Teaching Without Frills
Editing Your Writing For Kids - Grammar, Punctuation, Capitalization, Spelling
In this video, you'll learn how to edit your writing for conventional grammar, punctuation, capitalization, and spelling!
Curated Video
Punctuation in Dialogue: Adding Quotation Marks
In this video, the teacher explains the importance of using punctuation correctly in dialogue. They provide examples and guide the viewers through the process of adding quotation marks to indicate what characters are saying. By following...
Curated Video
Using Abstract Nouns to Strengthen Your Writing
This video is a lesson for students on using abstract nouns in their writing. The teacher explains the difference between abstract and concrete nouns and provides examples. The students are then given practice identifying abstract nouns...
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How to Correctly Pronounce "-ism" (tourism, prism, etc)
Are you making this very common mistake? Many non-native English speakers incorrectly pronounce the suffix "-ism". Watch this video to learn how to say it correctly!
SciShow
SciShow Quiz Show: Eons Edition!
Hank Green presides over this battle between the other two hosts of Eons. They know dinosaurs, but how much do they really know about industrial grease?
NativLang
Semitic's vowel-smuggling consonants - History of Writing Systems #9 (Pointing & Matres Lectionis)
Semitic languages like Hebrew and Arabic evolved a unique way to write vowels... with consonants! See how in this episode of Thoth's Pill: an Animated History of Writing. You're back in the ancient Middle East, where seemingly everyone's...
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Why Do I Write My Roman Numerals Wrong?
Alright, folks. It's time to address the controversy. Most people write things one way, but I write it a slightly different way so now we must do battle. Roman numeral analysis actually has a pretty long and interesting history, though,...
IT'S HISTORY
The Power of Sex - Cleopatra, Caesar and Mark Antony l HISTORY OF SEX
Cleopatra, the most famous queen of Egypt, reigned as last female pharao. She fell for the powerful Roman statesman Julius Caesar and her son Caesarion is said to have been their illegitimate son. After his assassination she would form...
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How To Write A Four Chord Loop
Four-chord loops are easy, right? Well, not necessarily: Simplicity can be deadly, after all. It's true that you don't have a lot of decisions to make, but you also don't have anywhere to hide, so making an entire song work with just...
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The Secret To Writing Lyrics
Lyrics are one of the most important aspects of songwriting: They're the first thing most people listen to, and they convey your song's story more clearly than anything else. But they're really hard, right? Language is so complicated and...
Curated Video
Personal Narrative: Transforming the Draft into the Final Copy
Mr. Griot works to revise, edit, and add details to a personal narrative. He then models writing the final copy of a personal narrative.
Brainwaves Video Anthology
José B. González - The Art of Flipping
Jose B. Gonzalez is one of the most sought after speakers in the U.S today. He was born in San Salvador, El Salvador and immigrated to New London, Connecticut at the age of eight. He knew no English and now holds a Ph.D. in English. A...
Curated Video
Curators on Camera: The first major book printed in Britain
‘It represents the moment when printing with movable type finally arrived in Britain.’ Curator Adrian Edwards shares the Flemish link behind William Caxton's first printing of The Canterbury Tales and why this book is so significant in...
Langfocus
The Complexity of Kanji
This video is all about Japanese Kanji and some of their features and complexities that make them both mystifying and fascinating. Special thanks to Will Groundwater for his help with research and writing for this video. Until now I've...
Brainwaves Video Anthology
Maria Mazziotti Gillan Daddy, We Called You
Maria Mazziotti Gillan is a recipient of the 2014 George Garrett Award for Outstanding Community Service in Literature from AWP (Association of Writers & Writing Programs), the 2011 Barnes & Noble Writers for Writers Award from Poets &...
Brainwaves Video Anthology
Maria Mazziotti Gillan - Teachers Make a Difference - Mr. Weiss and Ms. Durbin
Maria Mazziotti Gillan is a recipient of the 2014 George Garrett Award for Outstanding Community Service in Literature from AWP (Association of Writers & Writing Programs), the 2011 Barnes & Noble Writers for Writers Award from Poets &...
Brainwaves Video Anthology
Maria Mazziotti Gillan - 'What Did I Want'
Maria Mazziotti Gillan is a recipient of the 2014 George Garrett Award for Outstanding Community Service in Literature from AWP (Association of Writers & Writing Programs), the 2011 Barnes & Noble Writers for Writers Award from Poets &...
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The Secret Structure Of Children's Music
Try 2 months of Skillshare for free! http://skl.sh/12tone5 There's all sorts of music out there, but one genre that probably doesn't get enough attention is the songs that we sing for children. It's easy to write them off as simple...
IT'S HISTORY
And then came Genghis Khan - Sorrow of the Song Dynasty l HISTORY OF CHINA
The Song dynasty is often described as an early modern economy. It marked a lot of economical changes from previous dynasties. Starting with the decentralisation of power and reduced economical involvement, it brought on industrial...
Brainwaves Video Anthology
Yolanda Sealey-Ruiz - Teachers Make a Difference - Dr. Suzanne Carothers
In courses such as The Teaching of Writing, Writing Non-Fiction, and Teaching English in Diverse Social/Cultural Contexts, Sealey-Ruiz, who started her career as a high school English teacher in 1993, seeks to “guide teachers in creating...
Brainwaves Video Anthology
Yolanda Sealey-Ruiz - Teacher as Interrupter
In courses such as The Teaching of Writing, Writing Non-Fiction, and Teaching English in Diverse Social/Cultural Contexts, Sealey-Ruiz, who started her career as a high school English teacher in 1993, seeks to “guide teachers in creating...
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The Surprising Enemy Of Good Songwriting
Is musical cleverness a double-edged sword? Try CuriosityStream free and get Nebula included: http://www.curiositystream.com/12tone and use promo code "12tone" Writing good songs requires a lot of practice and experience, but if you...
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The Weirdest Music Fight I've Ever Caused
Who knew anyone cared that much about augmented 6ths? The first 500 people to go to http://skl.sh/12tone22 get two months of free premium membership absolutely free! So a while back I caused a bit of a stir in music theory twitter by...
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Understanding Heart-Shaped Box
When it came time to write the follow-up album to Nevermind, Nirvana decided they were done playing games. In Utero is a hard-hitting, vulnerable, angry, noisy, personal album, one that couldn't care less about marketability, and one of...