Topics covered: Verbals, adverbs, prepositions, conjunctions, interjections.
Subjects: English Language
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Examining the Sentence
Topics covered: Simple sentences, phrases, direct & indirect objects, compound sentences, dependent & independent clauses, complex sentences, sentence fragments.
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Agreeing with Grammar
Topics covered: Nouns as verbs, verbs as nouns, subject/verb agreement, noun/pronoun agreement, adjective/noun agreement, noun/article agreement
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Grammar Follies
Topics covered: Sentence fragments, comma splices, run-on sentences, tense shifts, vague pronoun references, faulty parallels, acceptable errors.
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The Lord of the Brush
Lord of the Brush is the biography of an artist who has had a major impact on the world through his illustrations of JRR Tolkien’s world. This is the story of a young man who, with little encouragement, stays true to his vision and becomes an international celebrity with his art. John’s story is brought to life with over 100 of his beautiful illustrations. The story is further dramatised with the music of Howard Shore and his Suite for Richard, performed by the London Philharmonic Orchestra.
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The Unique Oneness of Christian Savage
Christian Savage, a 12 year old farm boy, spends his childhood years with Nyadze, the son of his mother’s Zulu domestic worker. Growing up in vastly different cultures, the boys explore the delights of rural Africa – the land, the people and their religions. Doubts grow in Christian as he questions his destructive church until one day his friend’s beliefs are etched in his soul forever.
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Narrative Structures
Narrative Structures explores the necessary ingredients in writing better pieces of Narrative fiction. What are the better strategies for telling your story in a more interesting way? A must for students of Creative Writing. Topic Areas: what is a narrative, and how is it different to a story or a plot; setting. What do you need to set up a piece of narrative fiction; describing characters; thematic concern.; the three act structure explained, what is a three act structure, and how is it used?
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Persuasive Language
An informative and entertaining dramatization in which a young person, Kylie, learns some of the techniques of persuasive language at Roland’s School of Persuasion. Roland introduces the different techniques of persuasion, which Kylie then role-plays. Each of the following language techniques is illustrated with a short example : suggestive selling; emotive Language; connotations; analogies; generalizations; exaggeration; card-stacking.
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Exploring Genres
An imaginative and entertaining resource to help students understand genre and the different components of genre. When Scoop, an out-dated whodunit character from the 1940s loses his genre, he journeys through several different genres including a fairy tale, science-fiction, gothic, adventure, rap, and romance. This video explores: why do writers choose different genres; what are the components of each genre; setting; characters; style; and story-line.
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Film as Text
Topics include narrative conventions used by filmmakers in telling a story; narration: Narrator or through the eyes of a character; the Plot- the techniques used to express the plot in film; manipulation of time; shot construction and design; lighting; point of view; props and set dressing; sound design and music; the theme: metaphors and visual motifs; the characters and their development through a film; casting; wardrobe and makeup; shot construction; metaphors; editing: the expression of plot and character; resolution: How and why a film is resolved in a certain way.