Instructional Video7:35
Cerebellum

The Elements Of Fiction - Understanding Theme's

9th - 12th
The Elements of Fiction - Ernest Hemingway, Mark Twain, Robert Louis Stevenson . these are just three of the renowned authors whose work is cited in The Elements of Fiction, which explores: Plot elements, character, conflict, flashback,...
Instructional Video1:21
Cerebellum

The Elements Of Fiction - Summary

9th - 12th
The Elements of Fiction - Ernest Hemingway, Mark Twain, Robert Louis Stevenson . these are just three of the renowned authors whose work is cited in The Elements of Fiction, which explores: Plot elements, character, conflict, flashback,...
Instructional Video9:46
Cerebellum

The Elements Of Fiction - Plot Structure And Types Of Narrative

9th - 12th
The Elements of Fiction - Ernest Hemingway, Mark Twain, Robert Louis Stevenson . These are just three of the renowned authors whose work is cited in The Elements of Fiction, which explores: Plot elements, character, conflict, flashback,...
Instructional Video16:04
The Learning Depot

Elements of Literary Fiction: Characters, Setting, Plot, Theme, and Point of View

12th - Higher Ed
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,...
Instructional Video9:01
PBS

The (Stephen) King of Horror Feat. Lindsay Ellis

12th - Higher Ed
Few writers have had the sheer staying power, popularity, and prolific output as Stephen King. From insatiably flesh-hungry clowns and sentient cars to telekinetic teenagers and mystical gunslingers, if there’s one author who has taken...
Instructional Video4:46
Curated Video

Theme Collage

K - 8th
This is a video entitled “Theme Collage” which models how to determine the theme of a complete literary text.
Instructional Video3:41
Curated Video

Describing Settings

K - 8th
This is a video entitled “Describing Settings” which models how to identify the setting of a passage.
Instructional Video7:51
Curated Video

The Gothic in Great Expectations

6th - 11th
Professor John Bowen explores the gothic elements of Charles Dickens’s Great Expectations. Analysing the book’s use time and the past, repetition, violence, sexuality, identity, psychological tension and doubles, Professor Bowen provides...
Instructional Video3:29
Curated Video

A Midsummer Night's Dream 4.1 Interview: Bottom

6th - Higher Ed
This video provides an exploration of Act 4, Scene 1 of Shakespeare's "A Midsummer Night's Dream" through a fictional interview with the character Bottom. The video focuses on Bottom's experiences and insights following his enchanting...
Instructional Video12:32
PBS

To Kill, To Kill a Mockingbird?

12th - Higher Ed
One of the trademark texts of the American school system is Harper Lee’s 1960 novel To Kill a Mockingbird. For decades it has been widely read in high schools and middle schools as a key anti-racist text. But how did...
Instructional Video6:10
PBS

The Evolution of Science Fiction

7th - 12th Standards
How is it that science fiction writers have displayed the uncanny ability to predict the future? An informational video discusses the genre of science fiction and explains how it has developed. Discussions of specific texts, such...
Instructional Video3:14
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Flocabulary

The Importance of Setting in a Story

6th - 12th Standards
Where does it happen? When did it happen? These are two questions that play a key role in understanding the setting of a story. The fourth and final video in a Language Arts playlist uses a song to explain how the setting connects to...
Instructional Video6:03
Be Smart

The Physics of Space Battles

6th - 12th
Ready to take your class on a journey through space and witness epic battles? A video segment portrays the true way space battles happen, complete with the way Hollywood handles the lack of gravity, even while firing missiles at the...
Instructional Video3:15
PBS

Catch-22 by Joseph Heller

6th - 12th Standards
Narrators of a short video offer their rationale for why Catch 22 should be included in the Great American Read program. They touch on the key themes in Heller's satirical and sobering novel about Captain John Yossarian and the catch-22s...
Instructional Video
Other

Flocabulary: Five Elements of a Story

4th - 8th Standards
A music video [3:42] about the five elements of a story: setting, plot, characters, conflict, and theme. Includes downloadable student handouts.
Instructional Video
Sophia Learning

Sophia: Identifying Tone

9th - 10th Standards
This lesson focuses on how to identify the tone of a passage. It defines tone, explains how to identify positive, negative, and neutral tones, and demonstrates how to identify tone with both a literary and a non-fiction example. [5:14]