Cinquain Poetry reviews the elements of a cinquain poem and composes one that describes a person, place, or thing.

Using Notes and Visual Aids explores effective communication skills by reviewing how to effectively use notes and visual aids when giving a speech.

Drafting explores the important elements of the drafting step of the writing process.

Follow the Rules: Theme describes the central message that a character learns in a story, called the theme.

Author and independent scholar author Pankaj Mishra gives his views on whether the East and the West have a fundamentally different set of values.

In this math video we will learn how to find the quotient. We will review how to set up long division. We will determine how many times the dividend is divisible by the divisor. An exemplar solution is modeled and...

In this somewhat meta video, we're looking at a guide on how to do AI research at MIT from 1988, and discussing how my journey into AI research has aligned or diverged from this guide thirty years later. Plus, some things I wish I’d...

This video explores the ancient world's approach to developing and attributing scientific knowledge, focusing on key figures such as Galen and the systematization of knowledge in the second century AD. It highlights the collaborative and...

Author and independent scholar Pankaj Mishra describes how, just as a skillful novelist sheds light on the motivations of her protagonists, a questioning of the motivations of those in central positions of authority will help us better...

UC Berkeley historian and Byzantine specialist Maria Mavroudi describes how famous Greek writers were consciously imitated centuries or even millennia after they had lived, and how she was counselled to take the writer Lucian as her role...

Classicist Richard Janko, University of Michigan, relates how scholars have dated the Derveni Papyrus, found half-burned on the remains of a funeral pyre in 1962, to roughly 350 BCE, while he believes instead that the first version of...

Award-winning author Pankaj Mishra emphasizes the importance of exploring neglected aspects of history to find alternative models of coexistence beyond the nation state. By delving into the histories of multi-ethnic and multi-religious...

This video highlights the importance of firsthand experiences and direct interactions in understanding complex historical and cultural phenomena, particularly within the context of Islamic history and global history. Historian and social...

Historian Maria Mavroudi (UC Berkeley) reveals how a careful study of Arab-Greek bilingualism can shed important light on a wealth of societal values, including the very foundations of their systems of knowledge.

Plotting Points on a Coordinate Grid plots points on a coordinate grid by using ordered pairs.

Naming Points on a Coordinate Grid names points on a coordinate grid by their ordered pairs.

Limerick Poetry reviews the elements of a limerick and explains how to compose one.

¡Hola! In this video lesson, we're going to be talking about the "impersonal se" or "passive se".

Nobel Laureate Roger Penrose, University of Oxford, describes how, while he's not exactly aware of what exactly motivates him to write his popular books about physics, he clearly looks to Galileo as an inspiring role model.

Soon after the death of her first husband, Emma of Normandy married Cnut the Great of Denmark. This video delves into the political and personal dynamics of their marriage, as well as the peace and stability they brought to England....

This video will discuss the effects of scalars on vectors.

"Dividing Rational Numbers” will review the rules and procedures for dividing rational numbers.

The video “Regrouping and Carrying” explains how to use regrouping and carrying as part of the standard algorithm for adding two- and three-digit numbers.

The Star-Spangled Banner recognizes that “The Star-Spangled Banner” was written toward the end of the War of 1812 by reviewing the lyrics.