What is Style?
Thomas Klise
This cartoon-style unit addresses that elusive element known as “style.” Rather than presenting a dry listing of “general principles,” the program ...
View full detailsThis cartoon-style unit addresses that elusive element known as “style.” Rather than presenting a dry listing of “general principles,” the program ...
View full detailsThis magnificent program provides a look at the emperors and politics, art and architecture, philosophy and popular culture of ancient Rome. Throug...
View full detailsDuring ancient times, the people of Greece enjoyed a culture in many ways more vibrant, more civilized, and more artistic than any we know today. T...
View full detailsThis colorful two-part production traces the history of ancient Egypt from its earliest settlers, and provides a close-up look at the important peo...
View full detailsFor too many students, learning the correct usage and placement of punctuation marks can seem an impossible chore. This popular six-part series tea...
View full detailsThis cartooned and colorful unit examines the history and function of the American political party. It explores the influence of political parties ...
View full detailsThis unit explains the history behind the Declaration of Independence and illuminates the beauty of its words. The first half of the production est...
View full detailsThis magnificent introduction to the Civil War explores the chronology, politics, and economics of the war of 2,000 battles. It characterizes the U...
View full detailsThis production highlights the fascinating beginnings of the original thirteen colonies, from the establishment of Jamestown, VIrginia in 1607, to ...
View full detailsStudents often need a great deal of repeated explanation to grasp firmly the concept of map reading. This two-part set uses sprightly cartoons alon...
View full detailsThis program provides a bright and thoughtful analysis of five of Shakespeare’s most important and influential plays: Julius Caesar, Macbeth, Romeo...
View full details“Show me a hero,” Scott Fitzgerald once said, “and I’ll write you a tragedy.” And while Fitzgerald’s life was as heroic as any he ever created for ...
View full detailsFour hundred years ago, there lived in England an actor, poet, and playwright named William Shakespeare. This superb two-part set offers a look at ...
View full detailsShakespeare’s Hamlet is a work of drama and movement, full of stalking ghosts and fencing matches, pirate ships and dark castles. Despite this cons...
View full detailsThis presentation of the life and works of George Orwell offers a portrait of a political writer whose major themes are man and his state, surely a...
View full detailsWhen The Great Gatsby appeared in 1925, it was hailed by T.S. Eliot as the first step forward in American fiction since Henry James, and the interv...
View full detailsGeoffrey Chaucer was the first major personality in English literature, and his accounts of the medieval world are unmatched by an historian. Part ...
View full detailsWorld War I opened with a dizzying rush in the summer of 1914 and soon Europe was plunged into its most destructive struggle ever. In 1917, Preside...
View full detailsWilliam Wordsworth is the greatest figure of the Romantic Age in English literature, and ranks with Chaucer, Shakespeare, and Milton as one of the ...
View full detailsThis program provides an in-depth discussion of the four basic types of point of view: omniscient, limited omniscient, first person, and objective....
View full detailsThis production reveals America’s Economic miracle that transformed the workbench of one day into the factory of the next. It shows how shrewd deve...
View full detailsThe War of 1812 signified the end of Colonial America, and firmly announced to the world that his new Republic could stand on its own. Fought on Am...
View full detailsPoetry can take many different forms – from the rolling and easy-to-memorize ballad, to the compact, suggestive haiku, to the artful rambling of fr...
View full detailsWhile the novel as a literary form has existed for only 300 years, there can be no thorough study of literature without an examination of this lite...
View full detailsThis program provides an introduction to the Constitution of the United States and, as such, to the general structure of American government. It di...
View full detailsThe French and Indian War involved the struggle between England and France for control over the eastern part of the North American continent. This ...
View full detailsThe rise of capitalism in the United States occurred when immigration and increasing prosperity created seemingly endless markets for goods and ser...
View full detailsBy 1840, there were more than five hundred abolitionist groups in America, including as members statesmen like Washington and Jefferson and poets l...
View full detailsThis unit seeks to acquaint students with figures of speech and how they work, with definitions of such writing tools as hyperbole, antithesis, iro...
View full detailsAleksandr Solzhenitsyn symbolizes the conscience of the Soviet Union, and his literature presents the inhumanity of any society that fails to value...
View full detailsForming the plurals of English singular nouns represents yet another case in which our fascinating language displays great diversity, if not always...
View full detailsThis fascinating program examines such important American inventors as McCOrmick, Whitney, Jefferson, Franklin, Evans, Fitch, Morse, Bell, and Edis...
View full detailsJane Austen is one of the few writers that is a favorite of both literary scholars and the reading public, and her six novels rank among the classi...
View full detailsThe United States Congress is the branch of the federal government with the primary and essential purpose of making laws. This program details the ...
View full detailsThe plot of a novel or story represents its structure, the mechanism that propels it from beginning to end. It is plot that keeps a reader turning ...
View full detailsThis program shows how phrases add richness and clarity to our language. It teaches the importance of phrases, their different uses, and the vital ...
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