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Problem and Solution Text Structure: Desertification
Problem and Solution Text Structure:Desertification demonstrates understanding of the problem and solution text structure by explaining the problem presented in an informational text and explaining the solution(s) to an identified problem.
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Description Text Structure:Local Girl Gets Party of a Lifetime
Description Text Structure:Local Girl Gets Party of a Lifetime demonstrates understanding of the description text structure by documenting the who, what, when, where, why, and how of the topic of an informational text.
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Analyzing Tone
Analyzing Tone explores how an author’s attitude is expressed through words and details by analyzing tone.
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Editorial Bias
UCLA Chinese cultural studies expert Michael Berry describes how the editor plays a key, and often overlooked role, in the process of bringing a translated work of literature to the public.
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The Best Books I Read in 2021 | AI, Science Fiction, and more!
I read 104 books in 2021. Here are some of my favorites!
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Worth Imitating
UC Berkeley historian and Byzantine specialist Maria Mavroudi describes how famous Greek writers were consciously imitated centuries or even millennia after they had lived, and how she was counselled to take the writer Lucian as her role...
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Addressing Our Ignorance
Author and independent scholar Pankaj Mishra describes his motivations to write a detailed account of influential Asian intellectuals many in the West have never heard of.
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Direct and Indirect Quotes
A video that reviews the act of quoting information from outside sources of authority. Citations can be placed within an essay through direct quotations or through paraphrases.Knowing how to cite information correctly helps writers to...
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Author’s Style
Students will learn about different aspects that go into creating an author’s unique writing style.
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The Meaning of Words
Students will learn how to decipher between the connotation, denotation, implied, and specific meanings of words.
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Understanding Rhetoric
“Understanding Rhetoric” will assist students in learning how to make an effective argument by balancing pathos, logos, and ethos appeals.
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Narrative Structure
Students will learn how to create style in narratives through various structures, including flashback and fast-forward.
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Types of Characterization
“Types of Characterization” will help the student to review the different types of characterization, particularly direct and indirect characterization
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Cause and Effect Text Structure
Cause and Effect Text Structure identifies the common characteristics of the cause and effect structure of informational text.
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Theme
“Theme” will help students evaluate the concepts of theme and main idea within a piece of literature.
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Problem and Solution Text Structure
Problem and Solution Text Structure identifies the common characteristics of the problem and solution structure of informational text.
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Description Text Structure
Description Text Structure identifies the common characteristics of the description structure of informational text.
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Descriptive Language
This video explores the idea of descriptive language and how tone, mood, and imagery all work in conjunction to enhance any form of writing.
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Drawing Conclusion
Drawing Conclusions teaches how to use clues from informational text to draw conclusions.
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Making Inferences
Making Inferences explains how context clues can be used to make inferences about a story.
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Theme:A Guilty Conscience
Theme:A Guilty Conscience demonstrates understanding of theme by identifying an example of theme found in the short story, A Guilty Conscience.
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Literary Texts: Introduction to Cultural Texts and Roland Barthes' From Work to Text
Roland Barthes' From Work to Text is a seminal essay which lays out why, in the humanities, we have come to refer to pieces of literature, films and many other things using the catch-all term "text". Because, we refer a lot to reading a...
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Comprehension Story Elements: SETTING
This video teaches what the setting is and how to identify it from simple text to more complex text. It teaches how the authors sometimes tells us the setting and sometimes they show it, where we have to infer and use clues to figure out...