Crash Course
The Handmaid's Tale, Part 2: Crash Course Literature 404
This week, John Green continues to teach you about Margaret Atwood's speculative fiction, The Handmaid's Tale. In this installment, we're looking at Atwood's desire to tell a story from a female point of view, and what exactly it means...
TED Talks
Glenn Cantave: How augmented reality is changing activism
Glenn Cantave uses technology to highlight narratives of the oppressed. In a tour of immersive visual projects, he shares his work with the team at Movers and Shakers NYC, a coalition that executes direct action and advocacy campaigns...
Curated Video
The Tempest and Post-Colonial Theory: Finding Sympathy for Caliban
This video critically explores Caliban's portrayal in Shakespeare's "The Tempest" from a post-colonial viewpoint. It challenges the simplistic label of 'savage' by highlighting Caliban's humanity and poetic expression, and discusses the...
Wonderscape
The Power of Narratives and Literary Devices
This video explores the significance of communication through storytelling, emphasizing the power of the pen in shaping perceptions and actions. It introduces five key literary devices—narrative, plot, tone and mood, setting, and...
Curated Video
Narrative Writing 1
Narrative Writing explains the purpose of narrative writing and lists examples of focused, specific topics for narrative writing.
The Guardian
From Burna Boy to Beyoncé: how black culture is embracing its African roots
In recent years, Africans on the continent and in the diaspora have become leading voices in black culture – in music, film, fashion, social media, comedy and even our memes. When Grace Shutti was growing up, black culture usually...
Tom Nicholas
Marxist Literary Theory - WTF? An Introduction to Marxism and Culture
In this latest episode of What The Theory?, I hope to provide an introduction to Marxism, culture and Marxist Literary Criticism and Theory. We're going to begin with the economic theories of Marx and Engels, particularly their base and...
Curated Video
What Is Narrative Writing?
“What Is Narrative Writing?” describes the genre of narrative writing.
Curated Video
Writing a Narrative: Part 1 Structure & Elements
An Introduction to narratives. Part 1 in our series 'Planning & Writing a Narrative'. This video explains the basic structure of narratives and identifies the story elements.
PBS
An Ode to the Romance Novel (Feat. Lindsay Ellis)
What actually makes a romance novel? The romance novel has been the subject of intrigue, derision, and shame in literary discourse long before the modern genre as we know it today existed. Romance novels are relegated to your Aunt...
Language Tree
Language Function and Construction: Condensing Ideas, Part 1
For beginner English learners, this standards-based ELD lesson focuses on condensing ideas in simple ways (e.g., by compounding verbs, adding prepositional phrases, or through simple embedded clause) to create precise and detailed...
Language Tree
Language Function and Construction: Using Noun and Noun Phrases, Part 2
For beginner English learners, this standards-based ELD lesson explains how to expand noun phrases (e.g., adding a sensory adjective to a noun) in order to enrich the meaning of sentences and add details about ideas, people and things.
Language Tree
Language Function and Construction: Condensing Ideas, Part 3
For beginner English learners, this standards-based ELD lesson focuses on condensing ideas in simple ways (e.g., by compounding verbs, adding prepositional phrases, or through simple embedded clause) to create precise and detailed...
The Art Assignment
Exquisite Corpse | Hugo Crosthwaite | The Art Assignment
This week we come to you from Rosarito, Mexico AND Chicago, IL to bring you an assignment from Hugo Crosthwaite. Hugo asks you to create a collaborative drawing by playing the Surrealist game Exquisite Corpse.
Brainwaves Video Anthology
Molefi Kete Asante - Afrocentric Education
Dr. Molefi Kete Asante is Professor and Chair, Department of African American Studies at Temple University. Considered by his peers to be one of the most distinguished contemporary scholars, Asante has published 77 books, among the most...
Language Tree
Language Function and Construction: Condensing Ideas, Part 2
For beginner English learners, this standards-based ELD lesson focuses on condensing ideas in simple ways (e.g., by compounding verbs, adding prepositional phrases, or through simple embedded clause) to create precise and detailed...
Language Tree
Language Function and Construction: Condensing Ideas, Part 4
For beginner English learners, this standards-based ELD lesson focuses on condensing ideas in simple ways (e.g., by compounding verbs, adding prepositional phrases, or through simple embedded clause) to create precise and detailed...
KERA
Connecting Through Art at the Border
An interactive art installation with giant lights and booming loudspeakers is helping people communicate across the U.S.-Mexico border. Visitors to the exhibit on both sides of the border are invited to send searchlights into the sky and...
Language Tree
Language Function and Construction: Modifying to Add Details
For beginner English learners, this standards-based ELD lesson shows how expanding sentences with simple adverbials (e.g., adverbs, adverb phrases, prepositional phrases) to provide details (e.g., time, manner, place, cause) about...
Language Tree
Language Function and Construction: Connecting Ideas
For beginner English learners, this standards-based ELD lesson talks about how to combine clauses in a few basic ways to make connections between ideas and to join ideas (e.g. creating compound sentences using "and", "but", "so";...
Institute for New Economic Thinking
Kimberly Chong: What Do Management Consultants Do?
Most of us probably think of management consultancy as a technocratic function, helping companies fix internal problems in order to become more productive. But Institute for New Economic Thinking grantee Kimberley Chong thinks about it...
PBS
An Ode to the Romance Novel
Love it or hate it, the romance novel is the highest grossing literary genre. Its history is long and winding (like your favorite romance novel), and romance novels are full of tropes reflected upon its history. It has been the subject...
Englishing
ESL - What are Myths?
What is a myth, legend and folktale?. In this video, Mr. P. will find the answers to that question. He will also provide clear explanations on the difference between creation and heroic myths. This lesson is designed for intermediate...
Language Tree
Language Function and Construction: Text Structure, Part 2
This lesson for beginner English learners teaches how different text types are organized to express ideas (e.g., how narratives are organized sequentially); comprehending texts and writing brief arguments, informative/ explanatory texts...