A House Divided: The Causes of the Civil War
Thomas Klise
The many causes of the Civil War centered around one overwhelming issue: slavery. This unit examines the economic, political, social, and moral imp...
View full detailsThe many causes of the Civil War centered around one overwhelming issue: slavery. This unit examines the economic, political, social, and moral imp...
View full detailsFor Algerian-born Albert Camus, World War II raised ethical doubts and questions about the “dilemma of existence itself.” In his plays, essays, and...
View full detailsIs a clause independent, or is it subordinate? How do subordinate clauses work in a sentence? How can we identify adjective clauses, adverb clauses...
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 detailsOften, the same young “Shakespeare” who composes manuscripts that glow with creativity will groan with frustration when confronted with the problem...
View full detailsGuy DeMaupassant fashioned many unforgettable stories and characters and, for himself, a place in history as the father of the modern short story. ...
View full detailsThis colorful presentation provides a fine introduction to the people who first explored the continent of North America and the reasons that prompt...
View full detailsThis program provides an introductory survey of Western art from antiquity to modern times. Basic techniques of art are explained, and individual a...
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 ...
View full detailsThere exist many and excellent reasons for calling William Faulkner the greatest American novelist of the 20th century. He approached his material ...
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 provides a touching portrait of Franz Kafka, whose influence on Western literature grows more intense with the passage of time. It off...
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 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 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 detailsNick Adams was the hero of Hemingway’s first work and the prototype of such later Hemingway heroes as Jake Barnes, Frederic Henry, and Harry Morgan...
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The 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 detailsIn 1823, as the threat of increased European colonization of Central and South America loomed large, James Monroe delivered a solemn address to Con...
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 industrial revolution transformed the American worker from a proud craftsman to a lowly clog in a vast system. This unit vividly traces the his...
View full detailsIn the long story that is English literature there is no one quite like Charles Dickens, and his appeal to readers remains as strong today as it wa...
View full detailsThis four-part series uses colorful and captivating artwork to introduce students to the important subject of mythology. The program includes the f...
View full detailsMany students feel an initial resistance to poetry that can be difficult to overcome. This unit debunks some popular modern myths about poetry’s “h...
View full detailsThis fascinating program examines such important American inventors as McCOrmick, Whitney, Jefferson, Franklin, Evans, Fitch, Morse, Bell, and Edis...
View full detailsThis two-part set is targeted for any student that needs help writing a straight, clean, intelligent paragraph. Sharply rendered with appealing car...
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 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 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 detailsThis program provides a bright and thoughtful analysis of five of Shakespeare’s most important and influential plays: Julius Caesar, Macbeth, Romeo...
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 detailsAleksandr Solzhenitsyn symbolizes the conscience of the Soviet Union, and his literature presents the inhumanity of any society that fails to value...
View full detailsThis program defines the important literary devices of simile, metaphor, paradox, symbolism, alliteration, assonance, and onomatopoeia. It also off...
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 detailsThe novels of John Steinbeck form an epic to the American loser, and the saga of Steinbeck’s losers is a chronicle of exile and hardship. Out of th...
View full detailsThis popular and highly effective series offers a clear explanation of the writing process as an exercise in logical and ordered communication. The...
View full detailsTo many, Robert Frost might come across as a lyricist of nature, a 20th century James Russell Lowell. His stubborn traditional form, however, often...
View full detailsThis magnificent five-part series offers a look at the history of English literature from the 1600s to the 20th century. Through colorful photograp...
View full detailsThe 1930s dawned under the gray, depressive cloud caused by the 1929 stock market crash, a cloud that was to linger most of the decade. This unit e...
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 informative production analyzes the Bill of Rights, that most magnificent of American documents, as the formal declaration of American rights ...
View full detailsThis production highlights the fascinating beginnings of the original thirteen colonies, from the establishment of Jamestown, VIrginia in 1607, to ...
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...
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