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Grammar tips for students

Using nouns & pronouns
2008
Pinpoints common questions about nouns and pronouns, which include everything from identifying nouns to writing and using possessive nouns and pronouns to ensuring pronoun-antecedent agreement.

Finding Neverland

2005
Well-known playwright James M. Barrie finds his career at a crossroads when his latest play flops and doubters begin to question his future. Then by chance he meets a widow and her four adventurous boys. Together they form a friendship that ignites the imagination needed to produce Barrie's greatest work. Traverses both fantasy and everyday reality, melding the difficulties of adult life with the spellbinding allure and childlike innocence of the boy who never grows up.

Dropping in on Romare Bearden

2007
Puffer the puffin hosts an animated visit with twentieth-century American artist Romare Bearden, providing information about the artist's life and career. Includes full-sceen images and analyses of selected Bearden works.

Dropping in on Grandma Moses

An animated introduction to the life and work of folk artist Anna Mary Robertson Moses, known as Grandma Moses, who did not begin painting until she was seventy years old, that discusses her life and the stories behind some of her most popular works.

Brain and nervous system

2004
Provides information on the functions of the brain and nervous system, looking at how they work together to send messages to all parts of the body, and discusses the link between the nervous system and the senses.

Bizet's dream

2002
A twelve-year-old girl in 1875 Paris, whose father is a soldier stationed in Seville, learns the story of Carmen the gypsy from her piano teacher, composer Georges Bizet.

Bach's fight for freedom

2002
Johann Sebastian Bach, the chapel organist for Duke Wilhelm, is already frustrated when the duke assigns him a servant he is sure is a spy. Young Frederick, however, is a free spirit like his master and they both know what it is like to not be able to follow one's dreams.

Artists of pop art

Andy Warhol, Wayne Thiebaud, Roy Lichtenstein
2004
Showcases masterworks by three painters of the pop art, including Lichtenstein, Thiebaud, and Warhol, providing details about their individual styles, techniques, and subjects, and challenging viewers to identify the artist of featured paintings.

Artists of line and color

Henri Matisse, Paul Gauguin, Raoul Dufy
2004
Showcases masterworks by three painters of line and color, including Dufy, Gauguin, and Matisse, providing details about their individual styles, techniques, and subjects, and challenging viewers to identify the artist of featured paintings.

Sybil

1976
Dramatizes the story of Sybil Dorsett, a young woman whose childhood traumas led to her developing multiple personalities.
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