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Primary sources consist of  the actual thoughts or feelings that a person has recorded. If available, primary sources should be your primary s...

Every body paragraph should start off with a good topic sentence. Not to be confused with a Hot Topic sentence...which should only be used in parag...

Today's lesson is all about knowing your audience. Like how you shouldn't tell a fart joke to your teacher in your latest essay...no matter how muc...

In this lesson we'll subject you to some verbs and predicates. Each one is a necessary part of a complete breakfas—er...sentence.

Choosing words carefully is important. You may end up vexing the assemblage of citizens you're conversing with...or you might even just plain bore...

Amazing, awesome, funny, genius, scrumdiddlyuptious...we could go on describing this video, but maybe you should learn what sorts of words those ar...

ELA Drills, Beginner: Point of View 2. Identify what sort of narration is being used and which character's thoughts or feelings are being revealed.

ELA Drills, Beginner: Textual Analysis 3. What can you infer from the sentence in the video?

Shmoop worked real hard to make a video for you about narrative poetry. But they couldn't think of any rhymes, and...got mad enough to throw a tree?

ELA Drills, Beginner: Meanings 1. Use context clues from the text to find the answer.

We're about to shower you with knowledge about similes and metaphors. Oh, and please be aware, that was a just a metaphor. This video will not act...

Quotes are a great way to provide evidence that backs up your ideas. You can quote us on that.

Today, we're covering tones. No, note the sounds your phone makes when somebody calls you. We're talking about the emotional feel of a piece of wri...

In this video, we'll learn about how not to jump to conclusions. They should be well thought out and carefully composed, just like the rest of your...

Personally, we like to be bowed to and have our rings kissed but...oh, we're talking about introductions in your writing. Hm. Better watch the video.

This is a video that will teach you about relative pronouns. How's that for short and sweet, video?

Rather than deciding which which to use while describing witches which live in Greenwich, you might try a few of these relative adverbs. It'll make...

Say "Hi!" to Hypatia. A mathematician and astronomer from way back in 350 who also happened to be a woman. Oh and don't literally say "Hi." to her,...

Involvement in the STEM fields stems from all areas of life, even ELA. Just because we have no idea what a quadratic acid is, doesn't mean we can't...