Curated Video
High Five Facts - Celtic Druids
This video explores five fun facts about Celtic Druids.
Curated Video
High Five Facts - Julius Caesar
This video explores five fun facts about Julius Caesar.
Curated Video
A Midsummer Night's Dream: Introduction and Context
This video provides background information and pre-reading material for William Shakespeare's comedy A Midsummer Night's Dream. This is the first video in a series about A Midsummer Night's Dream that will analyze and interpret the play...
The Art Assignment
My Top 40 Art Reflections
Host Sarah Urist Green shares 40 reflections about art, gathered in the course of a career in art, art history, curating, and making videos about all of the above.
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Can Art Save Nature: Future of Forestry
C.S. Lewis, widely known for his children's series The Chronicles of Narnia, composed a number of fantastic poems - "The Future of Forestry" being my personal favorite. In it, Lewis imagines an England devoid of trees. This desolation is...
Brainwaves Video Anthology
Herman Beavers - Why Poetry Matters
Herman Beavers has taught at Penn since 1989. Professor Beavers has a joint appointment in the Department of Africana Studies and teaches courses in African American and American literature, including courses on Southern Modernism, 20th...
Schooling Online
Perfecting Poetry: Rosemary Dobson - Summer's End - 1. After the Summer Season
Discover how Dobson uses the symbol of summer’s end to explore the inevitable passage of time. The first wave of winter comes, washing away the sun-hats, surfboards and screaming children of summer. The waves ebb and flow, mirroring the...
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Love and Memory: What Lips My Lips Have Kissed
A summary, reading, and analysis of Edna St. Vincent Millay's "What lips my lips have kissed, and where, and why." The title alone could have its own video, so please don't take this as an exhaustive study. But, if you're confused by the...
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Perfecting Poetry: T.S. Eliot - Rhapsody On A Windy Night - Lines 49-78
As we approach the end of the poem, we see a man in crisis. Join us as we explore Stanzas 6, 7 and the poem’s final, disturbing line. As always, our analysis is stress-free, using vibrant visuals and easy explanations. To give you the...
Amor Sciendi
"Power" by Adrienne Rich Explained
A close reading of Adrienne Rich's classic poem "Power"
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A Look at Inspiration in She Walks in Beauty
Often regarded as one of the most beautiful and famous poems of all time, "She Walks in Beauty" has featured in films like The Dead Poet's Society and shows like White Collar. Inevitably, the character reciting the poem does one thing:...
Kids’ Poems and Stories With Michael Rosen
DAY 10 | STORY | The Wicked Tricks of Till Owlyglass - Kids' Poems and Stories With Michael Rosen
The Tenth Day DAY 10 | STORY | The Wicked Tricks of Till Owlyglass - Kids' Poems and Stories With Michael Rosen When we hear how Till Owlyglass caused an innkeeper to be terrified by a dead, frozen wolf.
Kids’ Poems and Stories With Michael Rosen
Chapter 13 | You're Thinking About Tomatoes | STORY
You're Thinking About Tomatoes - Chapter 13 Kids' Poems and Stories With Michael Rosen. A sequel to the very popular ‘You're Thinking About Doughnuts’. Frank is back among the ruins of the past again, this time on a school trip to a...
Kids’ Poems and Stories With Michael Rosen
Words Are Ours | POEM
Words Are Ours | POEM - From ‘Big Book of Bad Things’ (Puffin).
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Speaker or Author: She Dwelt Amoung the Untrodden Ways
By using William Wordsworth's famous poem we seek to draw the distinction between author and speaker and determine which one was in love with the mysterious Lucy.
Kids’ Poems and Stories With Michael Rosen
Big Book of Bad Things - Part 4 - Kid's Poems and Stories with Michael Rosen
Big Book of Bad Things - Part 4 Michael Rosen performs a series of poems titled 'Poems And Stories About My Family'. The poems are all taken from Michael Rosen's books and this series of performances was produced by Joe Rosen.
Schooling Online
Perfecting Poetry: Rosemary Dobson - Young Girl at a Window
Discover how Dobson uses the image of a girl at a window to explore the complex experience of coming of age. A young girl stands at a window, wondering whether she should open it. What is the poem really about? The young girl represents...
Kids’ Poems and Stories With Michael Rosen
Chapter 5 | STORY | You're Thinking About Doughnuts
Chapter 5 | STORY | You're Thinking About Doughnuts When Frank's mom has to work late one Friday cleaning the local museum, he finds himself spending a lonely night roaming the dark halls - until a chatty skeleton appears and takes him...
Kids’ Poems and Stories With Michael Rosen
Top 5 Everyday Phrases from Shakespeare | BOOK
Top 5 Everyday Phrases from Shakespeare | BOOKWhat’s So Special About Shakespeare?’, published by Walker Books. Synopsis So what was it like to live in Shakespeare's time? What do we actually know about him? And how does someone become...
Kids’ Poems and Stories With Michael Rosen
Chapter 9 | STORY | You're Thinking About Doughnuts
Chapter 9 | STORY | You're Thinking About Doughnuts When Frank's mom has to work late one Friday cleaning the local museum, he finds himself spending a lonely night roaming the dark halls - until a chatty skeleton appears and takes him...
Schooling Online
Perfecting Poetry: Rosemary Dobson - Amy Caroline
Discover Dobson’s poignant reflection on her grandmother, Amy Caroline. Dobson offers a lively and quirky description of Amy Caroline. She always had time for others and loved caring for the birds and flowers. But life hasn’t always been...
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Romantic or Sleazy? Andrew Marvell's To His Coy Mistress
In this reading, summary, and analysis we'll look at Andrew Marvell's "To His Coy Mistress." At nearly 400 years old, the poem remains surprisingly relevant, funny, and uncomfortable.
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Perfecting Poetry: T.S. Eliot - The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock - Lines 55-69
In this lesson, we celebrate reaching the half-way point in our analysis of T.S. Eliot’s ‘The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock’. We will recap key points from previous lessons before we move on to look at lines 55-59. We enlist the help...