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Texas Gateway: Parallelism of Details (English I Writing)
You will learn strategies for evaluating and revising an essay so that similar grammatical structures in sentences, phrases, and paragraphs are parallel.
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Texas Gateway: Paraphrasing While Listening and Taking Notes
[Accessible by TX Educators. Free Registration/Login Required] Learn to paraphrase a speaker's remarks in the process of your note taking.
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Texas Gateway: Plot Development (English I Reading)
You will be able to analyze how flashback, foreshadowing, sub-plots, or parallel plot structures can be used in developing a plot in a short story.
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Texas Gateway: Poetic Forms
[Accessible by TX Educators. Free Registration/Login Required] Learn how to compare and contrast the relationship between the purpose and characteristics of different poetic forms: epic poetry and lyric poetry.
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Texas Gateway: Point of View and Tone (English Ii Reading)
[Accessible by TX Educators. Free Registration/Login Required] Evaluate connections between forms of narration (unreliable narrator, omniscient, etc.) and tone in works of fiction.
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Texas Gateway: Polish Tone, Style, and Figurative Language (English Ii Writing)
You will learn strategies for evaluating and revising the tone, style, and figurative language in an essay. W.9-10.1d & W.9-10.2e Style/tone/conv
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Texas Gateway: Practicing Different Kinds of Speeches (English Iii Speaking)
[Accessible by TX Educators. Free Registration/Login Required] You will learn how to give a variety of speeches, such as informative, narrative, reflective, descriptive, and oral interpretation. SL.11-12.6 Speaking tasks
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Texas Gateway: Organization Appropriate to Purpose, Audience, and Context
[Accessible by TX Educators. Free Registration/Login Required] Write an essay that is organized appropriate to audience, purpose, and context. W.9-10.4 Write/Aud/purp, W.11-12.4 Clear/Coherent Writing
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Texas Gateway: Organizing Major Points and Supporting Information in an Outline
Organize your major points and supporting information into an outline.
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Texas Gateway: Organizing the Structure of a Paper (English Iii Writing)
Learn how to organize your essay with relevant evidence that supports your thesis.
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Texas Gateway: Origins and Meanings of Foreign Words and Phrases
Become acquainted with the origins and meanings of foreign words and phrases frequently used in English texts.
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Texas Gateway: Paradox (English Iii Reading)
Source: Paradoxes, James Guppy, Flickr Paradox is a type of figurative language that A Handbook to Literature defines as "a statement that while seemingly contradictory or absurd may actually be well-founded or true." You will find...
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Texas Gateway: Parallelism (English Ii Writing)
[Accessible by TX Educators. Free Registration/Login Required] Learn strategies for evaluating and revising an essay so that similar grammatical structures in sentences, phrases, and paragraphs are parallel.
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Texas Gateway: Parallelism of Details: Practice 3
You will practice strategies for evaluating and revising parallel structure in an essay.
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Texas Gateway: Organization Appropriate to Purpose, Audience, and Context
[Accessible by TX Educators. Free Registration/Login Required] You will be able to write an essay that is organized appropriate to audience, purpose, and context.
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Texas Gateway: Evaluate Graphics in Informational/procedural Text
You will learn how to evaluate graphics for their clarity in communicating meaning and achieving a specific purpose.
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Texas Gateway: Synthesize Ideas in Informational/expository Text
[Accessible by TX Educators. Free Registration/Login Required] Learn how to synthesize and make logical connections between ideas within a text and across two or three texts representing similar or different genres and support with...
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Texas Gateway: Summarize Informational/expository Text
[Accessible by TX Educators. Free Registration/Login Required] You will learn how to summarize main ideas, supporting details, and relationships among ideas within expository text.
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Texas Gateway: Polishing Tone, Style, and Vocabulary (English Iii Research)
[Accessible by TX Educators. Free Registration/Login Required] You will learn revision strategies you can use to polish your research paper's style, tone, and vocabulary. W.11-12.1d Tone/Style
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Texas Gateway: Polishing Tone, Style, and Vocabulary in Your Essay
Learn revision strategies you can use to polish your essay's style, tone, and vocabulary. W.11-12.1d Tone/Style, W.11-12.1e Tone/Style
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Texas Gateway: Exploring the Ratio of Circumference to Diameter
This activity provides an opportunity for students to explore the ratio of the circumference of its circle to the length of its diameter in order to generalize the ratio of pi. [3:14]
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Texas Gateway:analyze the Development of Plot Through Characters
This learning module will take the user through examples and applications of how to indentify plot through characters in fictional texts.
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Texas Gateway:how to Read and Analyze a Short Story
[Accessible by TX Educators. Free Registration/Login Required] In this learning module, the user will learn to read and analyze a short story using knowledge of literary and poetic devices.
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Texas Gateway:analyze How Author's Style and Syntax Support Meaning
In this learning module, students will learn and apply the concepts of author's style and syntax.