This is a Guide/Index to all of the "Mini-Lessons" posted on Twitter and Instagram, as well as right here on Professor Jim Bucket's Mini-Lessons (PJB).
The posts fall into five broad categories, as follows (click the heading to see all posts in that category):
- Arts
- Visual Arts (painting, drawing, sculpture, architecture, etc.); Performing Arts (music, dance, film and drama as such)
- Literature and Language Study
- Literature, Religion, Mythology; Verbs; Writing Conventions; Study Tips
- Science
- Biology, Chemistry, Earth Sciences, Physical Sciences, Technology
- Social Studies
- General Social Studies, Geography, Government, US and World History
- Vocabulary and Slang
- Academic Vocabulary, Borrowed Words, Business Jargon, Idioms, New Words, Pop Culture Terms, Proverbs, Slang
Arts
- architecture (visual arts - architecture)
- Birth of Venus, The (visual arts - painting)
- choreography (performing arts - dance)
- Count Dracula (performing arts - film)
- Johann Strauss II (performing arts - classical music)
- Louis Armstrong (performing arts - jazz music)
- "Oh My Darling, Clementine" (performing arts - folk song)
- Whistler's Mother (visual arts - painting)
- Bard of Avon, The (literature)
- conjunctions: and, or, but (grammar)
- Count Dracula (literature)
- Describe Your World (study tip)
- Find Your Passion (study tip)
- "Let there be light" (literature)
- Odin (or Woden) (mythology)
- "Pied Piper of Hamelin, The" (folk tale)
- sweep (irregular verbs)
- aborigines (anthropology)
- analysis (general)
- binary (computing, mathematics)
- emoticons (computing)
- evolution (biology)
- Greenpeace (earth science)
- indigenous peoples (anthropology)
- intensity (physics)
- planetary symbols (astronomy)
- savannah/grassland (earth science)
- aborigines (anthropology)
- Alexander the Great (history)
- Bastille, The (history)
- Benjamin Franklin (history)
- Billy the Kid (history)
- expatriation (government)
- expenditures (economics)
- Greenpeace (government)
- indigenous peoples (anthropology)
- Industrial Revolution, The (history)
- Nagasaki (geography)
- Pyrenees, The (geography)
- "Actions Speak Louder than Words" (proverb)
- all thumbs (slang)
- Boy Scouts of America (pop culture)
- chocolate (vocabulary)
- compliance (business jargon)
- emoticons (new words)
- four-letter words (slang)
- freegan (slang)
- fringe benefit (business jargon)
- golden parachute, a (slang)
- heck of a lot of, a (slang)
- "If the shoe fits, wear it!" (proverb)
- "Like a fish out of water." (proverb)
- "Leave well enough alone" (proverb)
- me time (slang)
- one's little girl (or boy) (slang)
- "When the cat's away, the mice will play" (proverb)
(Note: Virtually all photos on this blog come from Wikipedia or Wikimedia Commons. Exceptions will be noted.)
