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Sophia: Reading Strategies: Tutorial
In this slideshow tutorial, students will review different types of reading strategies to promote comprehension of text. The strategies included are the following: making predictions, visualizing, questioning the text, retelling,...
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Sophia: Relating Miles Cubed and Kilometers Cubed
Students learn how to convert between cubed miles and cubed kilometers. Definitions and an example are included in the video lesson.
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Sophia: Remembering the u.s. Presidents
Video, with accompanying lyrics, features a quick mnemonic device for remembering the order of the U.S. presidents and how many terms each president served. Includes quick reference guide to the first ten presidents. [2:06]
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Sophia: Reporting Mass Measurements
This tutorial explains how to measure mass accurately on different types of measuring instruments.
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Sophia: Research Essay for the Turn of the Screw
This PDF lesson plan is for students to write a 5-7 page essay which uses research to support their stance on a topic. For this essay, the students will argue whether they believe the character of the Governess, from Henry James' The...
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Sophia: Research Sources: Books
A nine-slide presentation discussing the pros and cons of books being used during the process of gathering research.
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Sophia: Revising Topic Sentences
A nine-slide presentation explaining how to use the acronym MAP (main idea, attitude, preview) to edit and revise a topic sentence.
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Sophia: Revision Techniques: Improving Flow
A ten-slide presentation explaining revision strategies that focus on improving the flow of a written text.
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Sophia: Revision Techniques: Using a Checklist
An eleven-slide presentation explaining how checklists can be used through the revision step of the writing process.
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Sophia: Rhetorical Analysis of "So This Was Adolescence"
This PDF lesson plan prepares students for multiple portions of the AP Language and Composition exam (specifically, the multiple choice section and the rhetorical analysis prompt) by analyzing a brief text which students will be able to...
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Sophia: Run on Sentences
A variety of presentation formats including notes, a PowerPoint presentation, activities, and a video [4:52] defining run-on sentences and comma splices and explaining different ways of correcting them.
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Sophia: Savannas
A quick overview of the Savanna biome, including a description of the wildlife and climate there.
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Sophia: Selecting Topics for Literary Analysis
A series of three PDF documents providing definitions of commonly used terms when preparing to write a literary analysis, explaining how to comment on a literary text, and demonstrating the process of analyzing the literary text "Hills...
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Sophia: Sentence Fragments
An eight-slide presentation introducing sentence fragments and explaining how to identify them within a text.
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Sophia: Sentence Length and Style
Notes introducing how author's vary the length of sentences in order to express their voice and style. Examples from three literary texts are provided, "Rappaccini's Daughter" by Nathaniel Hawthorne, "Hills Like White Elephants" by...
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Sophia: Separation Punctuation
This website provides information about how to use separation punctuation. There is a video clip [0:47] on why periods go inside quotation marks, and a second video clip [1:07] showing the effects of using too many exclamation points.
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Sophia: Significant Figures Addition & Subtraction
A guided lesson explaining how to add and subtract numbers expressing the answer with the appropriate number of significant digits.
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Sophia: Significant Figures the Basics
This learning activity helps explain what significant figures are, and why they are important to science.
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Sophia: Simple Sentences: Oh So Happy!
Six slides introducing simple sentences, explaining how they are formed, and demonstrating how they can be linked together to create a compound sentence.
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Sophia: Simplifying Radical Expressions
This video lesson demonstrates how to simplify radical expressions by rationalizing the denominator. The tutorial includes detailed examples.
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Sophia: Solar System Formation
An illustrated slide show highlighting the origin and make-up of our solar system.
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Sophia: Solubility Chart
A video tutorial comparing temperature and solubility of several compounds in an easy-to-understand chart. [6:52]
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Sophia: Solubility Rules
A narrated screencast which describes the solubility rules of common ions. [4:23]