Instructional Video4:26
Curated Video

Examining Theme

3rd - Higher Ed
Theme explores the concept of theme by defining examples of themes commonly found in literature.
Instructional Video12:08
Crash Course

The Handmaid's Tale, Part 1: Crash Course Literature 403

12th - Higher Ed
In which John Green teaches you about Margaret Atwood's speculative fiction novel, The Handmaid's Tale. John looks at some of the themes in this classic dystopian novel, many of which are kind of a downer. The world of Gilead that Atwood...
Instructional Video12:23
Crash Course

Ghosts, Murder, and More Murder - Hamlet Part I: Crash Course Literature 203

12th - Higher Ed
In which John Green teaches you about Hamlet, William Shakespeare's longest and most-performed play. People love Hamlet. The play that is, not necessarily the character. Hamlet is a Tragedy with a capital T (I guess I don't have to point...
Instructional Video15:58
Brainwaves Video Anthology

Elizabeth Watts Bromery - Teaching in the Global Pandemic - USA

Higher Ed
Elizabeth Watts Bromery, an English Professor at Broward County Public Schools, Florida, became an educator in 1990 as her parents raised her to equate education with social justice. She chose teaching to empower students to make...
Instructional Video13:34
Crash Course

Fate, Family, and Oedipus Rex: Crash Course Literature 202

12th - Higher Ed
In which John Green teaches you about one of the least family-friendly family dramas in the history of family dramas, Oedipus Rex. Sophocles' most famous play sees it's main character, who seems like he's got it all together, find out...
Instructional Video3:10
storybooth

Math Almost Destroyed Me In School

9th - 11th
By Jules | Subscribehttp://bit.ly/sstory @ybooth' target='_blank' rel='nofollow'>Subscribe | Record your story @ or our iPhone app for a chance to get animated....
Instructional Video1:34
Brainwaves Video Anthology

Mark Tredinnick "Soft Bombs"

Higher Ed
In 2020, Tredinnick was awarded the Order of Australia Medal for services to literature and education.Tredinnick’s other honours include two State Premiers’ Literature Prizes, The Blake and Newcastle Poetry Prizes, the ACU and Ron...
Instructional Video5:00
Brainwaves Video Anthology

Mark Tredinnick "The Godwit"

Higher Ed
In 2020, Tredinnick was awarded the Order of Australia Medal for services to literature and education.Tredinnick’s other honours include two State Premiers’ Literature Prizes, The Blake and Newcastle Poetry Prizes, the ACU and Ron...
Instructional Video2:52
Brainwaves Video Anthology

Mark Tredinnick "Gaudeamus Igitur"

Higher Ed
In 2020, Tredinnick was awarded the Order of Australia Medal for services to literature and education.Tredinnick’s other honours include two State Premiers’ Literature Prizes, The Blake and Newcastle Poetry Prizes, the ACU and Ron...
Instructional Video5:11
Brainwaves Video Anthology

Mark Tredinnick - Teachers Make a Difference - Barry Lopez

Higher Ed
In 2020, Tredinnick was awarded the Order of Australia Medal for services to literature and education.Tredinnick’s other honours include two State Premiers’ Literature Prizes, The Blake and Newcastle Poetry Prizes, the ACU and Ron...
Instructional Video3:45
Brainwaves Video Anthology

Mark Tredinnick "Lotus Pond"

Higher Ed
In 2020, Tredinnick was awarded the Order of Australia Medal for services to literature and education.Tredinnick’s other honours include two State Premiers’ Literature Prizes, The Blake and Newcastle Poetry Prizes, the ACU and Ron...
Instructional Video21:08
Institute for New Economic Thinking

Curriculum Reform & Rethinking Economics

Higher Ed
Mainstream economic theory has been increasingly questioned following the Global Financial Crisis of 2008. The disconnect between reality and theory manifested itself most clearly when the Queen of the United Kingdom pointedly...
Instructional Video2:26
Curated Video

Alice Walker

9th - Higher Ed
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.
Instructional Video28:44
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Comparing Hemingway to Young Adult Literature

7th - 12th Standards
Challenge groups to create a recommended reading list of contemporary young adult fiction that explores the same themes found in Ernest Hemingway's short stories and novels. After examining a list Hemingway created and a list put...
Instructional Video13:21
The School of Life

James Joyce

9th - Higher Ed Standards
James Joyce was not the first writer to use stream of consciousness, but the sensory experience in such novels as Ulysses and A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man was revolutionary in the literary world. Learn more...
Instructional Video
PBS

Pbs Learning Media: Crash Course English Literature: Invisible Man

9th - 10th
This week, we're on to reading Ralph Ellison's great novel about the black experience in America after World War II, Invisible Man. John will teach you about Ellison's nameless narrator, and his attempts to find his way in a social order...