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Instructional Video5:44
Curated Video

How Did Americans in 1937 Respond to 'Of Mice and Men'?

6th - 11th
Buy my revision guides in paperback on Amazon*: Mr Bruff’s Guide to GCSE English Language https://amzn.to/2GvPrTV Mr Bruff’s Guide to GCSE English Literature https://amzn.to/2POt3V7 Mr Bruff’s Guide to ‘Macbeth’ https://amzn.to/2GxYO5p...
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Instructional Video2:45
Boulder Creek International

C.S. Lewis: Memories from a Student

3rd - Higher Ed
C.S. Lewis part 10 of 11: This video features a former student of C.S. Lewis, who shares her experience of attending his lectures at Cambridge in the late 1950s. She describes Lewis as a caring and engaging teacher who was passionate...
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Podcast6:07
Curated Video

James and the Giant Peach

Pre-K - Higher Ed
James and the Giant Peach is a classic fantasy and adventure story that explores friendship, family relationships, and the fortunes of a young orphan. James is living with his cruel aunts when a peach magically sprouts in the yard. When...
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Instructional Video3:39
Loughborough University

A Summary of The Waste Land by T.S Eliot

9th - 11th
Dr Oliver Tearle, an English lecturer at Loughborough University, discusses the key themes within The Waste Land, the most prominent of which is the breakdown – the breakdown of marriages and relationships, psychological breakdowns, the...
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Instructional Video46:55
Gresham College

Gresham's World: Global Traffic, Trade and the Metamorphosis of England

10th - Higher Ed
Global trade and traffic had altered 16th-century England beyond recognition, from food, fashion to language. How did people respond to this transformation? A lecture by Nandini Das, Professor of English Literature, University of...
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Instructional Video2:24
Gresham College

Why should we protect endangered languages?

10th - Higher Ed
Why should we protect endangered languages? Dr Mark Turin responds with the passionate reply that language is essentially connected to culture; that it is a part of who we are. If we are not interested in protecting and preserving this...
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Instructional Video3:35
World Science Festival

John Nash: A Beautiful Mind

6th - 11th
When talking about geniuses, the conversation inevitably strays towards topics of eccentricity, or even madness. One needs only to look at the lives of artists such as Vincent Van Gogh and Mark Rothko, or to mathematician John Nash...
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Instructional Video4:21
Brainwaves Video Anthology

Robert Shetterly - Walt Whitman's Commandments

Higher Ed
Robert Shetterly was born in 1946 in Cincinnati, Ohio. He graduated in 1969 from Harvard College with a degree in English Literature. At Harvard he took some courses in drawing which changed the direction of his creative life -- from the...
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Instructional Video5:03
Brainwaves Video Anthology

Robert Shetterly - Americans Who Tell The Truth

Higher Ed
Robert Shetterly was born in 1946 in Cincinnati, Ohio. He graduated in 1969 from Harvard College with a degree in English Literature. At Harvard he took some courses in drawing which changed the direction of his creative life -- from the...
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Instructional Video1:52
Kids’ Poems and Stories With Michael Rosen

Eddie and the Nappy | POEM | Kids' Poems and Stories With Michael Rosen

Pre-K - 5th
Eddie and the Nappy | POEM | Kids' Poems and Stories With Michael Rosen Eddie hates having his nappy (diaper) put on, so I have to chase after him. You can browse and buy Michael Rosen Books here: https://www.michaelrosen.co.uk/books/...
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Instructional Video5:55
TED-Ed

How to Recognize a Dystopia

9th - 12th
Viewers need not be fans of dystopian literature to be engaged by a short video that traces the development of the genre from Plato to the present. Gulliver's Travels, The Time Machine, The Iron Heel, Brave New World, Animal Farm, and We...
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Interactive3:43
British Council

Twelfth Night

3rd - 7th Standards
Scholars experience Shakespeare's, Twelfth Night, with an engaging interactive. After watching the story, six activities extend the learning experience. Topics include characters, vocabulary, a sequence of events, comprehension, and...
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Interactive3:27
British Council

Romeo and Juliet

3rd - 7th Standards
An engaging video featuring William Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet is accompanied by six activities designed to reinforce vocabulary, story elements, and comprehension. Scholars match words to pictures, place events in sequential order,...
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Instructional Video1:18
PBS

Margaret Atwood Explains the Dystopia of The Handmaid's Tale

9th - 12th Standards
Talk about a teaser! A short video from the PBS series, The Great American Read, offers just enough information about Margaret Atwood's The Handmaid's Tale to fascinate viewers and have them reaching for the book. The author asserts she...
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Instructional Video12:42
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Crash Course

Of Pentameter & Bear Baiting - Romeo & Juliet Part I

9th - 12th
Thinking about using Romeo and Juliet with your honors or AP class? Consider showing this video as an introduction and overview to Shakespeare, Elizabethan theatre, and the play. The narrator's obvious scholarship, fast pace, and quirky...

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