English Stills from our new series Know Your Poetry What is poetry all about? How can we make sense of it? What are the main poetic forms? This comprehensive series helps students to boost their poetry knowledge and appreciation in a light-hearted and user-friendly manner. Dedications Poems can be almost as tasty as cheese. Almost. Discover why in this entertaining and fact-filled introduction to understanding the purpose, tone and structure of poetic dedications. With an emphasis on various types of ode and a close analysis of a classic elegy, this celebration of dedications will engage and equip students embarking on a poetry study. ACELT1630, ACELT1637, ACELT1642, ACELT1643 2016 10 min Australia CC AR Ode and Elegy Analysis Write Your Own Elegy 3 2016 ClickView
Dramatic Monologues What do stand-up comedians and Victorian poets have in common? More than you might think! Discover the ancient roots of the poetic form of dramatic monologue and all its very special qualities. Then, dive into the Victorian era and plumb the depths of Tennyson and Browning s most famous dramatic monologue poems. ACELT1642, ACELT1643, ACEEN005, ACEEN022 and more! 2016 9 min Australia CC AR Annotation Activity Play the Part Narratives Bet you thought you d never find these words in the same sentence: sharks, tuxedoes and poetry. In this rapid-fire look at narrative poetry, you will. Thankfully, it s also highly educational! Learn about the ancient origins of narrative poetry, its typical elements and popular forms like ballads, idylls and epic poems. Beloved classics including Beowulf, The Man From Snowy River and Paradise Lost are discussed. ACELT1630, ACELT1637, ACELT1642, ACELT1643 What s the Story? Create a Picture Book 2016 10 min Australia CC AR Short Form Poetry There are almost as many poetic short forms as there are bunnies, but that won t stop our presenters from trying to name all of them! This fun introduction to short forms offers both an overview and a close look at four forms: haiku, cinquain, limerick and triolet. Sample poems and specific information about their crafting will aid students in their study and appreciation of poetry. ACELT1623, ACELT1630, ACELT1637 I Can Haiku Create an Anthology 2016 9 min Australia CC AR 4 2016 ClickView
Sonnets No, they re not baby swans. Find out exactly what sonnets are and what they re for. Even better, dissect two famous ones ( Shall I compare thee to a summer s day ; How Do I Love Thee ) with the help of our two enthusiastic presenters. This in-depth look at the Petrarchan and Shakespearean sonnet forms offers students specific technical detail that is easy to grasp and apply in their studies. ACELT1642, ACELT1643, ACEEN005, ACEEN022 and more! 2016 9 min Australia CC AR Cloze the Deal Compare the Pair Unstructured Poetry Unstructured poetic forms are a lot like cat videos: they re unpredictable, people tend to love or hate them and they re full of clauses. This clip discusses the 19th century explosion of free verse poetry including famous pieces from Emily Dickinson and Walt Whitman; the phenomenon of spoken word (or performance poetry); and some common complaints against the multifaceted unstructured poetry genre. ACELT1637, ACELT1643, ACEEN005, ACEEN022 and more! Illuminating with Imagery War of Words 2016 10 min Australia CC AR 5 2016 ClickView
Bitesize Shakespeare Students can learn more about some of Shakespeare s most famous and intricate plays in this series of short and entertaining videos. A Midsummer Night s Dream There are many themes in A Midsummer Night s Dream. Explore the main themes of appearance and reality, and order and disorder - looking at how they affect characters and influence the story. ACELT1621, ACELT1620, ACELT1637, ACELT1640 and more! 2014 2 min UK AR PLUS Order and Disorder Macbeth Macbeth is a spooky horror story set in Scotland. There are gory bits. There are witches and spooky visions. Macbeth and his wife commit so many horrible crimes that towards the end even Lady Macbeth goes mad with the horror of it all. Explore how the themes of fate, ambition, and appearance and reality affect characters and influence the story. Fate Ambition 6 2016 ClickView
Much Ado About Nothing Much Ado About Nothing is a comedy set in Italy. It s about men and women, love, pretence and disguises. It s about how hatred can turn so easily into love, and love so easily into hatred. There s a villain that messes it all up for everybody, but like all good stories, the heroes win through in the end. Despite claiming to be about nothing, the themes covered in Much Ado About Nothing - love, conflict, and appearance and reality - are serious and complex even though the play is a comedy. Conflict Richard III Richard III is a play about evil, violence and murder. It charts the rise of Richard, Duke of Gloucester, a cold-blooded and dastardly villain who slaughters his family and even marries his victim s widow to become king. Explore the main themes of leadership, family and fate looking at how they affect characters and influence the story. Leadership Family and Blood Ties Fate 2014 6 min UK AR PLUS Romeo and Juliet If you ve heard of Romeo and Juliet, you ll probably know that it is a play about love. It s not all soppy nonsense though there s a good dose of duels, secret plots and tragic deaths too. The teenaged children of two warring families, Romeo and Juliet meet and fall in love. The play tells the story of their doomed attempts to be together. The most obvious theme in Romeo and Juliet is that of love, but Shakespeare invites us to also examine the importance of fate, death, honour, friendship and duality. Fate Duality 7 2016 ClickView
The Merchant of Venice The Merchant of Venice is a clever and controversial comedy. Bassanio, needs money to woo the beautiful heiress Portia. He asks his friend Antonio for a loan, but Antonio has invested his funds in ships overseas. The moneylender, Shylock, offers the cash on the condition that he will take a pound of Antonio s flesh if the loan is not repaid within three months. Explore the main themes of love, justice and money looking at how they affect characters and influence the story. Money Justice The Tempest The Tempest is a play about magic, betrayal, love and forgiveness. Prospero, a powerful magician, creates a storm, or tempest, that sets the scene for the play. There we see a plot to murder the King of Naples, a drunken scheme to kill Prospero and a romance between Miranda and the King s son, Ferdinand. Explore the main themes of empathy and forgiveness, freedom and nature versus nurture looking at how they affect characters and influence the story. Empathy and Forgiveness Freedom Nature versus Nurture 2014 6 min UK AR PLUS Twelfth Night Twelfth Night is a fast-paced romantic comedy with several interwoven plots of romance, mistaken identities and practical jokes. There s cross dressing, drunken pranks and a great deal of confusion, chaos and comedy. Even though it is a comedy, based on a day of partying, Twelfth Night still deals with some serious themes. Romantic love, family love and even the love of love are all presented, as is the question of appearance and reality. The foolishness of ambition is also prominently on display. Ambition 2014 6 min UK AR PLUS 8 2016 ClickView