Tom Nicholas
Structuralism and Semiotics: WTF? Saussure, Lévi-Strauss, Barthes and Structuralism Explained
Structuralism is a form of literary theory which, inspired by semiotics and the linguistics of Ferdinand de Saussure, emerged in France in the 1950s. In this week’s episode of What the Theory?, we take a look at how structuralism and...
Cerebellum
The Elements Of Fiction - Plot Structure And Types Of Narrative
The Elements of Fiction - Ernest Hemingway, Mark Twain, Robert Louis Stevenson . These are just three of the renowned authors whose work is cited in The Elements of Fiction, which explores: Plot elements, character, conflict, flashback,...
Cerebellum
The Elements Of Fiction - Understanding Theme's
The Elements of Fiction - Ernest Hemingway, Mark Twain, Robert Louis Stevenson . these are just three of the renowned authors whose work is cited in The Elements of Fiction, which explores: Plot elements, character, conflict, flashback,...
Curated OER
How Do You Graph a Relation From a Table?
Just a couple of ways to look at some data regarding basketball free throw percentages for a specific player. Make a table and a coordinate axes graph. Plot the ordered pairs to get a nice visual to take a look at the data. Watch this...
Curated OER
How Do You Use the Graph of a Linear Equation to Solve a Word Problem?
There are rabbits, rabbits, rabbits everywhere. Not this group of rabbits. Use a table to find some x and y values to create a graph to solve this word problem. It's a rather peculiar word problem in that it is trying to find when a...
Curated OER
The Story of India - The Meeting of Two Oceans - 3/6
Part-three of this six part series begins with a dramatization of a battle between Indians and Muslims which led to the dawn of the Mughal Empire. Unlike other Muslim rulers in India, the Mughal leader was a devote Sufi and had a deep...
Curated OER
How Do You Use the Vertical Line Test to Figure Out if a Graph is a Function?
How does the vertical line test help you decide if the graph of an equation is a function? The instructor draws a graph and then draws the line of the equation. She demonstrates how to use the vertical line test to determine if the graph...
Curated OER
How Do You Make an Approximate Graph From a Word Problem?
The instructor illustrates an approximate graph to plot the terms of this word problem. There are several parts on this graph that need to be identified before plotting. The instructor does a good job explaining the word problem as she...
Curated OER
What is a Plane?
It's a bird, it's a plane, it's Superman. No, it's really a plane. A plane is named by identifying three points with the exception that they do not form a straight line. A plane can also be identified by a single letter naming it. The...
Curated OER
How Do You Use the Vertical Line Test to Figure Out if a Graph is a Function?
How does the vertical line test help you decide if the graph of an equation is a function? The instructor draws a graph and then draws the line of the equation. She demonstrates how to use the vertical line test to determine if the graph...
Curated OER
What is the Coordinate Plane?
Just a quick diagram and explanation of the parts of the coordinate plane. You might want to remind your class to put arrows on the ends of the x-axis and the y-axis, as these lines go on forever.
Sophia Learning
Sophia: Identifying Plot Advancement
This lesson explains how to identify plot advancement (actions or events that move the plot forward) in fiction writing. [5:44]