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Gwendolyn Brooks
The first African-American woman to win the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry, Gwendolyn Brooks wrote about the hardship and struggles of ordinary people.
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Ray Bradbury
Awarded a Pulitzer Prize Special Citation, recognizing a lifetime of influential literary works, Ray Bradbury wrote from a desire to “live forever”. Through sci fi, fantasy, horror and mystery to themes of death, loneliness and the dark...
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Shirley Jackson
A master of the macabre, Shirley Jackson explores the creepy underbelly of domestic life, with a sharp focus on the challenges that women face.
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Alice Walker
As the first Black woman to win the Pulitzer Prize for fiction, Alice Walker helped to bring the Black experience to readers across the globe. A true trailblazer, her work continues to entertain and enlighten.
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Multiple Plot Lines
“Multiple Plot Lines” will explain how to write a story using multiple plots.
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Theme, Setting & Plot
Theme, Setting & Plot explains how the structure of the text contributes to its theme, setting, or plot.
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Central Idea of Informational Text
Central Idea of Informational Text identifies and explains details in an informational text that support a given theme or central idea.
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Text Structure and Genre
Text Structure and Genre shows how knowledge of the structure of a text can determine the genre of the text.
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Exploring Long Vowel Sounds
Did you know that vowels are super friendly? They love to introduce themselves by their loonnnnggg vowel sound names! Most letters only have one sound, but vowels are unique. This video explores all the long vowel sounds and how we spot...
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Theme and Motivation
“Theme and Motivation” will explain how character motivation impacts the theme of a story.
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Romantic Movement
This video discusses the influences and philosophies of the American Romantic movement, using examples from poetry of the time.
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Follow the Rules: Theme
Follow the Rules: Theme describes the central message that a character learns in a story, called the theme.
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Five Themes of Geography
Five Themes of Geography identifies the five themes of geography by examining location, place, human-environment interaction, movement, and region.
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Author’s Style
Students will learn about different aspects that go into creating an author’s unique writing style.
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Theme
“Theme” will help students evaluate the concepts of theme and main idea within a piece of literature.
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Google Forms Fundamentals: Adding Headers, Images & Videos
Participants will understand how to add native assets like photos, graphics and images to enhance their presentation
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Google Forms Fundamentals: Creating multiple choice questions
Learners will get an overview of their question options & willl understand how to configure and add multiple choice questions
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Theme:A Guilty Conscience
Theme:A Guilty Conscience demonstrates understanding of theme by identifying an example of theme found in the short story, A Guilty Conscience.
Music Matters
Using a Slow Moving Theme with Cantus Firmus - Music Composition
We explore how to write a free moving line over a sustained melody presented in long notes. The example here uses the first two phrases of “Happy Birthday to you” set as a cantus firmus in long notes in the left hand, while the right...
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Poetry Interpretation
A video entitled “Poetry Interpretation,” which demonstrates the process of reading a poem to interpret its message.
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Theme Collage
This is a video entitled “Theme Collage” which models how to determine the theme of a complete literary text.
R Programming 101
Lollipop Graph using ggplot.
If you're interested in Data Visualization then you've come to the right place. Ggplot (or ggplot2) is an extremely powerful package used in R programming to develop plots and graphs. A lollipop graph is an excellent example of how you...
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Advanced ggplot #2 - create beautiful plots and graphs using R programming.
This is my second advanced ggplot video that explores using R programming to create facets. Data visualisation is an important part of data analysis and communicating your findings. Ggplot2 is an incredibly powerful tool for data...
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Advanced ggplot (episode #1)
If you are doing data visualisation with ggplot the you'll find this video useful. ggplot2 is one of the tidyverse packages and is used to create graphs and plots. Data visualization is an important part of both understanding and...