PBS
The Chronicles of Narnia
C.S. Lewis' The Chronicles of Narnia is about far more than the adventures of a group of children in an imaginary kingdom. Find out what else it's about in a short Great American Read video.
PBS
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
Douglas Adams' hysterical send-up of bureaucratic thinking, The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, is the focus of a Great American Read video that urges viewers to vote for one of the greatest satires since Gulliver's Travels.
PBS
Margaret Atwood Explains the Dystopia of The Handmaid's Tale
Talk about a teaser! A short video from the PBS series, The Great American Read, offers just enough information about Margaret Atwood's The Handmaid's Tale to fascinate viewers and have them reaching for the book. The author asserts she...
PBS
Documenting Rural Southern Black Culture
"Sweet Speech," the vernacular of southern blacks that Zora Neale Hurston captures in her novel, Their Eyes Were Watching God, is the subject of a resource from the PBS American Masters series. An anthropologist, Hurston drew on her...
PBS
American Masters: The American Dream in the Grapes of Wrath
For many farmers displaced by the Great Depression and the droughts of the 1930s, California represented the American Dream: a place to find work, to establish a new life, and to provide for their families. The reality they found, as...
TED-Ed
Insults by Shakespeare
Draw your class into Shakespeare's world with very old-school smack talk. Through these creative curses, Shakespeare efficiently sets the mood and develops relationships between characters. The narrator breaks down several examples from...
Sophia Learning
Sophia: Connotation
This video lesson focuses on the word connotation. It defines the term and discusses the impact connotation can have on an audience. It looks at the dictionary definitions of three words: course, class, and field, and uses their synonyms...
Sophia Learning
Sophia: Using Surrounding Sentences
This screencast lesson focuses on how to use surrounding sentences to determine word meaning when reading literature. It suggests looking at adjoining sentences, verbs, adjectives, and adverbs. She uses two examples from "Wuthering...
Sophia Learning
Sophia: Connotation and Denotation
This video lesson focuses on the difference between the connotation and denotation of synonyms. The denotation is the dictionary definition, while the connotation adds feelings, images, or associations to the dictionary definition....
Sophia Learning
Sophia: Vocab Tip: Research the Meaning
This video lesson explains how to remember vocabulary by researching the meaning. [5:27] L.9-10.4c References, L.11-12.4 Word Meanings, L.11-12.4c References, L.11-12.4 Word Meanings
Imagine Learning Classroom
Learn Zillion: Analyze How a Poet's Word Choices Contribute to the Poem's Meaning
In this video, you will learn how to determine the difference between what is directly stated and what is meant by considering the effect of word choice on tone. [7:47]
Imagine Learning Classroom
Learn Zillion: Analyze the Impact of Words and Phrases in a Poem
In this lesson, you will learn how to determine the relationship between two characters by analyzing the impact of specific actions and phrases on the meaning of the text as a whole. [6:28]
Imagine Learning Classroom
Learn Zillion: Lesson Video for 'Analyze a Symbol in a Text'
In this lesson, you will learn how to analyze symbols by connecting figurative language with the meaning of a text. [6:32]
Curated Video
Mistersato411 (You Tube): How Does Word Choice Affect Tone and Meaning?
In this video, the instructor Mr. Sato helps students learn the difference between connotation and denotation. Students will also explain how connotations help develop the author's tone and meaning. RL.11-12.4 Words/Context/Story