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Sophia: Incorporating Quotes in Your Writing
Notes, a fourteen-slide presentation, and two videos teaching students how to incorporate and punctuate quotes into various sections of an essay and how to embed quotes within a paragraph.
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Sophia: Indefinite and Definite Articles
This lesson focuses on articles; it defines article, definite article, and indefinite article and provides examples of each. It explains the difference between "a" and "an" and tells when to use each, and it also discusses the exceptions...
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Sophia: Indefinite and Definite Articles
This lesson focuses on articles; it defines definite and indefinite articles and provides examples of each. It explains the a vs. an rule and the exceptions to the rule.
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Sophia: Indefinite and Definite Articles
This video lesson covers the rules for the use of definite and indefinite articles; it defines and gives specific examples and rules for each. Real Player is required.
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Sophia: Judging and Reacting: Tutorial
In this slideshow tutorial, students will review the critical reading techniques of making judgments and forming reactions about what they read. Explanations are given about drawing conclusions, responding to literature, and making...
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Sophia: Logos, Pathos, and Ethos
Notes introducing logos, pathos, and ethos and explaining how each appeal to an audience in a different way. Notes can be both read and listened to.
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Sophia: Magical Realism
A seven-slide presentation explaining and identifying the characteristics of the fictional genre of magical realism. Examples are provided.
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Sophia: Making Connections & Applications: Tutorial
In this slideshow tutorial, students will review the reading strategy of making connections. An explanation of the strategy is given, along with examples of how to make text-to-text, text-to-self, and text-to-world connections.
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Sophia: Mla Bibliographies
A fourteen-slide presentation followed by a series of four videos demonstrating how to create a bibliography for various sources using MLA formatting.
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Sophia: Mla Bibliography: Book Sources
A seven-slide presentation explaining how to format several types of book sources in a bibliography using MLA style.
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Sophia: Mla Format: Long Quotes
A three page printable document of notes followed by a screencast lesson [4 mins, 47 secs] explaining how to format long and short quotations using the MLA style.
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Sophia: Mla Format: Short Quotes
Notes and examples that can be read or listened to explaining how to format short quotes following MLA format.
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Sophia: Mla Format: Short Quotes
A four-page printable document followed by a screencast lesson [5 mins, 17 secs] explaining how to format short quotations using MLA formatting.
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Sophia: Multiple Choice: Eliminating Extreme Choices: Tutorial
In this slideshow tutorial, students will review different ways to eliminate poor choices that may be seen on multiple choice tests. Marking strategies to use during the process of elimination are included, along with examples of how to...
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Sophia: Note Taking Techniques
A five-slide presentation explaining techniques writers can use to take effective notes while gathering information for a research project. SL.9-10.1a Prepared/Discuss
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Sophia: Note Taking: Word Selection
A screencast lesson [8:35] explaining how to determine which information is necessary and relevant when taking notes.
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Sophia: Objects
This slideshow instructional activity focuses on objects: direct objects, indirect objects, and the objects of the preposition; it also discusses objective complements. It defines objects in general and each of the above individually and...
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Sophia: Omitting Words From Quotations
Notes demonstrating how to correctly write and punctuate a quote when part of the quote has been removed and replaced with an ellipsis. Notes can be read and/or listened to and examples are provided.
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Sophia: One vs. You
This slideshow lesson focuses on the use of "one" and "you." It defines each, explains the differences, tells when to use each, and provides examples.
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Sophia: Oxymorons
This slideshow focuses on oxymoron by defining the term, discussing its purpose, and providing examples. L.9-10.5a Figures of Speech
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Sophia: Paper Writing: Transitions and Topic Sentences
This tutorial focuses on transitions including transitional devices, lists of common transition words and phrases, transitions between paragraphs with examples, and separate lists of transition words for descriptive, narrative, and...
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Sophia: Parts of Speech
This tutorial focuses on the parts of speech; it provides 6 short slideshows: the first is an overview of parts of speech, the other 5 are for each of the following parts of speech: nouns, verbs, adjectives, adverbs, and conjunctions;...
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Sophia: Passive and Active Voice
This tutorial focuses on active and passive voice. Definitions, examples, and the reasons that the active voice is the preferred voice in most cases. It offers a slide show with definitions, examples, when to use, forms of passive voice...
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Sophia: Past Continuous Tense
This slideshow lesson discusses the past continuous tense, also referred to as the past progressive tense. It defines the tense, explains what is needed to form the tense, and provides examples.