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How to calculate Mean and Standard Deviation
By YouTube
YouTube presents How to calculate Mean and Standard Deviation, an educational video resource on math.
Common Core Literature Standard 4: The meanings of words and phrases affect the text and tone
By OnDemandInstruction
This video covers reading strategies for finding the meaning of words and the effects of word choices in a text. In particular it analyzes how language can establish a text's setting and tone.
Oxymoron Song by Melissa
By GrammarSongs by Melissa
The video is a memory tool to help students understand and retain examples of oxymorons.
Explicit and Implicit Meaning in Text
By mrsniradale
This video explains the difference between explicit and implicit meanings within a text and illustrates how using inference can help the reader determine textual meaning. [This video features text only; there is no narration.]
The Extraordinary Life of Helen Keller
By Smithsonian Channel
Author, activist, and advocate, Helen Keller accomplished remarkable feats throughout her life, one of which includes being the first deaf and blind person to earn a college degree.
Critical Thinking - Standards of Thought - Part 2
By CriticalThinkingOrg
Dr. Richard Paul defines the universal standards with which thinking may be "taken apart" evaluated and assessed. Excerpted from the Socratic Questioning Video Series.
Protagonists
By OnDemandInstruction
This video clearly defines the protagonist of a narrative, the "good guy" as opposed to the antagonist, the "bad guy". It explains how to identify a protagonist and to identify with this character while reading a story.
Reading Comprehension: Short Story Recap -- The Most Dangerous Game
By Educator
After introducing the story The Most Dangerous Game, this video introduces its themes and characters.
"East of Eden" CHARACTERS
By 60 Second Recap
If the dozens of characters in "East of Eden" are making you crazy, this video can help. Here are two clues. First, most of the characters in Steinbeck's story fall into one of two categories: Basically good or basically bad. Second, all the characters in "East of Eden" are connected in some way to Adam Trask.