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Sophia: Adjectives
This lesson focuses on adjectives including the definition, the role, and the placement of adjectives.
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Sophia: Adjectives
This screencast lesson focuses on adjectives including definition, what they do in a sentence, why they are important, and examples. Real Player is required.
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Sophia: Adjectives and Adverbs
This video lesson focuses on adjectives and adverbs; it explains the difference between them. It also discusses when to use adverbs and adjectives and provides examples of each.
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Sophia: Adverb Clauses
This lesson focuses on adverb clauses; it defines adverb, clause, and adverb clause. It discusses the functions of adverb clauses, how they are formed, what questions they answer in the sentence, and provides examples.
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Sophia: Adverb Clauses
A nine-slide presentation explaining adverb clauses, how they often utilize subordinating conjunctions, and how to punctuate them correctly.
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Sophia: Allegory
This slideshow focuses on allegory by defining characteristics and providing examples.
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Sophia: Alliteration
Notes introducing and providing examples of alliteration and the two types of alliteration, consonance and assonance. Notes can be both read and listened to.
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Sophia: Answering Based on Context
In this slideshow tutorial lesson, students will review how to answer questions based on context clues. Definitions and short examples are provided related to how to find context clues and then apply the textual evidence to reading...
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Sophia: Apa Format: Long Quotes
A three page printable document of notes followed by a screencast lesson [4 mins, 55 secs] explaining how to format long quotations using the APA style.
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Sophia: Apa Format: Short Quotes
A five-page printable document followed by a screencast lesson [6 mins, 31 secs] explaining how to format short quotations using APA formatting.
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Sophia: Apa Style
Five slides introducing APA style of formatting and discussing some of the guidelines it establishes for research papers.
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Sophia: Apostrophes: Tutorial
In this slideshow tutorial, the punctuation topic of "the apostrophe" is reviewed. Each slide provides a different purpose for using an apostrophe.
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Sophia: Apostrophes and Contractions
This lesson focuses on apostrophes and contractions; it defines contractions and discusses how they are formed by using the apostrophe to replace the missing letters. It provides a list of common contractions and the words they stand...
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Sophia: Apostrophes and Contractions
This slideshow lesson focuses on apostrophes and contractions; it defines contractions and shows how contractions are formed using apostrophes for the missing letters. It provides a contraction chart including the contraction, its...
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Sophia: Apostrophes and Possession
This lesson focuses on the use of apostrophes to show possession. It explains when to add apostrophe s, when to add only an apostrophe, how to show joint possession, and how to show possession with compound nouns. It provides examples of...
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Sophia: Apostrophes and Possession
Six slides introducing apostrophes and how they can be used properly with singular and plural nouns to show possession.
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Sophia: Appropriate Language
This lesson focuses on using appropriate language in formal writing; it discusses pretentious language, jargon, and cliches. It defines each, provides examples, and explains why and how to avoid each. SL.9-10.6 Adapt to task/formal
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Sophia: Appropriate Language
Students can learn how to use language appropriately through these notes on pretentious language, nine presentation slides on using jargon, eleven presentation slides on cliches in writing, and a video also about cliches. [2:00]
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Sophia: Appropriate Language
A series of three PowerPoints and two videos defining pretentious language, jargon, and cliche and explaining how writers can avoid using them. W.11-12.2d Lang/Fig/Voc
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Sophia: Argument Papers
A series of six screencast lessons explaining the process of argumentative writing. The first [4 min. 22 sec.] focuses on overall structure and purpose. The second [6 mins, 18 secs] explains how to state a claim. The third [6 min. 3...
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Sophia: Articles
This screencast focuses on articles (a, an, the) including definitions, the two types, how and when to use each.
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Sophia: Articles
This video lesson focuses on the 3 articles: a, an, the; it defines articles, discusses the two categories: definite and indefinite, and provides the rules for use and the exceptions with examples.
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Sophia: Articles: Basic Rules for A, An, and The
This video focuses on English articles (a, an, and the) including definitions, pronunciations, the two types, and when and how to use them.
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Sophia: Articles
A screencast lesson [5 mins, 52 secs] introducing articles and their proper usage and providing examples of articles functioning within sentences.