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Pbs Learning Media: Victoria, Season 1: Queen Victoria & the English Jury System
Learn about trial by jury-an underlying principle of English and American law-in this scene from the 2017 drama series Masterpiece: Victoria. The queen, who has just survived an assassination attempt, refuses to bow to fear. She insists...
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Pbs Learning Media: David Copperfield 3: David and Aunt Betsey
Analyze the filmmakers' choices when adapting a Dickens novel into a film. In this pivotal scene from the 2000 Masterpiece production of "David Copperfield," David, destitute and desperate, approaches his formidable Aunt Betsey for the...
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Pbs Learning Media: Wuthering Heights 3: Love or Revenge?
In this scene from the 2009 Masterpiece adaptation of Emily Bronte's Wuthering Heights, Heathcliff interrogates Cathy about how she has changed since her stay at the Linton's Thrushcross Manor. As we glimpse Heathcliff's darker side, we...
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Pbs Learning Media: Wuthering Heights 2: Heathcliff as Hero
This scene from Masterpiece'S 2009 adaptation of Emily Bronte's Wuthering Heights reveals Heathcliff's nature: romantic and rebellious. Mr. Earnshaw offers to buy Heathcliff-the orphan he adopted-a thoroughbred horse. (He has already...
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Pbs Learning Media: Wuthering Heights 1: On the Moors
This scene in the 2009 Masterpiece version of Emily Bronte's Wuthering Heights skillfully sets up not only the plot and characters (the rugged Heathcliff and the innocent Catherine Linton), but a distinct time and place: the Yorkshire...
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Pbs Learning Media: Masterpiece Wuthering Heights Collection
This is a collection of three videos from the 2009 MASTERPIECE version of Emily Bronte's "Wuthering Heights." Teaching materials are included.
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Pbs Learning Media: Great Expectations 1: Setting the Scene
This video excerpt is the opening scene from the 2012 Masterpiece adaptation of Charles Dickens's Great Expectations. A man mysteriously emerges from a marsh to ominous music. A young boy, Pip, is shown briefly in a church graveyard,...
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Pbs Learning Media: Thomas Hardy Collection
Discover how the literary themes of love, honesty, and betrayal are conveyed in the film adaptation of Hardy's classic novel Tess of the d'Urbervilles.
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Pbs Learning Media: The Diary of Anne Frank 3: The Suffering of Millions
Students examine how filmmaking techniques-such as music, voice-over narration, and camera cuts-build tension and capture the viewers' hearts and minds in this excerpt from the 2010 Masterpiece version of The Diary of Anne Frank. In this...
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Pbs Learning Media: The Diary of Anne Frank 2: Anne's Birthday
Students explore the process of adapting a work of literature for the screen in this excerpt from Masterpiece's 2010 adaptation of The Diary of Anne Frank. By comparing and contrasting the way in which the film and the book portray...
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Pbs Learning Media: The Diary of Anne Frank 1: A Difficult Situation
Students explore the diary as a literary genre, as well as the themes of The Diary of Anne Frank, in this excerpt from Masterpiece's 2010 version of The Diary of Anne Frank. As students analyze a scene in which Anne's father talks about...
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Pbs Learning Media: Anne Frank Collection
Use these media-rich resources to analyze the diary as a literary genre and understand the historical context in which Anne Frank wrote her unforgettable testament to hope.
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Pbs Learning Media: River Rewilding: Grand River Social and Economic Impacts
Learn bow the Grand River plated a role in the economy and culture of the people who lived along the river. [3:59]
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Pbs Learning Media: Molly of Denali: Party Moose
The importance of paying attention to what you are reading, and employing reading strategies when something doesn't make sense, are demonstrated in the 11-minute animated story "Party Moose" from the PBS Kids series Molly of Denali.
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Pbs Learning Media: Molly of Denali: Suki's Bone
Discover what happens when Molly's dog Suki finds a bone with beautiful markings on it in the 11-minute animated story "Suki's Bone" from the PBS Kids series Molly of Denali. Support materials are included.
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Pbs Learning Media: Molly of Denali: Tooey's Hero
Explore Alaska Native culture and the importance of dog sledding in the 11-minute animated story "Tooey's Hero" from the PBS Kids series Molly of Denali. Support materials provided.
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Pbs Learning Media: Amy Ryan: Paleontologist
Teach language, vocabulary and listening comprehension with Celebrity Vocab clips! [1:25]
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Pbs Learning Media: Zac Efron: Patience
Teach language, vocabulary and listening comprehension with Celebrity Vocab clips! [1:42]
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Pbs Learning Media: Ed Helms: Grimace
Teach language, vocabulary and listening comprehension with Celebrity Vocab clips! [2:01]
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Pbs Learning Media: Casey Affleck: Careful
Teach language, vocabulary and listening comprehension with Celebrity Vocab clips! [1:36]
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Pbs Learning Media: Craig Ferguson: Experiment
Teach language, vocabulary and listening comprehension with Celebrity Vocab clips! [2:14]
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Pbs Learning Media: Naomi Watts and Liev Schrieber: Exchange
Teach language, vocabulary and listening comprehension with Celebrity Vocab clips! [2:15]
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Pbs Learning Media: Nicole Kidman: Stubborn
Teach language, vocabulary and listening comprehension with Celebrity Vocab clips! [1:48]
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Pbs Learning Media: Maria Menounos: Senses
Teach language, vocabulary and listening comprehension with Celebrity Vocab clips! [2:33]