Pupil outcome: I can develop my own response to 'The Unforgotten Coat’. Key learning points: - Readers can form impressions of characters based on what they say, the actions they perform and their appearance. - During the story,...

Catch-22 by Joseph Heller (recently the subject of a television adaptation with George Clooney in the role of the ruthlessly ambitious Colonel Cathcart for US streaming service Hulu) is one of the classic books of the twentieth...

Pupil outcome: I can develop my own response to 'The Girl of Ink and Stars’. Key learning points: - Being heroic is not reflected by a character's gender, age or other protected characteristic. - During a text, characters and their...

Pupil outcome: I can develop my own response to 'Danny Chung Does Not Do Maths'. Key learning points: - Character traits can be explored through the text’s illustrations or words used by the characters. - Friendships and relationships...

Pupil outcome: I can learn about the authors Atinuke, Roald Dahl and Ibtihaj Muhammad and develop a personal response. Key learning points: - An information text about an author provides information about their life, e.g. childhood,...

Until recently, scientists thought cannibalism was a rare response to starvation or other extreme stress. Well-known cannibals like the praying mantis and black widow were considered bizarre exceptions. But now, we know they more or less...

In which John Green returns to William Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet to explore the themes of true love, lust, and whether Romeo and Juliet were truly, deeply in love, or they were just a pair of impetuous teens. How exactly did Romeo...

In which John Green continues to teach you about Slaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut. (WARNING: When Slaughterhouse-Five was published, some of the crude language in the book caused controversy. We quote one mildly controversial line in...

Since at least 213 BCE, book burnings have been a reaction to the power of the written word. When roasting paper in a giant circle went out of style (at least in the intellectual sphere), the governments would take it upon itself to ban...

Floyd Cheung, Vice President for Equity and Inclusion and a professor of English and American Studies at Smith College, has edited several volumes highlighting forgotten and lesser-known Asian American writers, focusing on...

Novels like Passing by Nella Larsen, Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston, and the poetry of Langston Hughes were all written during this period and have become important pieces of the American literary canon. Still, when...

On May 1, 1517 — now referred to as Evil may Day — riots broke out in London as a response to an influx of immigrant workers. Eighty years later, a play was written that includes some of these events. The play, called Sir Thomas More,...

This episode is in response to the measles controversy, we discuss and highlight the re-emergence of Measles, as well as learning more about the history and implications of the illness

In this video we'll perform a reading, summary, and analysis of Edwin Arlington Robinson's poem, "Richard Cory." Written partly as a response to the Panic of 1893, "Richard Cory" challenges the typical notions of success and happiness.

"The Little Prince" is a timeless tale that explores deep themes of friendship, love, and the complexities of human nature through the whimsical adventures of a young prince who travels from planet to planet. As he encounters various...

Emily C. Nusbaum, Ph.D., is a postdoctoral research associate at the Yale Center for Emotional Intelligence. She is currently working on the Center’s Self-Regulation in Creativity project, funded by the Imagination Institute of the...

Welcome to our video series titled "New Economic Thinking." The series will feature dozens of conversations with leading economists on the most important issues facing economics and the global economy today.



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Ethical leadership depends upon transparent communication in organizational settings. This video looks at leadership ethics and values from a communication-based point of view and proposes a three-part model of ethical communication. 1....

Four Weddings and a Funeral made this poem THE funeral poem. But did Auden actually want it to be sad? And does that actually matter? We'll explore that question in our reading, summary, and analysis of W.H. Auden's "Funeral Blues."

Greetings to my brand new -itis. In which John discusses illness, and his experiences with it, and the way we imagine disease.

Benito Mussolini was a well known Socialist before World War 1. But the lead up to Italy's entry into the conflict caused a split between the Socialists and the pro-interventionist Fasci. During the war, Mussolini was sent to the Isonzo...

He is regarded as one of the greatest writers of the 20th century, but before that, he was an ambulance driver on the Italian Front in the Great War and also took part in the Spanish Civil War and World War