LEARN/CREATE (MT)

9:00 am 

The Victory Garden  "Inspired Gardens"  This week, VICTORY GARDEN host Jamie Durie demonstrates how to create a dramatic bougainvillea espalier, inspired by the Getty Museum in California. Gardening correspondent Paul Epsom takes viewers on a "seasonal walk" through the world-famous New York Botanical Garden to demonstrate how to sustain a low-maintenance seasonal border all year long. Resident chef Michel Nischan teams up with renowned Boston-based chef Barbara Lynch to dry vegetables for year-round use and stir them up into a hearty Italian summer minestra - a flavorful soup that uses the garden to its best advantage. D

9:30 am 

For Your Home  "Highpoint Furniture Market Tour"  NULL

10:00 am 

Quilting Arts  "Creative Quilting"  NULL

10:30 am 

Best of the Joy of Painting  "Autumn Palette"  Venture down a pathway with artist Bob Ross, you'll savor gorgeous fall-time woods and the glory of color!. D

11:00 am 

Kimchi Chronicles  "The Pork Chronicles"  As opposed to the lean-is-better preference in the United States, Koreans love their pork full of fat - and flavor. In this episode, Marja, her dear friend, the actress Heather Graham, and an expert food blogger named Daniel eat classic pork barbeque at Heukdonga restaurant in Seoul. They also stop by Songgane Gamjatang, where Seoul's taxi drivers convene for pork bone soup and the grand pork dish known as bo ssam. D

11:30 am 

P. Allen Smith's Garden to Table  ""Egg"Cellent!"  P. Allen Smith visits chef Patrick Herron to learn about duck eggs and make desserts. He learns about a rare breed of heritage duck and explores the chemistry involved in cooking with eggs.G

12:00 pm 

Destinos: An Introduction to Spanish  "Tengo Dudas"  In this episode, Arturo asks Raquel if she would be willing to move to Buenos Aires.G

12:30 pm 

Destinos: An Introduction to Spanish  "Asf Fue: I"  This episode begins a four-part review of the entire series and begins with the first segment.G

1:00 pm 

Teaching Reading K-2: A Library of Classroom Practices  "Connecting Skills to Text"  Learning to read in Charmon Evans's first-grade classroom in Port Hueneme, California is skills-oriented and fun. Students interact with a talking puppet or are contestants in the Word Wall Game Show. Ms. Evans balances skill development - phonemic awareness, phonics, and sight word identification - with authentic reading and writing tasks to encourage a love of learning. D

1:30 pm 

Teaching Reading K-2: A Library of Classroom Practices  "Promoting Readers As Leaders"  Valerie Kostandos believes all her first-grade students in Melrose, Massachusetts should take on the role of leader. This contributes to a learning climate where students see themselves as readers, writers, and leaders who manage their classroom routines. They take attendance, help each other discover the motivation of a character in a text, and make decisions about when they need support in reading. D

2:00 pm 

Mechanical Universe And Beyond, The  "Angular Momentum"  An old momentum with a new twist. D

2:30 pm 

Mechanical Universe And Beyond, The  "Torques and Gyroscopes"  From spinning tops to the precession of the equinoxes. D

3:00 pm 

Discovering Psychology - Updated Edition  "The Developing Child"  Traces the processes and stages of growth and considers the nature vs. nurture debate by showing how developmental psychologists study the relative influence of heredity and environment.G

3:30 pm 

Discovering Psychology - Updated Edition  "Language Development"  Examines the development of language and what psychologists hope to discover about the human mind, society and culture by studying how children use language in social communication.G

4:00 pm 

Design Squad  "Band Cam"  World music band Zili Misik challenges the teams to create remote-controlled aerial camera systems to cover their live performance.G

4:30 pm 

Biz Kid$  "Using Your Credit-Crazy Or Compelling?"  Don't live on borrowed time. Join the Biz Kids and you'll see the true cost of purchasing with credit. You'll also have an unsettling look at credit scores and the increasing number of people and places (employers, insurers, colleges, etc. D

5:00 pm 

The Electric Company  "Madame President"  Lisa and Francine face off in the election for Book Club President. Can Lisa's campaign message win out over Francine's dirty politics?. D

5:30 pm 

Cyberchase  "Castleblanca"  (topic: Finding Meaning from Data) - Dr. Marbles is captured by Hacker and taken to Castleblanca, a cyberspace version of Transylvania. Hacker's goal: transfer Marbles' brainpower into his newly-built robot named Megabyte! Summoned by Motherboard, the kids and Digit arrive with the knowledge that Hacker has taken Marbles to a castle - but which one? There are hundreds and hundreds of castles. To find Marbles, the kids must master the art of properly collecting data, organizing it and graphing the results - which are sometimes surprising! The Big Idea: Data is a lot more than a collection of numbers. D

6:00 pm 

Quilting Arts  "Creative Quilting"  NULL

6:30 pm 

Best of the Joy of Painting  "Autumn Palette"  Venture down a pathway with artist Bob Ross, you'll savor gorgeous fall-time woods and the glory of color!. D

7:00 pm 

Chef John Besh's New Orleans   Shrimp and Chicken Jambalaya, Jen's Wild Berry Cream Pie, and Blueberry Sorbet. D

7:30 pm 

Joanne Weir's Cooking Confidence  "Middle-East Feast Or Spice It Up"  Joanne shows us how preserved lemons add vibrancy and a bright taste to hummus. Then, Jerry is back and ready to spice it up using cardamom and coriander to transform a plain chicken breast into unforgettable Spice-Dusted Chicken Skewers with Harissa Yogurt Sauce, served with Pearl Couscous. Recipes: Spiced Humus with Preserved Lemons, Spice-Dusted Chicken Skewers with Harissa Yogurt Sauce, Pearl Couscous (and variations). D

8:00 pm 

Hometime  "Timber Shed Doors"  The HOMETIME crew installs custom carriage house doors and lays a system of tailored pavers. D

8:30 pm 

Rick Steves' Europe  "Milan and Lake Como"  Rick peeks at Italy's highest fashion, fanciest delis, grandest cemetery and greatest opera house in Milan, plus takes in Leonardo da Vinci's painting of The Last Supper.G

9:00 pm 

Burt Wolf: Travels & Traditions  "Yucatan, Mexico"  Burt leads the way to Uxmal, the intellectual and cultural center of the Maya, and reveals the best places to shop.G

9:30 pm 

Essential Pepin  "Rollin' In Dough"  Soda Bread; Gros Pain; Long Proofed Baguette; Brioche; Bread Galettes. D

10:00 pm 

America's Test Kitchen from Cook's Illustrated  "Simple & Satisfying Vegetable Mains"  NULL

10:30 pm 

Caprial and John's Kitchen: Cooking for Family and Friends  "Cooking with Cane Berries"  The Pences gather a sampling of Oregon's abundant crop, which go into blackberry pie with pecan crumble and raspberry almond cakes.G

11:00 pm 

Kimchi Chronicles  "The Pork Chronicles"  As opposed to the lean-is-better preference in the United States, Koreans love their pork full of fat - and flavor. In this episode, Marja, her dear friend, the actress Heather Graham, and an expert food blogger named Daniel eat classic pork barbeque at Heukdonga restaurant in Seoul. They also stop by Songgane Gamjatang, where Seoul's taxi drivers convene for pork bone soup and the grand pork dish known as bo ssam. D

11:30 pm 

Rick Steves' Europe  "Milan and Lake Como"  Rick peeks at Italy's highest fashion, fanciest delis, grandest cemetery and greatest opera house in Milan, plus takes in Leonardo da Vinci's painting of The Last Supper.G