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Wisewire: Grades 9 10 Playlist: Analyze How an Author Unfolds an Argument

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This is an example of how to analyze how an author unfolds an argument. It provides an example and links to use for practice. RI.9-10.3 author unfolds
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Texas Education Agency

Texas Gateway: Analyze How Author's Style and Syntax Support Meaning: English I

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
Explore and practice the analysis of author's style and syntax to support meaning.
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Apa Style Central

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
Use this comprehensive resource to learn about APA style. Students and teachers can use this site as a springboard for any questions they may have concerning APA Style.
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Texas Education Agency

Texas Gateway: Polish Tone, Style, and Figurative Language

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
[Accessible by TX Educators. Free Registration/Login Required] In this lesson, you will learn strategies for evaluating and revising the tone, style, and figurative language in an essay. It also includes practice exercises.
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Texas Education Agency

Texas Gateway: Analyze How Author's Style and Syntax Support Meaning

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
In this lesson, we will discuss how an author's syntax reveals meaning and makes ideas stay with the reader. Practice exercises are included.
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University of Wisconsin

University of Wisconsin: Using Transitions: Transitional Words and Phrases

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
Tables of words that show different types of sentence transitions. W.9-10.1c cohesion/clarity/reason, W.9-10.2c cohesion/clarity/transitions. CCSS.ELA-Literacy.CCRA.W.4, W.11-12.1c Transitions/Cohesion, W.11-12.2c Transition/Cohesion....
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University of Illinois

University of Illinois Extension: The Great Plant Escape

For Students 3rd - 5th
Inspector LePlant and his friends look at the world of plants in this site for younger students. Features include the parts of plants and the seven basic requirements that plants need to survive as well as a short quiz.
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CK-12 Foundation

Ck 12: 7.1: Tone and Style

For Teachers 9th - 10th Standards
[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] Gain a better understanding of tone and style by understanding formal and informal style, learning to write clearly, correcting vague sentences, distinguishing...
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Harvard University

Harvard Writing Center: Tips on Grammar, Punctuation and Style

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
Rather than lists of rules, this site provides practical advice on the use of commas, semicolons, dashes, hyphens, abbreviations, acronyms, split infinitives, "this," "that," italics, and underlining. CCSS.ELA-Literacy.CCRA.L.2
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Wayne State College: Baroque Early [Based on Grout/palisca, 5th Ed., Ch 9]

For Students 9th - 10th
These appear to be notes taken from a college lecture and contain considerable information on the Baroque period of music.
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Online Writing Lab at Purdue University

Purdue University Owl: Parallel Structure in Professional Writing

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
A good reference to consider when writing professionally (as in business/technical writing). Includes brief structural examples.
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Curated OER

Macmillan/mc Graw Hill: Writing: Consistent Style and Tone

For Students 6th - 8th Standards
Learn about maintaining a consistent style and tone in writing.
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Khan Academy

Khan Academy: Style and Technique

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
Use context to figure out how to use language appropriately--formality, irony, understatement, and overstatement.
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Louisiana Department of Education

Louisiana Doe: Curriculum Hub: Ela Guidebooks: Romeo and Juliet: Sentence Structure

For Students 9th Standards
We will analyze the structure of a sentence from "After 450 Years, We Still Don't Know the True Value of Shakespeare" to determine how understanding the sentence deepens our understanding of the text.
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Louisiana Department of Education

Louisiana Doe: Curriculum Hub: Ela Guidebooks: Romeo and Juliet: Sentence Structure

For Students 9th Standards
Students analyze the structure of a sentence from the prologue of Act II of Romeo and Juliet to determine how understanding the sentence deepens our understanding of the text.
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Louisiana Department of Education

Louisiana Doe: Curriculum Hub: Ela Guidebooks: The Joy Luck Club: Style and Tone

For Students 9th Standards
Analyze and annotate a model essay focusing on style and tone.
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Louisiana Department of Education

Louisiana Doe: Curriculum Hub: Ela Guidebooks: A Lesson Before Dying: Sentence Structure

For Students 9th Standards
Analyze the structure of a sentence from chapter four of A Lesson Before Dying to determine how understanding the sentence deepens our understanding of Grant's internal conflict.
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City University of New York

Cuny Write Site: Grammar and Style

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This section of the WriteSite includes answers to some common grammatical questions, exercises to help you gain the knowledge to answer them yourself, and information about a program that can show you what kind of errors give you the...
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English Plus+

English Plus: Grammar Slammar!

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
An easy-to-use grammar resource containing rules for style, usage, capitalization, abbreviations, punctuation, and letter writing. This site also includes a glossary of common grammatical mistakes.
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Ted Nellen

Cyber English (By Ted Nellen): Literary Terms S Z

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
The third of three pages of simple definitions for literary terms. This page, S - Z, covers twenty-two terms from "Saga," to "Understatement."
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Ram Samudrala: Fashion (Or Life in New York)

For Students 9th - 10th
Brief review on the play, Fashion, written by Anna Cora Mowatt. Also known as Life in New York, this play "emphasizes the ridiculous and comically depraved side of humanity."
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Technical Writing

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This site provides style and grammar rules for technical writing.
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Michigan State University

Michigan State University: Botany Online: Features of Flowering Plants: Flowers

For Students 9th - 10th
Site details the parts of the flower as well as provides links to terms such as seed, calyx, corolla and many more.
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Abwag: Learn About Acting

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
Student awareness and appreciation of acting will be enhanced after discovering the tricks of the trade. They will learn how to act, feel and think in an acting environment.