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Sophia: Concise Langauage: Reframing Negatives
This slideshow lesson focuses on the reasons to reframe negatives in your writing and how to do so. It provides examples and suggests using negatives sparingly only to caution your reader.
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Sophia: Concise Language: Unnecessay Modifiers
This slideshow lesson focuses on identifying unnecessary modifiers and removing them from your writing. Rule of thumb: if the adjective does not tell the reader something the noun absolutely cannot, eliminate it. It provides student...
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Sophia: Concise Language: Wordiness
This slideshow lesson focuses on using concise language by eliminating wordy construction in writing. It explains why writing needs to be concise and ways to do so by eliminating unnecessary passive tense, wordy constructions, and words...
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Sophia: Concluding Transition Words
This slideshow lesson focuses on the use of concluding transition words; it defines transition words and lists the categories. It explains when and how to use concluding transitions, provides a sample list of them, and offers sentence...
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Sophia: Conclusions
This lesson focuses on writing conclusions; it lists and defines the parts of a conclusion: thesis recap, blueprint recap, and clincher and provides a sample of an effective conclusion with the parts labeled. It also offers a slideshow...
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Sophia: Concrete and Abstract Language
This video lesson focuses on concrete and abstract language by defining them in a comparison form, providing examples of each, and providing practice in the form of listing words and asking students to classify them as concrete or abstract.
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Sophia: Conjunctions: An Introduction
This slideshow lesson focuses on conjunctions; it defines conjunctions. It explains each of the three types of conjunctions: coordinating, subordinating, and correlative. It defines each, lists the conjunctions, and provides sentences...
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Sophia: Physical Science: Conservation of Mass
Created to teach students of the 21st century, Sophia is bringing the laws of mass straight to your fingertips. Become the commander of your own learning experiences as you take part in this brief tutorial. [0:56]
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Sophia: Coping With Test Anxiety
Created to teach students of the 21st century, SOPHIA is bringing study skills straight to your fingertips. Become the commander of your own learning experiences as you take over your test anxiety.
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Sophia: Correcting Sentence Fragments
This slideshow lesson focuses on sentence fragments and how to correct them. It defines fragments, gives two methods for identifying them, provides various ways to correct them with examples, and discusses subordinators and fragments...
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Sophia: Creating Graphic Organizers
This tutorial focuses on creating graphic organizers for a variety of purposes. It presents the following types of organizers, their uses, and the format of each: the Cornell method, charting method, cause and effect organizers, flow...
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Sophia: Demographic Transition Model Lesson Plan
In this lesson students use the Demographic Transition Model (DTM) to take an in-depth look at four different countries.
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Sophia: Descriptive Papers: Organization
This slideshow lesson discusses the organization of descriptive papers. It reviews descriptive papers, lists the three most common organizational patterns: least to greatest, greatest to least, and chronological. Determining which order...
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Sophia: Engineering: Diagnostics and Recovery Toolset (Da Rt) Overview
Created to teach students of the 21st century, SOPHIA is bringing the world of engineering straight to your fingertips. Become the commander of your own learning experiences as you take part in this interactive tutorial.
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Sophia: Diction
This lesson uses text and an accompanying audio to discuss diction including its definition, what it includes, and an explanation and an example of how word choice, word order, and phrasing can change the tone of writing.
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Sophia: Differentiation via the Flipped Class
This is a video tutorial which focuses on three ways to differentiate in a flipped classroom: lesson delivery, learning activities, assessment modalities. A PowerPoint is available with the same information as the video. An example of a...
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Sophia: Differentiation via the Flipped Classroom
Part III of a four-part professional development tutorial on creating a flipped classroom. Learn how to manage objectives, assessments and lessons through new technologies and innovations.
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Sophia: Divided Quotation Punctuation
This slideshow lesson focuses on divided (split) quotations and how to punctuate them. It presents four uses of the divided quote, explains how to punctuate each, and provides examples.
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Sophia: Dorian Guitar Scales Made Simple
Video lesson on playing Dorian scales on six-string guitar. [3:26]
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Sophia: Dystopia
This slideshow focuses on the use of dystopia, dysfunctional societies, in literature. It defines dystopia, explains common characteristics, tells how and why dystopia is created it literature, and provides examples in novels and in movies.
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Sophia: Editing Techniques: Checking Your Grammar
This slideshow tutorial focuses on editing techniques for grammar and mechanical errors; it states three ways that grammar should be reviewed in papers: Microsoft Word's grammar check, review each sentence backwards, and have peer or...
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Sophia: Editing Techniques: Writing a Reverse Outline
This slideshow lesson focuses on writing a reverse outline as a post writing strategy for assessing your paper for weak or missing aspects. It explains how to create the outline using a rubric if available and provides a skeletal example...
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Sophia: Email Etiquette
This slideshow lesson focuses on how to write and reply to professional email. It includes greeting, font, spell check, signature and tips for replying to email.
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Sophia: Ending a Sentence With a Preposition
This lesson focuses on ending a sentence with a preposition; it defines preposition and provides a printable list of prepositions. It discusses when it is acceptable to end a sentence with a preposition and when it is not acceptable.