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Sophia: Suffixes
This slideshow lesson focuses on suffixes including defining them, explaining how they impact the root word, discussing the advantages of learning them, and providing a partial list of suffixes with the meanings. L.11-12.4b Patterns/changes
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Sophia: Supporting Details
A six-slide presentation explaining the importance of using supporting details and describing different types of details that can be used to support an idea.
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Sophia: Symbolic Character
Five slides that introduce symbolic characters and provide examples from The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde by Robert Louis Stevenson.
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Sophia: The Ellipsis Mark
This video lesson focuses on the proper use of the ellipsis, including how to type them correctly and how to use them in various types of quotations. [8:57]
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Sophia: The Ellipsis
This lesson focuses on the ellipsis. The following topics are discussed: how it is written, its purpose, its uses, how to punctuate sentences with ellipsis, and examples of sentences with ellipses. Text and audio formats are used.
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Sophia: The Em Dash
A video lesson explaining the form and function of an Em dash followed by a PowerPoint providing several examples of Em dash usage. [2:48]
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Sophia: The Simple Future
This slideshow lesson focuses on the simple future verb tense; it provides background about verb tenses, defines simple future, offers examples, and alerts the reader about the use of contractions, such as I'll for I will.
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Sophia: The Simple Past
Nine slides introducing the simple past verb tense and providing examples of both regular and irregular simple past tense verb conjugation.
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Sophia: Title Format
A nine-slide presentation explaining how to format the titles within a text. Formatting examples include the titles of books, articles, poems, short stories, films, and plays.
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Sophia: Topic Sentence: Map It Out!
An eight-slide presentation introducing how to write a strong topic sentence by using the acronym MAP (main idea, attitude, preview).
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Sophia: Transitioning Topics Effectively
A seven-slide presentation that reviews transitions and discusses how to use them to move from one idea to the next.
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Sophia: Transition Words
Eight slides introducing different types of transition words including similarity, contrast, addition, illustration, and cause and effect words.
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Sophia: Understatement
A four-slide document introducing understatement and explaining how it can be used as a rhetorical device.
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Sophia: Verb Tenses
This slideshow lesson focuses on 12 verb tenses by providing background and examples of each. The 12 verb tenses are as follows: present, present continuous, present perfect, present perfect continuous, past, past continuous, past...
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Sophia: Vocab Tip: Test Yourself
A screencast lesson [5 mins, 30 secs] explaining how students can learn new vocabulary words by testing themselves over the words to discover what they know and what they need to know.
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Sophia: Writing Effective Topic Sentences
Ten slides discussing the elements of a topic sentence and explaining how to write an effective topic sentence by using the acronym MAP (Main idea, Attitude, Preview).
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Sophia: Abbreviations
Seven slides explaining the rules of using abbreviations properly in formal writing.
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Sophia: Abbreviations
A fifteen-slide presentation discussing the proper rules, usage, and punctuation of abbreviations. Examples are provided.
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Sophia: Additive Transition Words
Six slides explaining how to use additive transition words to connect, or add, one idea to another to increase fluency. Examples are provided in a chart and within various types of sentences.
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Sophia: Adverb Clauses
A nine-slide presentation explaining adverb clauses, how they often utilize subordinating conjunctions, and how to punctuate them correctly.
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Sophia: Alliteration
Notes introducing and providing examples of alliteration and the two types of alliteration, consonance and assonance. Notes can be both read and listened to.
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Sophia: Apa Format: Long Quotes
A three page printable document of notes followed by a screencast lesson [4 mins, 55 secs] explaining how to format long quotations using the APA style.
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Sophia: Apa Format: Short Quotes
A five-page printable document followed by a screencast lesson [6 mins, 31 secs] explaining how to format short quotations using APA formatting.
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Sophia: Apa Style
Five slides introducing APA style of formatting and discussing some of the guidelines it establishes for research papers.