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Texas Gateway: Restrictive and Nonrestrictive Clauses and Punctuation
[Accessible by TX Educators. Free Registration/Login Required] You will be able to edit an essay for correct punctuation of restrictive and nonrestrictive clauses and punctuation of contrasting expressions.
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Texas Gateway: Restrictive/nonrestrictive Clauses and Punctuation
[Accessible by TX Educators. Free Registration/Login Required] You will be able to edit an essay for correct punctuation of restrictive and nonrestrictive clauses and punctuation of contrasting expressions.
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Texas Gateway: Review of Dramatic Elements: Practice 4 (English I Reading)
You will be able to recognize the functions of monologue, soliloquy, and dramatic irony in a play.
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Texas Gateway: Practicing the Skills Needed to Give an Effective Speech
[Accessible by TX Educators. Free Registration/Login Required] You will be able to use the skills needed to give an effective speech.
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Texas Gateway: Producing a Text Using a Style Manual (English Iii Research)
[Accessible by TX Educators. Free Registration/Login Required] You will learn to use the Modern Language Association (MLA) style manual to help you format the final draft of your research paper, including headings and graphics if needed.
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Texas Gateway: Punctuation
Learn strategies to help you edit your writing for correct punctuation.
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Texas Gateway: Punctuation (English I Writing)
Learn proofreading techniques to use in checking for correct punctuation. L.9-10.2 Cap/Punc/Spell
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Texas Gateway: Punctuation: Correcting the Comma Splice (English Ii Writing)
Learn proofreading techniques to use in checking for correct punctuation, including correcting the comma splice.
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Texas Gateway: Reading and Writing to a Prompt (English Iii Reading and Writing)
You will learn skills necessary for reading and writing to a prompt.
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Texas Gateway: Reading for Main Idea and Supporting Ideas (English Iii Reading)
[Accessible by TX Educators. Free Registration/Login Required] You will learn to find and analyze the main idea and supporting ideas in a variety of texts.
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Texas Gateway: Reciprocal Pronouns (English I Writing)
You will be able to understand the function and use of reciprocal pronouns such as each other and one another.
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Texas Gateway: Reference Guides (English Iii Reading)
Use reference guides to help you understand the meaning of unfamiliar words.
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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...