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English Essentials - Next Level Knowledge - Critical Readings Approach to Essays (Stage 6, Years/Grades 11-12)
In today’s lesson, we’ll show you how to analyse texts using the readings approach. Take your analysis of literature to the next level by applying critical readings and finding deeper meaning in your texts. We’ll guide you through...
Curated Video
3 Strategies to Become a Wonderfully Winning IELTS Writer
Today you learn about 3 strategies that will turn you into a high-scoring IELTS writer!
Students often ask, “How do I improve my
writing?”
Or, also often, IELTS teachers hear, “How do I come up...
Students often ask, “How do I improve my
writing?”
Or, also often, IELTS teachers hear, “How do I come up...
Oxford Comma
Ray Bradbury's Usher II: Introduction and Analysis
A spoiler free look at one of my all time favorite short stories, Ray Bradbury's "Usher II" pays homage many of Edgar Allen Poe's most famous tales including: “The Tell-Tale Heart,” “The Pit in the Pendulum,” “The Premature Burial,”...
Oxford Comma
The Simplicity of Sadness: The Red Wheelbarrow
A deceptively deep poem, students have been frustrated by "The Red Wheelbarrow" for decades. This video shows that William's intentionally plays with the idea of significance. Find out more in this reading, summary, and analysis of...
Oxford Comma
A Look at Inspiration in She Walks in Beauty
Often regarded as one of the most beautiful and famous poems of all time, "She Walks in Beauty" has featured in films like The Dead Poet's Society and shows like White Collar. Inevitably, the character reciting the poem does one thing:...
Curated Video
The Tempest Act 2: Ambition
This video essay delves into the ambitious characters and intricate plot of Shakespeare's "The Tempest," highlighting how personal desires for power and revenge set the stage on a mystical island. As we explore Act Two, we analyze the...
Curated Video
Understanding Lying in Politics
Historian Martin Jay (UC Berkeley) discusses how his reflections on lying in politics were likely influenced by reading and re-reading essays by Hannah Arendt.
London Review Bookshop
Rory Stewart on Cumbrian lullabies, Tristram Shandy, Tolstoy and more.
Rory Stewart discusses his concerns about reading too much, his inability to go anywhere without a book, the appeal of the 19th Russian novelists, the brilliance of Tristram Shandy and how books give voice to the dead. Read articles by...
TED-Ed
Why Should You Read “Lord of the Flies” by William Golding?
Lord of the Flies, William Golding's tale of English schoolboys who have crashed and are stranded on a remote island, reflects Golding's view of just how thin the veneer of civilized behavior is. The narrator of a short video argues for...
The School of Life
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Pantheist, romanticist, transciendentalist. Introduce young philosophers to the ideas of Ralph Waldo Emerson with a video that details his life, his ideas, and his essays.