LEARN/CREATE (MT)

10:00 am 

It's Sew Easy  "Skirt Tutorial"  NULL

10:30 am 

Best of Simply Painting: Across Europe  "The Round Tower at Glendalough"  A 6th-century Irish monastery nestled in the Wicklow mountains provides Frank with an interesting subject to paint. D

11:00 am 

Caprial and John's Kitchen: Cooking for Family and Friends  "Rediscovering Green Beans"  Caprial and John use sweet, new varieties to create green bean salad, roasted green beans and blanched green beans with garlic and lemon.G

11:30 am 

Taste This!  "10 Minutes for Lunch in a Big City"  NULL

12:00 pm 

Expanding Canon: Teaching Multicultural Literature In High School, The  "Workshop 1. Reader Response: Pat Mora and James Welch"  In Part I, Alfredo Lujan and his students at the Monte del Sol school in Santa Fe, New Mexico, explore My Own True Name, Pat Mora. D

1:00 pm 

French In Action  "Portraits II"  Robert is slim, well-built, athletic and maybe just a bit less quick than Mireille. What will happen when these two meet?G

1:30 pm 

French In Action  "Genealogy"  An impromptu visit to the family's country house, where we meet many of Mireille's relatives, including a 10-year old sister who has a mind of her own.G

2:00 pm 

Unfinished Nation  "Pressures from Within"  War of 1812 magnifies need for internal improvements and stronger national government. Distinct patterns of American growth and expansion: areas of fur trading, plantations, and farms. Monroe elected president; "Era of Good Feelings." War with Indians and economic depression of 1819. The Missouri Compromise temporarily resolves sectional differences; Monroe Doctrine asserts U.S. preeminence in hemisphere.G

2:30 pm 

Unfinished Nation  "He Brought The People with Him"  The controversial presidency of John Quincy Adams. Changing party politics ushers in "Age of Jackson." Struggles between the establishment and the Washington outsider. South Carolina's Nullification challenge, and Jackson's response.G

3:00 pm 

Discovering Psychology - Updated Edition  "The Mind Awake and Asleep"  Surveys the nature of sleeping, dreaming, and altered states of consciousness, and how consciousness empowers us to interpret, analyze, and direct our behavior in adaptive, flexible ways.G

3:30 pm 

Discovering Psychology - Updated Edition  "The Mind Hidden and Divided"  Delves into the subconscious mind, examining how events and experiences that take place below the level of consciousness alter our moods, bias our actions and affect our health as demonstrated in repression.G

4:00 pm 

Curiosity Quest  "Cheerleading"  Join Joel on this quest as he learns what it's like to be a cheerleader from the co-ed cheer squad at Brigham Young University. Hold your breath as Joel attempts to safely complete a backflip. D

4:30 pm 

Biz Kid$  "A Closer Look at Financial Careers"  When is a job more than a job? The Biz Kids look at what it takes to find your true calling. You'll learn ways to start exploring careers. The kids talk to several celebrities and find out how they got their start and how they keep achieving their dreaMs.. D

5:00 pm 

The Electric Company  "The Limerick Slam"  Jessica and Manny compete in the annual Limerick Slam. D

5:30 pm 

Cyberchase  "A Battle of Equals"  Hacker pollutes cyberspace with dangerous cyberstatic by tampering with four satellites designed to keep everything free from cyber- static cling. But is his plan only to trash cyberspace - or does he have something even more devious up his cloak? The kids learn the answer as they use balance scales and equations to restore the satellites and save Motherboard. The Big Idea: You can use an equation - a statement that two different expressions are equal to each other - to find unknown values that make the equation true. D

6:00 pm 

Lidia's Italy In America  "Pittsburgh: Pittsburgh's Italian Americans"  NULL

6:30 pm 

Cook's Country from America's Test Kitchen  "Autumn Desserts"  Bridget reveals the secrets to the ultimate Apple Dumplings. Then, Adam reveals his top picks for cake carriers. Next, Chris learns about the best apple varieties for baking at Saratoga Orchards. D

7:00 pm 

Clodagh's Irish Food Trails  "Carlingford and the North East"  NULL

7:30 pm 

Pati's Mexican Table  "Easy Comfort Food"  Simple, easy, home-style cuisine that you'd find in just about any Mexican home, recreated for the American kitchen. This meal was Pati's favorite "everyday" meal growing up in Mexico, and one she regularly makes for her own family today. She's proud to share the steps so that you can enjoy it, too! Dressed-up Chicken Milanesa; Chayote Squash and Pickled Onion Salad; Chunky Chipotle Mashed Potatoes. D

8:00 pm 

Ask This Old House  "Special New York Episode"  In a special episode, the guys visit New York. Plumbing and heating expert Richard Trethewey tours a scale model of the entire city in Queens. Host Kevin O'Connor works with a local electrician to add task lighting to a dark kitchen in Brooklyn. D

8:30 pm 

Rick Steves' Europe  "Berlin: Resilient, Reunited, and Reborn"  Rick climbs the Reichstag's new glass dome, visits a modern-day caberet and tastes chocolate in the eastern sector.G

9:00 pm 

Grand View  "Redwood National Park"  In this episode, Baumann's journey takes his audience to some of the tallest trees on Earth. These old growth redwood stands are some of the last remaining timber that was saved from the lumber industry. These magnificent trees live to be 2000 years old and grow to be over 300 feet tall; Baumann's journey takes him to the base of these mythical giants. D

9:30 pm 

Lidia's Italy In America  "Pittsburgh: Pittsburgh's Italian Americans"  NULL

10:00 pm 

Cook's Country from America's Test Kitchen  "Autumn Desserts"  Bridget reveals the secrets to the ultimate Apple Dumplings. Then, Adam reveals his top picks for cake carriers. Next, Chris learns about the best apple varieties for baking at Saratoga Orchards. D

10:30 pm 

Mexico -- One Plate at a Time with Rick Bayless  "Salsas That Cook"  In their Chicago backyard, Rick and his daughter, Lanie, gather the last of the season's tomatoes to make a big batch of Salsa Mexicana, the fresh tomato salsa sometimes known as Pico de Gallo. And that's the starting point for a fast-paced salsa dance that goes way beyond tomatoes. In Mexico, salsas can be bright and fresh, dark and earthy, red or green, raw or roasted - and they're more of a condiment for food than a dip for chips. D

11:00 pm 

Caprial and John's Kitchen: Cooking for Family and Friends  "Rediscovering Green Beans"  Caprial and John use sweet, new varieties to create green bean salad, roasted green beans and blanched green beans with garlic and lemon.G

11:30 pm 

Rick Steves' Europe  "Berlin: Resilient, Reunited, and Reborn"  Rick climbs the Reichstag's new glass dome, visits a modern-day caberet and tastes chocolate in the eastern sector.G