The multi-paragraph essay is the subject of a presentation designed for high schoolers. Color codes are used to highlight for viewers the different elements found in each paragraph. Unlike some presentations, the same essay is used...

The Humor Web site presentation is simply a resource guide for various web site categories that address humor. There is no content included and this would only be useful as a tool for a teacher who would like these resources categorized....

A PowerPoint presentation on how to communicate a message using image, video, and sound techniques as described by Herbert Zettl. Includes images and links to video examples.

[Free Registration/Login Required] This is a collection of images from the 17th to the 21st centuries from the Victoria and Albert Museum inspired by Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream including several video links, costume design...

This online lesson helps students explore primary sources, including photographs and audio and video recordings, in order to learn about the Apollo crew and spacecraft, the history of the space race, and the incredible technological...

An interactive video that shows the faulty intelligence leading up to the war in Iraq. Gives examples of how the intelligence was not successful in providing security against the insurgency and rebuilding Iraq.

Fictional diary excerpts, photos, and videos tell the story of German reunification from May 6, 1989, to Oct. 3, 1991.

This video lesson focuses on using character cards as a reading strategy. It defines and gives the purpose of character cards, explains the type of information to put on the front and the back of the card and how to maintain the card. It...

This video lesson focuses on concrete and abstract language by defining them in a comparison form, providing examples of each, and providing practice in the form of listing words and asking students to classify them as concrete or abstract.

This is a mixed media biography of Mark Twain/Samuel Clemens. It includes an excellent PowerPoint presentation, "Mark Twain: Life, Works, and Quotations," a list of bibliographical information, a short YouTube video, a list of his most...

This video lesson focuses on creating a system of note taking symbols and abbreviations that work for the individual. It explains the purposes of note taking and of using symbols and abbreviations; offers quick tips for abbreviating...

This video tutorial focuses on outlining plot; it explains that we outline plot as a way to analyze it; to analyze plot, focus on main events and interaction involving main characters. It offers three methods for outlining plot:...

This video lesson provides a tip to learn new vocabulary. Look up the word in online dictionary, and then create a short sentence using the word including context clues and a familiar topic. Real Player is required.

This video lesson focuses on the strategy of hearing unfamiliar vocabulary said aloud. The advantages of hearing it said aloud include activating prior knowledge and the brain remembering it better. It offers ways to learn the...

This video lesson offers a tip for learning new vocabulary words by saying the word and its definition aloud. This stimulates the brain and activates prior knowledge which helps you remember the word. It also covers what to do if you...

This tutorial focuses on analyzing Shakespeare's works using "Midsummer Nights Dream" in the form of a downloadable PowerPoint presentation. It also provides "Tools for Analysis of Tragedy and Tragic Action" and a YouTube video...

Through personal accounts, photos, and videos this project documents the separation of families in Poland in the years 1939-1989.

Pictorial essay combines photos and video to tell the story of the fall of the wall in Berlin in 1989.

Photographic and video discussion attempts to answer the question "Why Did the Berlin Wall Fall in November 1989?"

Photographic essay features an array of photos, primary source documents, and first-hand video testimony from the man who attempted to inform the world about the existence of the Holocaust.

Twenty years of Nelson Mandela put together in a stunning timeline that includes stories, quotes, video, and photographs.

This tutorial focuses on common themes in literature, beginning with a slide show discussing 11 different, common themes and literary examples. This is followed by a 11-minute YouTube video with students acting out common themes in...

This video lesson focuses on satire including its definition, its purpose, how it works, media examples, and literary examples. Real Player is required.

A slideshow discussing ten rhetorical devices, with links to examples, in-depth information, and a video. Covers logos, ethos, pathos, analogy, metaphor, irony, personification, rhetorical question, tricolon, and maxims. Presents a...