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Lumen: Writing Process: Organizing
This lesson focuses on the organization of your paper including how to write a thesis statement, the elements of an effective paragraph, patterns of organization, transitions, and conclusions. It also provides a video of the Toulmin...
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Lumen: Critical Reading: Conclusion to Critical Reading
This lesson focuses on the importance and purpose of reading. It features an article entitled "The Benefits of Leisure Reading."
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Lumen: Writing Process: Selecting a Topic
This lesson plan focuses on selecting a writing topic including your approach to the assignment, understanding the assignment, purpose of the assignment, strategies for finding a topic, and how to narrow a topic to fit the scope and...
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Lumen: Critical Reading: Summary Skills
This instructional activity focuses on how to write a summary including strategies for annotation, paraphrasing the thesis statement, distinguishing major ideas from minor ones, and picking appropriate quotes. It also provides videos...
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Lumen: Grammar: Try It: Punctuation
This is a non-graded punctuation practice in which student read passages with incorrect punction and then type each passage using the correct punctuation.
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Lumen: Grammar: Sentence Structure
This lesson focuses on sentence structure including the parts of a sentence, types of sentences, sentence patterns, run-on sentences, fragments, phrases and clauses, and much more. It also includes a video, practices, and a self-check.
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Lumen: Grammar: Try It: Sentence Structure
This is a non-graded sentence structure practice in which students are asked to copy a blank paragraph with punctuation provided then write sentences to fit the punctuation.
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Lumen: Grammar: Voice
This lesson focuses on active and passive voice including how to identify each, how to change passive to active voice, and when passive voice is appropriate.
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Lumen: Grammar: Try It: Voice
This is a non-graded active and passive voice practice including identifying active and passive voice sentences, determining what the passive voice is doing in sentences, and changing passive to active voice.
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Lumen: Grammar: Conclusion to Grammar
This lesson focuses on grammar in language. It discusses the importance of using correct grammar, and the "Weird Al" Yankovic - Word Crimes" video.
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Lumen: Grammar: Try It: Adjectives and Adverbs
This is a non-graded practice identifying adjectives and adverbs and listing comparatives.
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Lumen: Grammar: Other Parts of Speech
This lesson focuses on conjunctions, prepositions, and articles. It discusses the types of conjunctions and their uses, some prepositions and their uses including ending a sentence with a preposition, and definite and indefinite...
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Lumen: Grammar: Try It: Other Parts of Speech
This is a non-graded practice activity in which students identify conjunctions, prepositions, and articles in a passage.
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Lumen: Grammar: Punctuation
This lesson focuses on the roles of all of the punctuation marks; it provides a video, small practices in various sections, and a punctuation self-check.
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Lumen: Grammar: Try It: Pronouns
This is a non-graded pronoun practice including identifying pronouns in a passage and a pronoun case activity.
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Lumen: Grammar: Adjectives and Adverbs
This activity focuses on adjectives and adverbs including their functions, differences, and common mistakes. It provides six videos to aid understanding, several short practice activities, and a self-check.
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Lumen: Reading and Interpreting Literary Texts: Literary Terms: A Guide
This is a guide to poetic literary terms such as meter and an explanation of several types of meter, types of stanzas, types of rhyme, etc.
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Lumen: Reading and Interpreting Literary Texts: Literary Criticism
This activity focuses on how to write a literary criticism, the different theories and approaches to literary criticism, and their standard format.
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Lumen: Early American and Puritan Literature: "A Model of Christian Charity"
"A Model of Christian Charity" is a 1630 sermon by Puritan layman and leader John Winthrop, who delivered on board the ship Arbella while en route to the Massachusetts Bay Colony. It is also known as City upon a Hill and denotes the...
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Lumen: Early American and Puritan Literature: The Pilgrim's Progress
The Pilgrim's Progress from This World to That Which Is to Come; Delivered under the Similitude of a Dream is a Christian allegory written by John Bunyan (1628-1688) and published in February 1678. It is regarded as one of the most...
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Lumen: Early American Literature: "Verses Upon the Burning of Our House"
"Verses upon the Burning of our House" (July 10, 1666) is a poem by Anne Bradstreet. She wrote it to express the traumatic loss of her home and most of her material. However, she expands the understanding that God had taken them away in...
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Lumen: Models for Literary Analysis
Explore these links to see models for literary analysis including a model analysis of poetry. "Types of Papers: Literary Analysis" from Roane State OWL and "Deep Desires that Transcend Time" by Alyssa Ensminger, from Roane State OWL....
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Lumen: The Romantic Period, 1820 1860: Essayists and Poets
This lesson focuses on the Romantic Period's essayists and poets such as Ralph Waldo Emerson, Henry David Thoreau, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Emily Dickinson, Walt Whitman, the Brahmin Poets, and more.
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Lumen: American Literature: "Wakefield" by Nathaniel Hawthorne
Use the text excerpt and video "Wakefield" by Nathaniel Hawthorne to identify and understand the characteristics of American Romanticism.