raw materials, tradition and innovation, influences both local and global, and art are stitched into both. In this video [6:54] excerpted from Poetry in America, host...