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Sophia: Comparison and Contrast Essays

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This lesson focuses on the comparison and contrast essays; it defines new terms: compare/contrast essay, yin/yang Venn diagram, block comparison, and point by point comparison. It also provides a slideshow which defines and discusses the...
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Sophia: Complex Sentences

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This slideshow lesson focuses on complex sentences; it explains what makes up a complex sentence: independent clause, dependent clause, and a subordinate conjunction. It discusses placement, order, and how to punctuate them accordingly.
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Sophia: Compound Complex Sentences

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This slideshow lesson focuses on compound complex sentences. It explains what they are including the requirements, how they are put together, how to punctuate them, and provides examples showing the various sentence structures.
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Sophia: Concise Language Adds Zest!

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This slideshow focuses on how to revise writing using concise language by eliminating unnecessary words and redundancy, avoiding generic phrases, using active voice and familiar terms, and looking for just the right words to convey...
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Sophia: Concise Language: Qualifiers and Intensifiers

For Students 9th - 10th
This slideshow focuses on removing unnecessary qualifiers and intensifiers to make writing more concise. It defines each term, gives examples, shows how removing them does not affect sentence meaning, and provides a partial list of each.
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Sophia: Concise Language: Removing the Excess

For Students 9th - 10th
This slideshow lesson compares writing to meat; lean meat is healthier for you as is lean writing. It lists common phrases to eliminate, explains intensifiers and suggests using them sparingly, provides a wordy paragraph and the trimmed...
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Sophia: Concise Langauage: Reframing Negatives

For Students 9th - 10th
This slideshow lesson focuses on the reasons to reframe negatives in your writing and how to do so. It provides examples and suggests using negatives sparingly only to caution your reader.
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Sophia: Concise Language: Unnecessay Modifiers

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This slideshow lesson focuses on identifying unnecessary modifiers and removing them from your writing. Rule of thumb: if the adjective does not tell the reader something the noun absolutely cannot, eliminate it. It provides student...
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Sophia: Concise Language: Wordiness

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This slideshow lesson focuses on using concise language by eliminating wordy construction in writing. It explains why writing needs to be concise and ways to do so by eliminating unnecessary passive tense, wordy constructions, and words...
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Sophia: Concluding Transition Words

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This slideshow lesson focuses on the use of concluding transition words; it defines transition words and lists the categories. It explains when and how to use concluding transitions, provides a sample list of them, and offers sentence...
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Sophia: Conclusions

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This lesson focuses on writing conclusions; it lists and defines the parts of a conclusion: thesis recap, blueprint recap, and clincher and provides a sample of an effective conclusion with the parts labeled. It also offers a slideshow...
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Sophia: Conjunctions: An Introduction

For Students 9th - 10th
This slideshow lesson focuses on conjunctions; it defines conjunctions. It explains each of the three types of conjunctions: coordinating, subordinating, and correlative. It defines each, lists the conjunctions, and provides sentences...
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Sophia: Correcting Sentence Fragments

For Students 9th - 10th
This slideshow lesson focuses on sentence fragments and how to correct them. It defines fragments, gives two methods for identifying them, provides various ways to correct them with examples, and discusses subordinators and fragments...
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Sophia: Descriptive Papers: Organization

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This slideshow lesson discusses the organization of descriptive papers. It reviews descriptive papers, lists the three most common organizational patterns: least to greatest, greatest to least, and chronological. Determining which order...
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Sophia: Divided Quotation Punctuation

For Students 9th - 10th
This slideshow lesson focuses on divided (split) quotations and how to punctuate them. It presents four uses of the divided quote, explains how to punctuate each, and provides examples.
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Sophia: Dystopia

For Students 9th - 10th
This slideshow focuses on the use of dystopia, dysfunctional societies, in literature. It defines dystopia, explains common characteristics, tells how and why dystopia is created it literature, and provides examples in novels and in movies.
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Sophia: Editing Techniques: Checking Your Grammar

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This slideshow tutorial focuses on editing techniques for grammar and mechanical errors; it states three ways that grammar should be reviewed in papers: Microsoft Word's grammar check, review each sentence backwards, and have peer or...
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Sophia: Editing Techniques: Writing a Reverse Outline

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This slideshow lesson focuses on writing a reverse outline as a post writing strategy for assessing your paper for weak or missing aspects. It explains how to create the outline using a rubric if available and provides a skeletal example...
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Sophia: Email Etiquette

For Students 9th - 10th
This slideshow lesson focuses on how to write and reply to professional email. It includes greeting, font, spell check, signature and tips for replying to email.
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Sophia: Epistolary Narration

For Students 9th - 10th
This slideshow focuses on epistolary narration, revealing a story through letters, documents, or diaries. It defines the term, explains what to look for to identify them, gives the two perspectives, and offers literary examples: C.S....
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Sophia: Euphemisms

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This slideshow lesson focuses on euphemisms including providing definition and background, lists of common examples, practice determining meaning, information about when to use, and links to more information about them. L.9-10.5a Figures...
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Sophia: Evaluating Digital Information: Tutorial

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
In this slideshow tutorial, students will review how to evaluate digital sources. During the digital evaluation process, students are directed to analyze the following: authority, accuracy, objectivity, and currency. After the tutorial,...
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Sophia: Extended Metaphor

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This slideshow focuses on the extended metaphor including defining it, stating its purpose, showing the difference between a metaphor and an extended metaphor, and providing a literary example -- Shakespeare's "As You Like It"-- with...
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Sophia: Facts

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This slideshow lesson focuses on facts; they are true, verifiable, and identical across sources. General facts, commonly accepted, do not need citations; specific facts: statistics, expert testimony, and anecdote do require citation.

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