Instructional Video30:26
Wonderscape

Literature Kids: Theme, Atmosphere, Diction, and Anaphora

K - 5th
In this video, the teacher explains the concepts of literary elements and literary techniques. They discuss the literary elements of theme and atmosphere, and the literary techniques of foreshadowing, diction, and anaphora. Through...
Instructional Video12:32
PBS

To Kill, To Kill a Mockingbird?

12th - Higher Ed
One of the trademark texts of the American school system is Harper Lee’s 1960 novel To Kill a Mockingbird. For decades it has been widely read in high schools and middle schools as a key anti-racist text. But how did...
Instructional Video9:01
PBS

The (Stephen) King of Horror Feat. Lindsay Ellis

12th - Higher Ed
Few writers have had the sheer staying power, popularity, and prolific output as Stephen King. From insatiably flesh-hungry clowns and sentient cars to telekinetic teenagers and mystical gunslingers, if there’s one author who has taken...
Instructional Video6:10
Brainwaves Video Anthology

Linda Hillringhouse - Painting, Poetry and Imagination

Higher Ed
Linda Hillringhouse is a self-taught painter who has shown her work at many local museums and galleries throughout the Tri-State area including the Newark and Paterson Museums, the Ben Shahn Center for Visual Arts at William Paterson...
Instructional Video32:55
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PBS

Hemingway's Privilege and Social Position

7th - 12th Standards
Three clips from the documentary Hemingway by Ken Burns and Lynn Novick form the basis of a lesson on Ernest Hemingway. Viewers use a graphic organizer to identify elements of privilege and social status that "aided him in creating,...
Instructional Video12:26
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Crash Course

Dada, Surrealism, and Symbolism: Crash Course Theater #37

9th - 12th Standards
Video 37 in the Crash Course Drama and Theater playlist discusses surrealism, as well as symbolism and dadaism in the world of theater. Playwrights the narrator discusses include Maurice Maeterlinck, Paul Fort, Lugne Poe, and Andre...
Instructional Video11:37
Crash Course

Aliens

9th - Higher Ed Standards
A playlist on film analysis and criticism continues with an analysis of James Cameron's 1986 sci-fi action classic Aliens, as well as why it is deserving of a place on a list of great films.
Instructional Video
Leaf Group

Classroom: How to Write an Academic Movie Review

9th - 10th Standards
In this video Laura Turner explains how to write a movie review including being open to the film, beginning with positive points, and noting all of the elements of the film. [2:54]