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Lumen: Using Sources: Mla Works Cited
This lesson focuses on creating a Works Cited page using the MLA format including page numbers, title, spacing, alphabetical order, and hanging indents. An example is provided. Click the Next button at the bottom right for detailed "in...
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Lumen: Using Source: Mla in Text Citations
This activity focuses on how to use MLA in-text (or parenthetical) citations including examples and non-examples and a detailed flow chart of when and how to use them. L.9-10.3a Standard Format
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Lumen: Using Sources: Practice: Citing Sources
This is a practice exercise in citing sources. W.11-12.8 Sources/Integrate/Cite
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Lumen: Using Sources: Using Online Citation and Reference Tools
This instructional activity focuses on using online citation tools and being aware that they make mistakes that must be corrected. W.9-10.8 Sources
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Lumen: Using Sources: Quotation
This lesson focuses on integrating source material using direct quotations including examples and a chart of when to use them.
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Lumen: Introduction to Multimodality
This is an introduction to multimodality including the difference between mode and medium. Click on the Next link.
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Lumen: Multimodality: What Is a Mode?
This instructional activity focuses on the definition of mode, the five modes of communication, and the difference between mode and medium.
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Lumen: Critical Reading: Logic and Structure
This lesson focuses on structure and logic including types and purposes of essays, organizational patterns, argumentative writing, and logic and fallacies.
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Lumen: Writing Process: Drafting
This lesson plan focuses on drafting including making an outline and writing a draft from it, the crappy first draft, writing, revising, rewriting, and time management. W.9-10.5 Writing Process
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Lumen: Writing Process: Revising
This lesson focuses on revising your drafts to create your final paper. It includes a revision checklist, getting feedback from someone you trust, responding and redrafting, revising and proofreading, and how to write the final copy.
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Lumen: Writing Process: Proofreading
This instructional activity focuses on proofreading and editing including style, word choice, grammar, typos, tips for proofreading, proofreading strategies, and editing for language and sentence construction. It offers two videos: "5...
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Lumen: Writing Process: Conclusion to the Writing Process
This lesson features the video "Jerry Seinfeld Interview: How to Write a Joke" [5:02] It shows that he has been revising the same joke for two years. Writing is an ongoing process. W.9-10.5 Writing Process
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Lumen: Research Process: Finding Sources
This lesson focuses on how to find sources including information on research strategies: preliminary, intermediate, and advanced. It provides a variety of resources available in each level including videos: " How To Google Like A Pro!...
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Lumen: Research Process: Source Analysis
This lesson focuses on how to analyze sources using the C.R.A.A.P. method, how to integrate sources into your paper, and how to synthesize information from multiple sources. It provides three videos: "Researching 101: Evaluating...
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Lumen: Research Process: Writing Ethically
This lesson focuses on academic honesty and intentional and unintentional plagiarism including definitions and tips to avoid them. It provides three videos: "West Boca High School principal accused of plagiarism," "What is academic...
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Lumen: Research Process: Mla Documentation
This lesson focuses on MLA documentation including MLA paper formatting, Works Cited citations, and in-text citations. It includes multiple videos and a slide show, a practice activity, and a self-check.
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Lumen: Grammar: Nouns
This lesson focuses on nouns including noun functions, singular and plural nouns, types of nouns, irregular plural rules, and practice activities. It also provides two videos: "Introduction to nouns | The parts of speech | Grammar" and...
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Lumen: Grammar: Pronouns
This lesson focuses on pronouns including functions of pronouns, types of pronouns, pronoun person, number, and case, and pronoun and antecedent agreement and clarity. It also provides three pronoun videos, pronoun practice, and a...
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Lumen: Grammar: Verbs
This lesson focuses on verbs including functions and categories of verbs, types of verbs, irregular verbs, verb tenses, tense consistency, subject-verb agreement, verbals, and a variety of verb practice activities. It offers several...
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Lumen: Grammar: Try It: Verbs
This is a non-graded verb practice including categorizing, agreement, and non-finite clauses.
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Lumen: Walden: Where I Lived, and What I Lived For
This is the text and audio of Chapter 2.2 of Walden by transcendentalist Henry David Thoreau. It focuses on where he lived and what he lived for.
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Lumen: American Romanticism: Walden: Conclusion
This is the text of Chapter 18 of Walden by transcendentalist Henry David Thoreau. By immersing himself in nature, Thoreau hoped to gain a more objective understanding of society through personal introspection. Simple living and...
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Lumen: Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave
This is the text and audio of the autobiography Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave by Frederick Douglass. This 1845 memoir and treatise on abolition encompasses eleven chapters that recount Douglass' life as a...
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Lumen: Distinguish Between Primary and Secondary Sources
This lesson plan focuses on distinguishing between primary and secondary sources and evaluating them. It includes a list of questions to ask to determine the value of the sources under consideration.