Khan Academy: Worked Example: The Happy American

Combine literature and history with the poem "The White Man's Burden" by Rudyard Kipling. Pupils read the poem and answer four questions about the text. 

American dream or American nightmare? The Great Gatsby comes under scrutiny in a Crash Course on F. Scott Fitzgerald’s story of the Jazz Age, its glitter and its ash heaps. The narrator’s focus in Part I of the two-part series, are...

The purpose of this video is to demonstrate how to approach reading and answering questions using an example from the critical analysis and reasoning skills section of the MCAT. [27:52]

The purpose of this video is to demonstrate how to approach reading and answering questions using an example from the critical analysis and reasoning skills section of the MCAT. [20:24]

The purpose of this video is to demonstrate how to approach reading and answering questions using an example from the critical analysis and reasoning skills section of the MCAT. [15:09]

The resource from Khan Academy provides information about the SAT. This resource provides an overview of the SAT Writing and Language test.

Young people played significant roles in the Civil Rights movement. Class members examine the contributions of Barbara Johns, Claudette Colvin, Mary Louise Smith, and the children of Birmingham,...

David and Paige, KA's resident grammarians, introduce a new piece of punctuation: the apostrophe!

Paige introduces a piece of punctuation called the semicolon; this punctuation can link closely related independent clauses together in a sentence.

How do writers use the interaction between elements like characterization and setting to create meaning? Readers of "A Worn Path" create a series of comic book-style graphics of Eudora Welty's short story and reflect on how Welty...