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Sophia: Common Themes in Literature

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This tutorial focuses on common themes in literature, beginning with a slide show discussing 11 different, common themes and literary examples. This is followed by a 11-minute YouTube video with students acting out common themes in...
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Sophia: Reading Comprehension and Classroom Discussions

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This tutorial focuses on active reading comprehension strategies including reading aloud, taking notes, summarizing, and writing in the margins of books to improve retention and class discussion. It includes two Flickr videos on active...
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Sophia: Satire

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This video lesson focuses on satire including its definition, its purpose, how it works, media examples, and literary examples. Real Player is required.
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Sophia: Critical Reading as a Learning Strategy

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This tutorial focuses on critical reading using a downloadable PowerPoint presentation, "Critical Reading 101," which includes separating fact from opinion, 6 propaganda techniques, and 6 common fallacies in reasoning. Also provided is...
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Sophia: Developing a Research Question

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This tutorial focuses on picking a research question, beginning with a slide show that defines the term, tells how it is different than a research topic, and provides information for evaluating your research question by answering a list...
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Sophia: Developing Research Questions: Focus Your Research

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This tutorial focuses on why it is important to have a question in mind before beginning research; how to pick a research question based on personal interests or finding gaps; and choosing a topic that is interesting, researchable,...
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Sophia: I Just Got Assigned a Paper, Now What?

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This lesson focuses on what to do after being assigned a paper; it provides the basic steps to writing a paper: brainstorm topics, organize your thoughts (Venn diagrams, tree diagram examples), conduct preliminary research, create a...
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Sophia: Who vs. Whom

For Students 9th - 10th
This video lesson focuses on the use of who and whom in sentences. It provides background information including part of speech and the purpose of each, explains each individually with examples, and offers a memory trick to apply with...
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Sophia: Capitalization

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This tutorial teaches standard rules of capitalization and common errors. It offers a PowerPoint presentation over the rules for capitalizing proper nouns and information on capitalizing abbreviations with examples. This is followed by...
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Sophia: Bill Nye: Baseball Moon

For Students Pre-K - 1st
Bill Nye explains the phases of the moon with an experiment using a baseball, a lamp on a table, a dark room, and a stool or chair that swivels. As the person moves around, the changes in reflected light show the phases of the moon. The...
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Sophia: Prewriting

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This tutorial focuses on prewriting using graphic organizers to fit the type of paper required. The video discusses the following graphic organizers: chain of events, cycle charts, looking at both sides of an issue, sequence ladder, Venn...
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Sophia: Adjective Clauses and Relative Pronouns 2

For Students 9th - 10th
This slideshow lesson focuses on adjective clauses and relative pronouns; it explains what an adjective clause requires and the questions it answers in the sentence. It provides a list of relative pronouns: who, which, that, whom, whose,...
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Sophia: Brackets 8

For Students 9th - 10th
This slideshow lesson focuses on the use of brackets. It lists 5 uses for brackets and discusses each one separately with examples showing proper use. The 5 uses are as follows: an insertion, within parentheses, a change in a quotation,...
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Sophia: Apa Bibliography: Interview Sources

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This slideshow lesson focuses on how to document interview sources using APA style. It describes two types of interviews: personal and published. It explains how to document a personal interview in text with an example; it also explains...
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Sophia: All About Modifiers

For Students 9th - 10th
Learn about different types of modifiers through information, examples and a video. Then learn what dangling and misplaced modifiers are and how to correct them. [1:37]
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Sophia: Adjectives and Adverbs 5

For Students 9th - 10th
This slideshow lesson focuses on adjectives and adverbs. After looking at the similarities between them, it discusses each individually including their purpose, location, the questions they answer, and examples for each.
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Sophia: Writing Arguments

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This tutorial focuses on argumentative and persuasive writing: it lists and defines the components of arguments, provides a flow chart for argumentative writing, defines counterarguments, and lists the 3 elements of persuasion: ethos,...
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Sophia: Argumentative Essays

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This tutorial focuses on argumentative essays, longer writings on a well-researched topic with the writer arguing one side of the topic, free of fallacies, and providing several claims. A short YouTube clip of Monty Python shows the...
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Sophia: Practice Math Act Test 1 [Pdf]

For Students 9th - 10th
This is a practice test for the ACT test. At the end, the answers are provided with an explanation.
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Sophia: Practice Math Act Test 2 [Pdf]

For Students 9th - 10th
This pdf file contains a practice ACT test with answers and hints at the end.
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Sophia: Courageous/difficult Conversation: Lesson 2

For Students 9th - 10th
At the end of this tutorial, the learner will understand how to use courageous conversation to reduce/resolve personal conflicts and strengthen relationships. It is 2 of 3 in the series titled "Courageous/Difficult Conversation."
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Sophia: Using Corresponding Parts of Congruent Triangles

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This lesson will demonstrate the use of CPCTC in triangle congruency proofs.
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Sophia: Creating Buy in to a Conflict Resolution Process: Lesson 2

For Students 9th - 10th
At the end of this tutorial, the learner will understand how to encourage parties to attempt conflict resolution. It is 2 of 3 in the series titled "Creating Buy-In to a Conflict Resolution Process."
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Sophia: Cytoplasm: Lesson 3

For Students 9th - 10th
This lesson will discuss the structure and function of the cytoplasm. It is 3 of 5 in the series titled "Cytoplasm."