Introduce readers to the great Jay Gatsby with a short video from the American Masters series. Narrators analyze how Fitzgerald's choice of narrator and point of view create the dreamlike qualities and near-mythic status of Jay Gatsby.

Readers of Toni Morrison's Beloved share their reasons for why the painful and powerful narrative should be on the list of books for the Great American Read program.

Viewers get some tips on how to create suspense in their writing from a short video that draws on examples from Poe's "The Tell-Tale Heart," Daphne du Maurier's Rebecca, and even Oedipus Rex.  Remember: It's not what happens but...

A dimensional resource teaches viewers to recognize 2-D views of 3-D objects and how to match nets with their 3-D figures. Individuals draw different views of three-dimensional objects including views from the front, side...

Watch and learn all about camera angles, what they mean, and how they help covey emotion and point of view. A short film is used to demonstrate four different camera angles, each scene is cut to reveille a fact about the angle just seen....

This tutorial focuses on shifts in topic and point of view in writing using two videos. The first video defines shifts in writing, how to indicate a shift in topic by using transition words, subheadings, or a change in font, how to...

This video lesson focuses on the key elements of writing a narrative: point of view, tone, reflective statement, pacing, emphasis, and cohesion. W.9-10.3,3a, 3b, 3c, 3e Narratives, W.11-12.3,3a, 3b, 3c, 3e Narratives

This video provides an examination of bias and point of view and why this is an important skill to know when studying his/her story. [5:30]

Notes describing a three-step process to analyze the impact of the point of view on a literary text. Notes can be both read and listened to.

In this lesson, you will learn how a complex character is developed by contrasting that character's perception of themselves with the perception of others. [7:03]

In this lesson, you will learn how to think about the choices an author made by asking "Why did the author choose to write it this way instead of that way?" [2:41]

In this lesson, you will learn how to determine the author's point of view by analyzing key phrases in a section of text. [5:04]

In this lesson, you will learn to write in an objective tone by editing point of view. [5:36]

In this episode, John Green discusses Virginia Woolf's modernist novel, To the Lighthouse. Let's face it. You're not reading To the Lighthouse for the plot. There's not a whole lot of plot, unless you count the tension about the beef...

In this lesson, you will learn how the point of view affects the meaning of the story by identifying when a narrator is reliable and when he is unreliable. [8:20]

In this lesson, you will learn how to determine the author's point of view by analyzing character descriptions and character actions. [6:55]

In this lesson, you will learn how to clearly introduce a point of view in a persuasive letter by organizing different pieces of information into an introduction. Login gives access to a slideshow as well. [5:19]

In this lesson, you will learn to orient the reader by establishing a situation and introducing a narrator. Login gives access to a slideshow as well. [5:18]

What is a literary element? Find the answer in this video segment that highlights the personal and artistic life of Walt Whitman.

Learn about the treaty that established the Wind River Reservation and the two tribes that inhabit it, the Northern Arapaho and Eastern Shoshone. Included is a lesson plan and discussion guide. [4:18]

Tribal Government on the Wind River Reservation is in a state of flux. In the accompanying lessons plans (found in the Support Materials), learn how the Eastern Shoshone and Northern Arapaho tribes govern their people, and the...

This slide show tutorial provides an introduction to the narrator in fiction including the types of narrators.

This lesson introduces point of view in fiction.

A flipped lesson identifying the concepts of historical interpretation with a specific focus on point of view and bias. [8:00]