Pupil outcome: I can explain the events of 'My Last Duchess' and the relevant contextual ideas that surround it. Key learning points: - The poem depicts a Duke showing an envoy a painting of his late wife. - The poem was written during...

Pupil outcome: I can explore how Stevenson presents attitudes to social class through Utterson in ‘Jekyll and Hyde’ Key learning points: - Social divide is a key idea here, highlighted because the reader sees Soho through the middle...

Pupil outcome: I can explain how Blake presents internal conflict in this poem. Key learning points: - Taken from Blake's 'Songs of Experience', the poem helps children understand the negative world they live in. - 'A Poison Tree'...

Pupil outcome: I can understand the importance of context and use tentative language to make assertions about Priestley's intentions.

Key learning po
ints:
- Contextual information can help to deepen an understanding of a...

Pupil outcome: I can explain how Stevenson uses narrative structure to present his ideas on duality in society. Key learning points: - Stevenson uses conventions of epistolary fiction to foreground the importance of letters and...

Pupil outcome: I can explain how characters in ‘An Inspector Calls’ conform to, or challenge, gender expectations. Key learning points: - Arguably, the male characters conform to Edwardian ideals of masculinity, emphasising strength,...

Pupil outcome: I can analyse how Dickens’ depiction of Scrooge in Stave 1 and 5 critiques common Victorian values. Key learning points: - Many Victorians embodied the personal values of individualism, self-reliance and a ‘Protestant'...

Pupil outcome: I can discuss the wider context of Romanticism in relation to the four Romantic anthology poems. Key learning points: - The Romantic period prioritises imagination and self expression over regulation and institutional...

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Dr. Boyd discusses the chemistry behind "Dr. Poison's" new chemical weapon in the new Wonder Woman movie.

In this latest episode of What The Theory?, I hope to provide an introduction to Marxism, culture and Marxist Literary Criticism and Theory. We're going to begin with the economic theories of Marx and Engels, particularly their base...

This video had a whole section in it where I complained about how annoyed I get when I see other people who don't consider their impact get really surprised when people get mad at them and how nice it must be to just be blissfully...

Today we visit artist Allison Smith in her Oakland, California studio. Her work focuses on historical reenactment and how the past influences the present -- and now she wants to know what YOU are fighting for. Sarah discusses how there...

One of the fundamental ideas of modern economics -- that people have rational expectations, an unbiased, statistically correct view of the future -- is, in reality, a simple hypothesis. And despite its prominence in recent economic...

Andrew Yang, entrepreneur and a Democratic presidential candidate, has made universal basic income a central issue of his campaign. Hear his perspective on guaranteed income for every American, and what legislative challenges that policy...

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The centrality of theoretical understanding

Randall Horton is the recipient of the Gwendolyn Brooks Poetry Award, the Bea Gonzalez Poetry Award, a National Endowment of the Arts Fellowship in Literature, and, most recently, the GLCA New Writers Award for Creative Nonfiction. He is...

Watch this lesson today to discover how Shakespeare explores the social expectations on men and women as presented in Hamlet. See the way that various characters challenge or conform to social conventions.

Along the way, learn how...

Today we discuss the conventions of art critique and explore the possibility of the internet as an arena for constructive critique. Can we do it?! Recommended reading: Matthew Goulish, 39 Microlectures: In Proximity of Performance (2000)...

Few take anarchism and the abandonment of organised government as a viable political goal.æYet in economics, capitalism is just such a leaderless anarchic system. Might a radically decentralised political system be more credible than we...

This English language learning video explains how to give and receive feedback and talk about what has happened using the present perfect tense.

CBC News looks at how the Toronto International Film Festival is helping more diverse movie reviewers in the spotlight this year.

Indian External Affairs Minister S. Jaishankar has criticized the perceived double standards of the international community in its response to conflicts, particularly India's stance on the Russia-Ukraine war. He highlighted India's own...