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Texas Gateway: Similar Right Triangles: The Altitude to the Hypotenuse

For Students 9th - 10th
The student will apply and prove the definition of similar triangles and identify and apply the relationships that exist when an altitude is drawn to the hypotenuse of a right triangle, including the geometric mean.
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Texas Gateway: Applying the Order of Operations

For Students 5th - 7th Standards
Given a numerical expression including whole number exponents and prime factorization, students will use the order of operations to generate an equivalent expression.
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Texas Gateway: Write a Persuasive Text That Supports a Position

For Students 7th - 8th Standards
[Accessible by TX Educators. Free Registration/Login Required] You will learn to write a persuasive text that responds to the views of others by using evidence that differentiates between fact and opinion to support your viewpoint.
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Texas Gateway: Understanding Drama

For Students 7th - 9th
You will learn how to make complex inferences in a play and use textual evidence to support your understanding.
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Texas Gateway: Understanding Drama (English 7 Reading)

For Students 5th - 8th
Learn how to explain a playwright's use of dialogue and stage directions.
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Texas Gateway: Understanding New Vocabulary Within Context

For Students 6th - 9th Standards
Learn how to find the meanings of words through analogy and other word relationships.
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Texas Gateway: Understanding Poetry

For Students 7th - 9th Standards
Learn how to find the meanings of words through analogy and other word relationships.
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Texas Gateway: Understanding Poetry

For Students 6th - 8th Standards
[Accessible by TX Educators. Free Registration/Login Required] Students learn to understand and explore different types of poetry.
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Texas Gateway: Understanding Poetry (English 7 Reading)

For Students 6th - 8th Standards
You will learn the importance of graphical elements (e.g., capital letters, line length, word position) in the meaning of a poem.
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Texas Gateway: Understatement/overstatement (English I Reading)

For Students 9th - 10th
Students learn about and practice literary techniques including overstatements and understatements.
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Texas Gateway: Use a Variety of Correctly Structured Sentences

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
Students structure sentences using literary techniques to use a variety of literary techniques including simple, compound, and complex sentence structure.
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Texas Gateway: Sentences: Compound, Complex, Compound Complex

For Students 9th - 10th
[Accessible by TX Educators. Free Registration/Login Required] Use a variety of sentence structures including compound, complex, and compound-complex.
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Texas Gateway: Strengthen Sentence Variety and Sentence Combining: Practice 2

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
Practice evaluating, adding to, and combining sentences in order to create sentence variety.
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Texas Gateway: Strengthening Introduction, Thesis Statement, and Organization

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
You will learn revision strategies you can use to strengthen your introduction and body of your paper. W.11-12.2a Intro/Format
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Texas Gateway: Style and Syntax (English Iii Reading)

For Students 10th - 12th Standards
[Accessible by TX Educators. Free Registration/Login Required] Evaluate the authors' style and syntax, and evaluate how effective style and syntax are to the overall meaning of the text. L.11-12.3a Syntax
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Texas Gateway: Subordinating Conjunctions

For Students 7th - 9th
Learn how to use and understand the purpose of subordinating conjunctions.
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Texas Gateway: Summarize Informational/expository Text (English 6 Reading)

For Students 5th - 7th Standards
[Accessible by TX Educators. Free Registration/Login Required] Learn how to summarize the main ideas and supporting details in text and understand that a summary does not include opinions.
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Texas Gateway: Summarize Informational/expository Text (English 7 Reading)

For Students 6th - 8th Standards
[Accessible by TX Educators. Free Registration/Login Required] Learn how to evaluate a summary of the original text for accuracy of the main ideas, supporting details, and overall meaning.
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Texas Gateway: Synthesize Ideas and Details in Several Texts (English I Reading)

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
You will learn how to synthesize ideas and details in texts and support the connections with textual evidence.
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Texas Gateway: Themes in Literary Texts (English 6 Reading)

For Students 5th - 7th Standards
Learn how to infer the implicit theme in a work of fiction, distinguish theme from topic, and make complex inferences using textual evidence.
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Texas Gateway: Thesis in an Interpretive Response (English Ii Writing)

For Students 9th - 10th
[Accessible by TX Educators. Free Registration/Login Required] Write an essay that contains a clear thesis statement.
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Texas Gateway: Tone, Style, and Figurative Language: Practice 5

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
Mark examples of figurative language and the diction that indicate tone.
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Texas Gateway: Understand New Vocabulary Using Roots and Affixes

For Students 7th - 8th Standards
Determine the meaning of grade-level academic English words derived from Latin, Greek, or other linguistic roots and affixes.
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Texas Gateway: Understand New Vocabulary Using Roots and Affixes

For Students 5th - 7th Standards
Learn how to determine the meaning of grade-level academic English words derived from Latin, Greek, or other linguistic roots and affixes.