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Schooling Online
Virginia Woolf's A Room of One's Own - Context
Join us for a detailed lesson on the Context of Virginia Woolf’s iconic essay, ‘A Room of One’s Own’. Learn how history, culture, and Woolf’s personal circumstances had a direct impact on her exploration of key themes in the essay: Male...
Teaching Without Frills
Realistic Fiction Writing for Kids Episode 3: Writing an Introduction
In this video, you will learn how to write an introduction for your realistic fiction story! An introduction should hook the reader and introduce the main character and setting.
Teaching Without Frills
Realistic Fiction Writing for Kids Episode 2: Brainstorming
In this video, you will learn how to brainstorm ideas for your realistic fiction story. We will brainstorm the main character, setting, problem, and solution.
Teaching Without Frills
Persuasive Writing for Kids - Episode 3: Making a Plan
In this video, you will learn how to make a plan for your persuasive writing. We will think about the audience for our writing, and choose reasons that would be the most convincing to them.
Teaching Without Frills
Persuasive Writing for Kids - Episode 2: Brainstorming Topics
In this video, you will learn how to brainstorm topic ideas for your persuasive writing.
Teaching Without Frills
How to Write an Imaginative Narrative for Kids Episode 2: Brainstorming
In this video, you will learn how to brainstorm an imaginative narrative or fantasy story using a graphic organizer. We will learn how to brainstorm different ideas for the character and setting, and then choose the ones that are best...
Teaching Without Frills
How to Write a Research Paper for Kids Episode 1: Brainstorming Topics
This video series will teach you how to write a research paper or report. Each episode leads you through each step of the writing process. In this video, you will learn how to brainstorm research topic ideas!
Teaching Without Frills
Writing a Personal Narrative for Kids - Episode 5: Writing a Closing or Conclusion
In this video, you will learn how to write a closing or conclusion for your personal narrative story. We will discuss different strategies like rephrasing your opening, sharing feelings, describing a lesson learned, telling a hope you...
Teaching Without Frills
Writing a Personal Narrative for Kids - Episode 4: Writing a Draft
In this video, you will learn how to write a draft for your personal narrative story. We will write the important events in order, using transition words and details to describe what happened.
Teaching Without Frills
Writing a Personal Narrative - Episode 1: Brainstorming a Story for Kids
In this video, you will learn how to brainstorm topic ideas for your personal narrative story.
Teaching Without Frills
How to Create an Outline for Kids - Planning Your Writing
In this video, you'll learn how to create an outline to plan your writing! We'll use a persuasive writing topic as an example to see how an outline can help you organize your ideas before writing.
Communication Coach Alex Lyon
How to Be More Articulate 5 Tips
Learn how to be more articulate with these 5 tips.
Hip Hughes History
Using Grades as an Aid in Your Classroom Teaching
Let HipHughes coax you into listening to some ideas about teaching and the learning. In this episode Hughes explain why grades can be your best friend to motivate kids.
Hip Hughes History
Guessing on Tests
Multiple choice guessing strategies for state exams in the Social Studies. Specifically designed for the NY State Regents examinations but applicable to multiple disciplines.
Hip Hughes History
Classroom Management 101: 10 Tips for Teachers
Misbehavior, rowdy kids, foul language have destroyed teachers.... in this video I go over my top ten rules when discussing classroom management. You won't find these in a college edu textbook. Subscribe to HipHughes History, it's stupid...
Hip Hughes History
America and the Elite Theory of Democracy
Mr. Hughes lays a little lovin' on you in the form of a short summary of the elite theory of government. No not communist propaganda or the Democratic playbook of hamming up class warfare, just an honest analysis of the intention of the...
Curated Video
Unstoppable Part 3: Measuring Your Grit
Welcome to the finale of our Unstoppable series on In Control! In Part 3, we offer a tool to help you measure your level of grit and understand where you stand. We challenge you to visualize the path to your dreams and help you...
Hip Hughes History
The Liberty Amendments Explained: Article V Convention of States
A look at the Constitutional process of starting a Constitutional Convention by the states. And an straight forward focus on Mark Levin's proposed "Liberty Amendments" and the Convention of States pushing for a Constitutional Convention.
Curated Video
Is Mathematics INVENTED or DISCOVERED?
The tale of mathematics is as old as humanity. It has evolved from simple math, like counting cattle, to an intricate study of an object through abstract concepts that we know today. It was not until 600 BC, when civilizations settled,...
Vlogbrothers
Why Big Solutions Fail
In which Hank discusses loanword adaptation for two minutes in order to distract himself from the crushing reality of all of what he must do. One thing that I did not say in this video...that's just for you dear dedicated dooblydoo...
Vlogbrothers
Who Am I?! - Some thoughts on Personal Identity
It's difficult to understate the affect that other people's perceptions have on the kind of person you end up being. Of course, we also have tendencies and traits that are built into us, but mostly I think our selves are constructed out...
Vlogbrothers
I am an artist.
In which John unambiguously celebrates Sarah Urist Green and her wonderful book You Are an Artist, and considers what it means to make art and be an artist.
Vlogbrothers
A Thought is Not an Idea
I've heard people talk a good deal about how ideas are useless without implementation, but I don't hear many people talking about the fact that an idea isn't even an idea if it doesn't have both an objective and a path to achieve that...
Vlogbrothers
Doing Bad Things To Make Good Things Happen
I am very lucky to have found myself (and gotten myself) in a situation that is well suited to the quirks of my personality. But I still find myself sometimes unintentionally hurting people, annoying people, or letting people down even...