TED Talks
TED: How creative writing can help you through life's hardest moments | Sakinah Hofler
Have you ever seen or experienced something and wished you spoke up? Writer Sakinah Hofler makes the case for writing as a tool to help you process difficult memories and reclaim the power they may hold. Pick up a pen or pull up a...
Wonderscape
Discovering Adjectives in a Story
This video encourages viewers to identify and understand the role of adjectives in a story about a cricket and an ant. It highlights various adjectives, including descriptive words about characters, settings, and emotions, demonstrating...
Wonderscape
Adjectives: Adding Color and Detail to Sentences
Discover the role of adjectives in language as they add description and detail to nouns. This video highlights how adjectives like 'blue', 'tall', 'scary', and 'small' enhance sentences, providing examples of adjectives placed both next...
Wonderscape
Adverbs: Enhancing Actions and Descriptions in Language
Explore the function of adverbs, which describe verbs, adjectives, or other adverbs, and provide details about when, where, how, or to what extent something happens. This video demonstrates through examples how adverbs like 'happily',...
Curated Video
Julia Alvarez
Julia Alvarez's remarkable contributions to Hispanic literature explore immigrant experiences, cultural identity, and resistance against injustice.
Brainwaves Video Anthology
Stephanie Burt - Teachers Make a Difference - John Burghardt & Helen Vendler
In this video, Stephanie Burt, a literary critic and poet at Harvard University, recounts how two influential teachers, John Burkhart and Helen Vendler, profoundly impacted her educational journey. John Burkhart, a high school English...
Wonderscape
The Playful Art of Puns: Exploring Wordplay
This video delves into the world of puns, a form of wordplay that utilizes words with multiple meanings or similar sounds for humorous or thoughtful effects. It explains different types of puns, such as homophonic, homographic, and...
Wonderscape
Character Development in Narratives
This video focuses on character development, an essential literary device in storytelling. It explains how characters, whether human, alien, or even inanimate objects, drive a narrative's progression. The video differentiates between...
Curated Video
Silent Ferry
Silent Ferry is a creative writing text that contains figurative language and words with particular connotations that impact tone, mood, and pacing.
Curated Video
Types of Characterization
“Types of Characterization” will help the student to review the different types of characterization, particularly direct and indirect characterization
Englishing
Sentence Variation - A Writing Guide for Sentence Structure
Sentence variety reduces repetition in a piece of writing and emphasizes important points in the text. Sentence variety can be introduced to the beginning of sentences by starting a sentence with an adverb, starting a sentence with a...
The Wall Street Journal
Eve Rodsky: The New Work-Life Balance
Author Eve Rodksy shares practical advice on how to balance full-time employment with caregiving and domestic responsibilities now that the pandemic has transformed the way we live and work.
National Theatre
Playwrights Series: The Art of Writing Dialogue in Plays
This video features a playwright discussing their love of dialogue and how they approach writing it for their plays. They emphasize the importance of balancing naturalism with stylization and the process of refining dialogue through...
National Theatre
Playwrights Series: A Journey of Style and Content
This video features a playwright discussing the evolution of her voice and style, touching on the importance of form in relation to content and the power of verbatim theater to heighten audience engagement and appreciation for the beauty...
Brainwaves Video Anthology
Tony Fusco - Teachers Make a Difference - Vivian Shipley
Tony Fusco, is a West Haven resident and was named Poet Laureate for the City of West Haven in April of 2019. and is also Co- President and Past-President of the CT Poetry Society. He has a Masters Degree in Creative Writing from...
Brainwaves Video Anthology
Randall Horton - Write and Wrong One Man's Journey
Randall Horton is the recipient of the Gwendolyn Brooks Poetry Award, the Bea Gonzalez Poetry Award, a National Endowment of the Arts Fellowship in Literature, and, most recently, the GLCA New Writers Award for Creative Nonfiction. He is...
NASA
Houston We Have a Podcast: From Space to You
On Episode 238, Daniel Lockney reviews some of the most fascinating NASA technologies that have made their way into our everyday lives.
National Theatre
Playwrights Series: Character
In this series, ten playwrights discuss different approaches to their craft, including how to form a character. Featuring writers Simon Stephens, In-Sook Chappell, Evan Placey, Alecky Blythe, Tanya Ronder, Suhayla El-Bushra, Ryan Craig,...
Brainwaves Video Anthology
Margaret Gibson - Teachers Make a Difference - John Allen, Louis Rubin Jr and George Garrett
Connecticut Poet Laureate, Author, Professor Emerita “Margaret Gibson has created a voice and an art that connect the sensuous experience of the physical world with the inner life,” Pattiann Rogers has written. Nationally and...
National Theatre
Playwrights Series: Tips for Writing and Overcoming Writer's Block
In this video, a playwright shares practical tips for writing and developing plays, including setting aside dedicated writing time, reading aloud, seeking feedback, and incorporating personal quirks and experiences into the work. She...
National Theatre
Playwrights Series: Finding Inspiration and Crafting a Story
In this video, a playwright shares insights on writing for theater, including the importance of writing about what you find interesting and emotionally connect with, the freedom to structure a play in any way you want, and the need to...
National Theatre
Playwrights Series: Tips for Starting and Planning Your Writing Process
This video features insights from a playwright on their writing process, including the importance of starting and not being judgmental of the first draft, the need for planning and structure, the role of research and mulling, and the...
Brainwaves Video Anthology
Ashley Rimmer - Teachers Make a Difference - Mary Layton
Ashley Rimmer is entering her 5th year of teaching and "Novemberized" learning some in her classroom last year. She is excited to learn new ways to empower students. She is a National Board Certified English teacher. Last year, she was...
National Theatre
Playwrights Series: The Art of Writing for the Stage
In this video, a playwright shares her thoughts on the importance of limitations and boundaries in creative work, particularly in theater. She discusses how the stage can be a metaphorical space and how the size and intimacy of the play...