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Sophia: Complication
Notes that introduce complication in plot and show examples of how the conflict becomes more complicated throughout the rising action of a story. Examples are provided from Mary Shelly's Frankenstein and Virginia Woolf's "The Duchess and...
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Sophia: Compound Sentences
An eight-slide presentation introducing compound sentences and explaining how to write them and why writers use them.
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Sophia: Compound Words
This slideshow lesson focuses on compound words; it defines the term, provides a list of examples of both hyphenated and non-hyphenated compound words, explains the rules for when to hyphenate them, and provides examples. It also...
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Sophia: Concise Language
Notes, two videos, and a PowerPoint presentation introducing concise language and explaining its importance and how to edit writing to make it more concise.
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Sophia: Conflict Types
This slideshow lesson focuses on types of conflict including the 3 main types: internal, external, and relational. It defines internal conflict, gives ways the character could be conflicted, and provides literary examples. It lists the 4...
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Sophia: Conjunctions
A screencast lesson [4 mins, 24 secs] introducing and providing examples of coordinating, subordinating, and correlative conjunctions.
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Sophia: Connecting Clauses
Notes defining dependent and independent clauses, followed by an eleven-slide PowerPoint presentation defining and giving examples of simple, compound, and complex sentences. More notes explain subordinating conjunctions, conjunctive...
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Sophia: Consuming Tv
In this tutorial, students will read about the viewing of television in American households through the reading of a passage and the viewing of a video segment. Students will then engage in answering basic comprehension questions,...
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Sophia: Cool, Cool Commas
This tutorial focuses on 4 basic comma rules that cover 85% of all comma use: series, compound sentences, direct address, and introductory clauses. It provides an audio clip explaining these 4 rules and 5 short slide shows: one for each...
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Sophia: Coordinating Conjunctions
This slideshow lesson focuses on coordinating conjunctions; it defines them, lists them, provides a trick to help remember them, and provides examples showing comma use.
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Sophia: Coordinating Conjunctions
This slideshow focuses on coordinating conjunctions; it defines conjunctions, and coordinating conjunctions. It lists the coordinating conjunctions and the memory device FANBOY, and it provides example sentences showing their uses.
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Sophia: Correcting Double Negatives
This slideshow lesson focuses on fixing double negatives. It starts by showing what a double negative really says and how to make it say what they mean. It discusses why they are not used, when they can be used in writing, a list of...
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Sophia: Correcting Double Negatives
This slideshow lesson focuses on double negatives. It includes defining the term, explaining why they aren't used, providing a list of "no" words, offering ways to correct them with examples, and listing steps to eliminate them in writing.
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Sophia: Correcting Run on Sentences and Comma Splices
A twelve-slide presentation explaining run-on sentences and comma splices and providing five solutions to correcting these sentence errors.
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Sophia: Count and Non Count Nouns
This lesson focuses on count and non-count nouns; these refer to things that can be counted like dogs or trees, or things that cannot be counted like water or sand. It discusses what words can be used with count nouns, others that can be...
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Sophia: Definition Context Clues
In this slideshow tutorial, students will review the concept of using context clues to comprehend unfamiliar words or phrases in a given text. Types of context clues and their definitions are also included.
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Sophia: Denouement
Notes introducing denouement and providing plot diagrams and examples of denouement in three classical texts: Alice's Adventures in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll, "Metamorphosis" by Franz Kafka, and "The Duchess and the Jeweler" by...
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Sophia: Direct and Indirect Objects
This video lesson teaches students how to identify direct and indirect objects and how to tell the difference between them. It defines each, explains what questions each answer, and tells where they are usually located in sentences.
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Sophia: Direct and Indirect Objects
This video lesson focuses on objects: direct, indirect, and objects of a preposition. It explains how to identify direct and indirect objects and where indirect objects are located. It also explains how to tell the difference between an...
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Sophia: Direct and Indirect Objects
This slideshow lesson focuses on direct and indirect objects. It defines and gives examples of each and explains that direct objects can be words, phrases, or clauses while indirect objects can be words, phrases, or found in...
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Sophia: Divided Quotation Punctuation
An eight-slide presentation explaining how to properly punctuate a divided quote.
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Sophia: Divided Quotation Punctuation
Notes demonstrating how to correctly write and punctuate a divided quotation. Notes can be read and/or listened to and examples are provided.
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Sophia: Editing Techniques: Checking Your Sentence Structure
A ten-slide presentation demonstrating how to edit writing for sentence variety and how to identify and correct sentence errors such as fragments, run-ons, and comma splices.
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Sophia: Emphasis: Using the Passive Voice
A five-slide presentation reviewing passive voice and explaining the effect of using it properly within a sentence. Examples are provided.