PBS
A Farewell to Arms: Shaping Fact for Fiction
Clips from the documentary Hemingway by Ken Burns and Lynn Novick reveal how Ernest Hemingway incorporated his own war experiences in A Farewell to Arms. Young writers then take an experience from their own lives and craft it...
PBS
Exploring Hemingway’s Style
The man, the myth, and the reality. Three clips from the documentary Hemingway by Ken Burns and Lynn Novick introduce viewers to the unique features of Ernest Hemingway's writing style and the events in Hemingway's life that...
PBS
Why Do Our Brains Love Fake News?
Fake news is all about the dorsolateral prefrontal cortex versus the orbitofrontal cortex. Huh? Get the facts, the real deal, with a short video that explains clearly and succinctly what's going on in our brains that leads us to listen...
PBS
To Kill a Mockingbird Setting: A Portrait of a Southern Town in the 1930s
The characters of Harper Lee's To Kill a Mockingbird are formed and informed, in part, by the distinctive historical backdrop of Alabama during the Great Depression. Watch a video that details Lee's experience growing up in...
Howard Hughes Medical Institute
Mismatch Repair
What does a cell do when DNA is not copied correctly? An informative video shows budding scientists an example of a mismatch mutation during DNA replication. Viewers learn that to prevent a mutation from occurring, cells have mechanisms...
The School of Life
James Joyce
James Joyce was not the first writer to use stream of consciousness, but the sensory experience in such novels as Ulysses and A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man was revolutionary in the literary world. Learn more...
The School of Life
Charles Dickens
How much do you know about the life of Charles Dickens? A thorough video discusses the author's professional successes and private failures with engaging animation and informative narration.
The School of Life
Philosophy - Plato
Some of the best advice for society, relationships, and personal growth was written nearly 3,000 years ago. High schoolers learn more about Plato's four ideas for reaching eudaimonia, or "fulfillment," in an explanatory video.
The New York Times
Kiev in Chaos: Teaching About the Crisis in Ukraine
Provide a historical context for the political unrest between Russia and Ukraine that began in late 2013. Learners review their prior knowledge and chronicle new understandings with a KWL chart, watch a video explaining the Ukrainian...
TED-Ed
The Key to the Media's Hidden Codes
You are being manipulated! Arm yourself with awareness! Learn how to identify the various technical codes (images, sounds, colors), and how media makers use these codes to subconsciously influence your emotions and impulses. Just do...
Sophia Learning
Sophia: Targeted Re Reading
This lesson defines and explains how to do targeted re-reading and provides two literary examples. It offers this information in both text and audio formats.
Sophia Learning
Sophia: Tracking Comprehension
This lesson focuses on strategies for tracking comprehension while reading. It provides three main strategies: summarizing, chunking, and glossing. It explains each in step-by-step fashion using both text and audio.
Sophia Learning
Sophia: Summarizing as You Read
This lesson explains the reading strategy of summarizing as you read. [5:37] RL.9-10.2 & RL.11-12.2 Analyzing Theme, RI.9-10.2 central idea/summary.
Imagine Learning Classroom
Learn Zillion: Lesson Video for 'Analyze the Structure of a Dramatic Text'
In this lesson, you will learn how to analyze the structure of a dramatic text by creating a timeline of events. [6:15]
Imagine Learning Classroom
Learn Zillion: Determine a Text's Central Idea by Analyzing the Author's Claims
In this video, you will learn how to determine an author's central idea by analyzing the author's claims. [3:51]
Other
Cult of Pedagogy (You Tube): Teaching Text Structures for Non Fiction Reading
This video from Jennifer Gonzalez's Cult of Pedagogy provides step-by-step instructions for guiding students to understand how to determine text structures.
Annenberg Foundation
Annenberg Learner: Annotating Across Disciplines
Students use microscopes to look at single-celled organisms. [3:48]
Other
The Seahorse Project: Finding the Main Argument in Academic Writing
This video gives you hints on how to read a book chapter or journal article so that you can find the author's argument. [2:50]