Curated Video
Writing a Narrative: Part 2 Language Elements
An Introduction to narratives. Part 2 in our series 'Planning & Writing a Narrative'. This video explains common language elements such as noun groups, text connectives and use of adverbs.
Curated Video
Writing a Narrative: Part 3 Orientation
An Introduction to narratives. Part 3 in our series 'Planning & Writing a Narrative'. This video demonstrates how to plan and write an effective orientation (introduction).
The Learning Depot
Elements of Literary Fiction: Characters, Setting, Plot, Theme, and Point of View
Literary elements are the technical components in all narrative stories. They are the universal and essential elements of all narrative fiction. And all are integral to creating the basic structure of a story in an engaging, compelling,...
The Learning Depot
How to Write a Hook: 10 Ideas for Narrative, Expository, Persuasive/Argumentative Writing
A hook is a sentence or group of sentences that will capture or “hook” your reader’s interest and lure him or her to keep reading. The hook, also called the lead, will set the tone and mood for your essay and establish A hook can be a...
Schooling Online
English Essentials - Powering Through Prose - 'Big Picture' Questions in Prose Fiction Analysis (Stage 4, Years/Grades 7-8)
Welcome to the first lesson on Powering through Prose! This lesson will explore the ‘big picture’ elements of analysing prose fiction. Find out about narrative purpose, structure, setting, perspective and characterisation. You’ll...
Schooling Online
English Essentials - Powering through Prose - 'Big Picture' Questions in Prose (Stage 6, Years/Grades 11-12)
Welcome back to Powering Through Prose! In this lesson, we’ll unpack key elements of more advanced prose fiction, including narrative purpose, context, genre, structure, setting, narrative perspective and characterisation. Never fear -...
Brainwaves Video Anthology
David E. Kirkland - Critical Race Theory
David E. Kirkland is a transdisciplinary scholar of language, literacy, and urban education, who explores through the construct of literacy the intersections among language, race, gender, and urban youth culture. His work has also...
Amor Sciendi
"Power" by Adrienne Rich Explained
A close reading of Adrienne Rich's classic poem "Power"
Curated Video
Writing a Logical and Meaningful Conclusion in Narrative Texts
In this video, the teacher guides students through the process of writing a logical and meaningful conclusion for a narrative text. Using examples from familiar stories, the teacher explains how to answer key questions about character...
John D Ruddy
Why Do Some Forget WW1
An animated video commissioned by the United States World War One Centennial Commission to explore why World War 1 is often forgotten in USA by comparison to its other big wars.
Curated Video
Remembering the Civil War
No two Americans had the same experience of the Civil War – and everyone remembers it differently. Through the stories they told – and the artifacts that survived – various narratives emerged!
Amor Sciendi
Kara Walker: Fons Americanus
Kara Walker's fountain addresses public monuments and the stories they tell us about history.
Curated Video
Punctuating Coordinate Adjectives Correctly
In this video, the teacher explains how to punctuate coordinate adjectives correctly. The lesson provides examples and a two-part test to determine if adjectives are coordinate adjectives. Students are given practice exercises to...
Institute for New Economic Thinking
Narrative as Destiny: Steering Markets and Innovation to Serve Society
Tim O’Reilly, founder and publisher of O’Reilly Media, technology thought leader, and investor known to many as the “conscience of Silicon Valley,” brings a lens of storyteller to explore the role of technology and economics in today’s...
Institute for New Economic Thinking
D'Maris Coffman: Bringing History to Economics
This episode features grantee D'Maris Coffman of the Centre for Financial History talking about her organization's commitment to a New Financial History and what the fruits of their approach can tell us about modern debt crises and...
Curated Video
GCSE Secondary English Age 13-17 - Writing: Planning Creative Writing Part 3 - Explained
SchoolOnline's Secondary English videos are brilliant, bite-size tutorial videos delivered by examiners. Ideal for ages 13-17, they cover every key skill in English Reading and Writing that students need to master in clear and easy to...
Brainwaves Video Anthology
Richard Gerrig - Experiencing Narrative Worlds
Richard Gerrig, Ph.D. graduated from Stanford University. He is currently a Professor, Cognitive Science at Stony Brook University, Stony Brook, NY. Dr. Gerrig's research focuses on several theoretical issues in psycholinguistics...
Espresso Media
Controlling the Narrative: Mugabe's Tactics for Maintaining Power
This video explains how Mugabe neutralized the Nknomo threat, becomes president and tries to neutralize his people and control the media. He stopped freedom of speech and freedom of movement to maintain his ultimate power. CONTENT...
The Economist
#MeToo: is it destined to fail?
When Tarana Burke founded MeToo she had no idea it would become a global movement. A year after it swept around the globe, she considers why it's at a critical moment.
Brainwaves Video Anthology
Yohuru Williams - Rethinking School Reform
Described in Diverse Issues in Higher Education as “one of the most exciting scholars of his generation,” Dr. Yohuru Williams is the History Department Chair and the Director of Black Studies at Fairfield University in Fairfield, CT. He...
Oxford Comma
Chapter by Chapter (Never Let Me Go): Chapter Twelve
Welcome to the twelfth video in our chapter by chapter analysis of Kazuo Ishiguro's Never Let Me Go! In this video we'll look at possibles, dream futures, and the fact that the students are CLONES!
Brainwaves Video Anthology
Julia Prendergast - Teachers Make a Difference - Sudesh Mishra
Julia Prendergast’s novel, The Earth Does Not Get Fat was published in 2018 (UWA Publishing: Australia). Her short stories feature in the current edition of Australian Short Stories. Other stories have been recognised and published:...
Brainwaves Video Anthology
Christopher Davis - Creating the Narrative
Chris Davis is a teacher and tech innovation project coordinator at Colegio Nueva Granada in Bogota, Colombia. He is very interested in the John Dewey description of "experience" as not merely connecting to prior knowledge but existing...
Curated Video
GCSE Secondary English Age 13-17 - Reading: Identifying Key Ideas - Explained
SchoolOnline's Secondary English videos are brilliant, bite-size tutorial videos delivered by examiners. Ideal for ages 13-17, they cover every key skill in English Reading and Writing that students need to master in clear and easy to...