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This program explores both the history and the essential components of poetry. After viewing, students will understand how poets utilize rhythm/meter and rhyme in various forms to achieve the desired effect. Classic works of poetry are presented along 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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Go to the library, search cyberspace, and conduct surveys as the Standard Deviants gather the information needed to write a top-notch paper. Then we'll build the backbone of your ideas: the outline. These steps will lead you to your next challenge, the part that separates the writers from the scribblers: the rough draft.
23) Basic Literary Terms, Volume 7: Understanding Poetry—Alliteration, Assonance, Consonance, Free Verse
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English
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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...
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English
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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.
26) Playing Period
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English
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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.
27) Enter the Writer
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English
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Get ready to witness bold ideas, extreme penmanship, and some handy-dandy advice on how to write the perfect English paper as the Standard Deviants start you off on the writing process.
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English
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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...
30) Free-Writing
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English
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The Standard Deviants show you how to get started on your paper with two simple steps: defining the task and clarifying the assignment. Learn to free-write your topics, wow your audience, and get the feedback you need to write a grade-A paper.
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English
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This program identifies the characteristics of various storytelling genres, from thrillers to fantasy and science fiction. Students will encounter precise instruction on the features common to specific genres to assist them in creative writing and literary analysis. Delivered in a light-hearted tone, viewers will find themselves entertained and challenged to apply these principles to their writing.
35) Medieval Theater
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English
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This video traces the evolution and characteristics of the theater of the Middle Ages, looking at Everyman and The York Mystery Cycle and presents scenes from the medieval play Mary of Nijmegen.
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Robin Lane Fox concentrates on the titanic battles of the Greek gods against giants and monsters. He demonstrates how these stories were to emerge from seemingly disparate elements woven together byEuboean travelers and reveals how the Greeks very idea of divinity was shaped by the landscapes of the Mediterranean.
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Robin Lane Fox begins with the lost empire of Turkey whose myths of creation were to influence the Greeks. In Crete, he visits the birthplace of the supreme Greek god Zeus, and at Delphi he pinpoints the moment when Euboean tales were transformed into the great poetry of Hesiod and Homer.
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Influenced and educated by her parents, Frankenstein’s author, Mary Shelley, grew up in a world of radical artists and writers. Her immortal novel explores various themes of early-19th-century Romanticism. This clip looks at Mary Shelley’s background and major influences on her thinking and writing, giving students of English literature a broader understanding of the nature and significance of this notable work.