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Curated Video
Emulating Murakami’s craft to write a descriptive opening
Pupil outcome: I can write an engaging descriptive opening paragraph using an omniscient perspective and extended metaphor. Key learning points: - Using an omniscient perspective allows the reader to be more immersed in a scene...
Curated Video
Exploring the importance of books and stories
Pupil outcome: I can consider why stories and their central themes might be important for society. Key learning points: - Stories have existed throughout human history. - Potentially, we might tell stories as a way of creating social...
Curated Video
Emulating the use of motifs in Brontë's 'Wuthering Heights'
Pupil outcome: I can emulate Brontë's use of motifs within my own writing. Key learning points: - Arguably, Brontë conveys the concept of exclusion through the descriptions of the windows in 'Wuthering Heights'. - Brontë uses the...
Curated Video
Considering the use of motifs in Bronte's 'Wuthering Heights'
Pupil outcome: I can explain and analyse Brontë’s use of the window motif in 'Wuthering Heights'. Key learning points: - Brontë uses a window motif throughout 'Wuthering Heights'. - Windows are a threshold space that might represent...
PBS
The Byronic Hero: Isn’t it Byronic? (Feat. Princess Weekes)
Edward Cullen. Han Solo. Killmoklknger. Lestat. What do all these characters have in common besides being heartthrobs? They share a common ancestor: the Byronic Hero. Brooding, sensual, violent, intelligent, and single-minded, the...
Schooling Online
English Essentials - Powering Through Prose - Narrative Style, Techniques & Figurative Language in Prose Fiction (Stage 4, Years/Grades 7-8)
Our second lesson will zoom into the finer elements of prose fiction. We’ll tackle narrative style, techniques and figurative language. You’ll discover a writer’s number one rule – show, don’t tell. Soon enough, you’ll have all the...
Schooling Online
English Essentials - Powering Through Prose - Narrative Purpose, Structure and Editing (Stage 5, Years/Grades 9-10)
Welcome back toPowering through Prose! In this lesson, we’ll explore the ‘big picture’ elements of prose fiction. Let’s dive into narrative purpose, structure, setting, narrative perspective and characterisation. We’ll refresh your...
Sophia Learning
Sophia: The Impact of Imagery
This lesson focuses on the impact of imagery in writing by adding "umph" to the text and engaging the audiences' five senses. It uses an example of a passage from "Wuthering Heights" and then the same passage with most of the imagery...
PBS
Pbs Learning Media: Wuthering Heights 3: Love or Revenge?
In this scene from the 2009 Masterpiece adaptation of Emily Bronte's Wuthering Heights, Heathcliff interrogates Cathy about how she has changed since her stay at the Linton's Thrushcross Manor. As we glimpse Heathcliff's darker side, we...
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Pbs Learning Media: Wuthering Heights 2: Heathcliff as Hero
This scene from Masterpiece'S 2009 adaptation of Emily Bronte's Wuthering Heights reveals Heathcliff's nature: romantic and rebellious. Mr. Earnshaw offers to buy Heathcliff-the orphan he adopted-a thoroughbred horse. (He has already...
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Pbs Learning Media: Wuthering Heights 1: On the Moors
This scene in the 2009 Masterpiece version of Emily Bronte's Wuthering Heights skillfully sets up not only the plot and characters (the rugged Heathcliff and the innocent Catherine Linton), but a distinct time and place: the Yorkshire...
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Pbs Learning Media: Masterpiece Wuthering Heights Collection
This is a collection of three videos from the 2009 MASTERPIECE version of Emily Bronte's "Wuthering Heights." Teaching materials are included.
Internet Multicasting Service
Harper Audio: Emily Bronte's "Wuthering Heights"
Four scenes from the novel are available for listening here. Available in Real Audio, .gsm, and .au formats.
British Library
British Library: Wuthering Heights: Who Is Heathcliff?
Professor John Bowen discusses the enigmatic Heathcliff, from his early appearance as a rejected child, to his return as a powerful and violent antihero. [3:46]
British Library
British Library: Wuthering Heights: Violence and Cruelty
Professor John Bowen explores Emily Bronte's extraordinary use of violence in "Wuthering Heights". [4:12]
British Library
British Library: Wuthering Heights: Fantasy and Realism
Professor John Bowen considers Emily Bronte's combination of fantasy and reality in Wuthering Heights and the way in which fairy tale and Gothic elements 'haunt the edges' of the novel.
British Library
British Library: Wuthering Heights: Landscape
Professor John Bowen discusses the harshness of the landscape around Haworth and the central part it plays in the writings of the Bronte sisters. [3:26]
British Library
British Library: The Brontes: Life in Haworth
Professor John Bowen and Ann Dinsdale discuss the poor sanitary conditions in Haworth in the 19th century and the mix of rural and industrial influences on the Bronte sisters and their writing. [4:04]