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Texas Gateway: Parallelism (English Ii Writing)

For Students 10th - 12th
[Accessible by TX Educators. Free Registration/Login Required] Learn strategies for evaluating and revising an essay so that similar grammatical structures in sentences, phrases, and paragraphs are parallel.
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Texas Gateway: Parallelism of Details: Practice 3

For Students 9th - 10th
You will practice strategies for evaluating and revising parallel structure in an essay.
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Texas Gateway: Organization Appropriate to Purpose, Audience, and Context

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
[Accessible by TX Educators. Free Registration/Login Required] You will be able to write an essay that is organized appropriate to audience, purpose, and context.
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Texas Gateway: Polishing Tone, Style, and Vocabulary (English Iii Research)

For Students 10th - 12th Standards
[Accessible by TX Educators. Free Registration/Login Required] You will learn revision strategies you can use to polish your research paper's style, tone, and vocabulary. W.11-12.1d Tone/Style
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Texas Gateway: Polishing Tone, Style, and Vocabulary in Your Essay

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
Learn revision strategies you can use to polish your essay's style, tone, and vocabulary. W.11-12.1d Tone/Style, W.11-12.1e Tone/Style
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Texas Gateway: Exploring the Ratio of Circumference to Diameter

For Students 6th - 8th
This activity provides an opportunity for students to explore the ratio of the circumference of its circle to the length of its diameter in order to generalize the ratio of pi. [3:14]
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Texas Gateway:analyze the Development of Plot Through Characters

For Students 7th - 9th Standards
This learning module will take the user through examples and applications of how to indentify plot through characters in fictional texts.
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Texas Gateway:how to Read and Analyze a Short Story

For Students 9th - 10th
[Accessible by TX Educators. Free Registration/Login Required] In this learning module, the user will learn to read and analyze a short story using knowledge of literary and poetic devices.
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Texas Gateway:analyze How Author's Style and Syntax Support Meaning

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
In this learning module, students will learn and apply the concepts of author's style and syntax.
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Texas Gateway:analyze Various Texts With Similar Themes (English I Reading)

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
In this learning module, the user will learn and apply the skills to analyze themes.
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Texas Gateway:diction and Tone (English I Reading)

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
In this learning module, the user will learn and apply the concepts of tone and diction. Tone is the author's attitude toward the writing. Tone is largely determined by diction or the words that an author chooses.
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Texas Gateway: The American Civil Rights Movement: An Overview

For Students 9th - 10th
Given primary and secondary resources, students will be able to trace the historical development of the civil rights movement in the 19th, 20th, and 21st centuries, and describe the roles of political organizations that promoted civil...
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Texas Gateway: Political Influences of the Great Depression

For Students 9th - 10th
Given primary and secondary sources of information about selected New Deal measures (e.g., the creation of the Civilian Conservation Corps or the passage of the Agricultural Adjustment Act), students will analyze how these measures...
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Texas Gateway: Separate but Equal: A Study of Segregation

For Students 9th - 10th
Given Supreme Court case summaries, students will compare and contrast the impact of the Plessy v. Ferguson and Brown v. Board of Education decisions.
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Texas Gateway: Commentary on Quotations From Text in an Interpretive Response

For Students 10th - 12th
[Accessible by TX Educators. Free Registration/Login Required] In this lesson, you will learn how to include quotations from a text and commentary on those quotations.
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Texas Gateway: Compare and Contrast Similar Themes Across Time Periods

For Students 9th - 10th
In this lesson, you'll learn how to compare and contrast similar themes across time periods and types of works.
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Texas Gateway: Cognates (English Iii Reading)

For Students 10th - 12th Standards
In this lesson you'll learn about different types of cognates, words that sound or look alike from one language to the next. You'll learn how leveraging cognate knowledge helps you figure out unfamiliar words in English. When you combine...
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Texas Gateway: Determining Importance & Summarizing Informational Text

For Teachers 3rd - 5th Standards
These teacher resources focuses on why it is important to teach elementary students to determine the importance and to summarize informational text. It leads an activity to help teachers experience when and how we use these strategies.
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Texas Gateway: Determining Validity and Reliability of Sources

For Students 10th - 12th Standards
This lesson will help students decide which sources are valid and reliable for supporting a thesis. It discusses how to evaluate books, articles, websites, and more.
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Texas Gateway: Active/passive Voice: More Complex Tenses (English Ii Writing)

For Students 9th - 10th
In this learning module, students will expand their range of editing skills and improve your writing by replacing passive verbs with active verbs and learning to use verb tense consistently. It will improve their voice, tenses, and mood.
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Texas Gateway: Describe Themes in Literary Texts (English 7 Reading)

For Students 6th - 8th Standards
[Accessible by TX Educators. Free Registration/Login Required] This lesson is about themes, the central messages in literature. Whatever their genre might be, writers have some wisdom, some universal truth or insight to share; this...
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Texas Gateway: Developing a Research Plan and Timeline (English Iii Research)

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
In this lesson, students will to learn how to narrow their research topic and create a research plan and timeline. W.9-10.7 Research
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Texas Gateway: Developing a Thesis and Introduction (English Iii Writing)

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
In this lesson, students will learn how to develop a thesis and an introduction for a research project. W.11-12.2a Intro/Format
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Texas Gateway: Developing an Annotated Bibliography (English Iii Writing)

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
[Accessible by TX Educators. Free Registration/Login Required] This lesson will help students develop good research habits. The most important thing to learn is that you should never list a source in a bibliography without having all the...