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Beethoven's darker side is contrasted with his sense of humor in the development of Movement 4 of his String Quartet Opus 18, No. 3 in D Major. In the final episode of his musical education series, Maestro George Marriner Maull revisits a number of previously presented musical devices, such as sequence, that are found in the work. He explains the sonata form's ternary components - exposition, development, and recapitulation - and analyzes components...
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Music and acting…there was a time when they were inseparable. But today we have divided these two great art forms and we only put them together in the opera and the musical. How does the music influence an Actor’s work? Does the word lead the music or does the music lead the word? Just how does an Actor work through a song?
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As the famous acting teacher Robert Lewis said, “The problem with acting is that the better you do it, the more everyone thinks they can do what you do.” Never has this been clearer than in film acting. Film acting is not like operatic singing or ballet dancing, which easily proves to the audience that the performers can do things that the viewer cannot. On the contrary, film acting is based on creating people that seem real, just like you and...
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This program explores essential literary terms while analyzing classic works of literature. What is a narrative? What are its most common parts? What does plot refer to in a story? What is tone and mood? How does a writer use them to affect the story and the reader? How does setting work in a narrative?What is a character in a story? What are some of the ways we have to understand them? The answers to all of this are covered in depth with detailed...
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The Standard Deviants go back to the beginning—the beginning of your paper. Learn how to knock your reader's socks off with cool openers that grab them from the very first line! Check out the subtle connecting power of transitions! We'll wrap it up with a discussion of the necessities of revising and rewriting.
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As much as 80 percent of the English vocabulary has been borrowed from other languages. Words enter the language when English speakers interact with people—through exploration, trade, empire building, education, the arts, and technology—who speak other languages. This program investigates the wealth of English words and phrases stemming from Indian, Greek, Latin, and Japanese origins, as well as the influence of English on other languages. Packed...
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Students need to understand the power of poetry, the way it can crack issues wide open and start discussions or help a writer address personal problems that can be reflected in a universal way, so they not only help themselves, their poetry may actually help others as well.That’s the power of poetry: to give voice to the voiceless, to give power to the pen, and to allow students to write freely. But this takes bravery both from the student writers...
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An adaptation of the popular Michael Frayn stage-play based around a strange trip the German physicist Werner Heisenberg made to Copenhagen in 1941 to see his Danish counterpart Niels Bohr. Old friends and close colleagues, they had revolutionized atomic physics in the 1920s with their work together. But now the world had changed and the two men were on opposite sides in a world war. The meeting was fraught with danger and embarrassment and ended...
12) For Newly Named U.S. Poet Laureate, the Power of Poetry Is Opening Ourselves to Others (6/14/17)
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Tracy K. Smith, a writer and teacher, is taking on a very public role as the nation's poet laureate. Jeffrey Brown sits down with Smith to discuss how language can be a tool of revelation, her reflections on race in America, her teaching philosophy, and why we still need poetry.
13) Playing Period
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Where do the eyes look? How are the feet placed? Director Roger Held presents detailed instruction for playing roles in a variety of theatrical styles. Each section in the series contains lavish costumes and props to help teach movement, manners, and use of period properties.
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This program explores essential literary terms such as symbolism, allegory, onomatopoeia, paradox ,and pun while analyzing classic works of literature. These terms are covered in depth with detailed graphics, engaging examples, and exciting video. On-screen multiple-choice reviews at the end of each segment reinforce important concepts and make learning fun.
15) Getting Started
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This clip explains how to plan and research using the 5 Es: engage, explore, explain, elaborate, evaluate.
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This program explores essential literary terms such as metaphor, simile, allusion, personification, and hyperbole while analyzing classic works of literature. These terms are covered in depth with detailed graphics, engaging examples, and exciting video. On-screen multiple-choice reviews at the end of each segment reinforce important concepts and make learning fun.
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More than 50 people were shot during the holiday weekend in Chicago. Often, when we talk about the city—and its school system—we hear about too much violence and too little money. Jeffrey Brown talks to poet laureate Juan Felipe Herrera about his new project, which gives Chicago students the opportunity to create meaningful works about their lives and the challenges they face.
18) Handwriting Tips
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This engaging clip provides clear and precise instructions to students who wish to develop fluency and neatness in their handwriting. A difficult skill to master, handwriting requires practice of simple, repeatable exercises such as those presented in this program. Left-handed writing is also addressed, with useful tips accompanied by detailed demonstrations.
20) Basic Literary Terms, Volume 7: Understanding Poetry—Alliteration, Assonance, Consonance, Free Verse
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This program continues to explore both the history and the essential components of poetry introduced in Volume 6. After viewing, students will understand alliteration, assonance, and consonance in connection to rhythm/meter and rhyme as they discover free verse as an artistic reaction against the poetry forms covered previously and as the dominant poetic form of our time. Classic works of poetry are presented along with detailed graphics, engaging...