American Museum of Natural History
Niles Eldredge: Trilobites and Punctuated Equilibria
In the late 1960s, Curator Emeritus Niles Eldredge was a graduate student with a passion for trilobite eyes. He had been taught to expect slow and steady change between the specimens of these Devonian arthropods he collected for his...
Teaching Channel
Building Analysis Skills Through Art
Useful teaching strategies abound in this inspirational, informative video! Walk step by step through one teacher's two-part lesson in her special education/ELL class as they develop text analysis skills by first beginning with...
Imagine Learning Classroom
Learn Zillion: Lesson Video for 'Analyze the Impact of Tension on the Reader'
In this lesson, you will learn how tension impacts the reader by analyzing the author's use of foreshadowing. [5:54]
EngageNY
Engage Ny: Determine Author's Purpose and Analyze Use of Rhetoric
Students participate in a Socratic seminar and demonstrate how to determine an author's point of view or purpose in a text and analyze how an author uses rhetoric to advance that point of view or purpose.
Imagine Learning Classroom
Learn Zillion: Video: Determine Theme by Analyzing Repetition in a Poem
In this lesson, you will learn how to determine the theme of a poem by analyzing the author's use of repetition. [6:00]
Imagine Learning Classroom
Learn Zillion: Determine Author's Purpose Using Text Evidence
In this lesson, you will learn how to determine the author's purpose by asking, "Why did the author write this?" and using text evidence to prove his purpose. [10:04]