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Sophia: Epistolary Narration
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
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
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
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
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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Sophia: Folktales
This slideshow focuses on folktales including defining and providing background information, stating their common elements, and providing literary examples such as "Johnny Appleseed" and "Robin Hood."
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Sophia: Forms
This slideshow lesson focuses on forms of fiction: short story, novella, and novel. It describes the defining characteristics of each, provides examples, and explains how to identify each.
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Sophia: Historical Fiction
This slideshow lesson features the genre of historical fiction. It provides background information, common elements, literary examples, and practice. The practice consists of viewing pictures of Stonehenge and the Pyramids and thinking...
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Sophia: How to Take Research Notes
This tutorial focuses on how to take research notes using two slideshows. The first presentation compares taking research notes to class notes and offers 3 methods of note taking that would work for either: Cornell notes, index cards,...
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Sophia: Introductions
This tutorial focuses on introductions; it lists and explains three common components of introductions: motivator, thesis, and blueprint. It provides a sample introduction with commentary showing each of the parts. It discusses the...
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Sophia: Local Editing
This slideshow lesson focuses on local editing; it defines the term and explains what to look for: clarity, mechanics, and grammar, word choice, sentence structure, paragraph structure, and impact on the reader. It discusses each and...
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Sophia: Misplaced Modifiers
This slideshow lesson focuses on misplaced modifiers; it defines them and explains the difference between misplaced and dangling modifiers. It then provides a list of sentences for students to practice identifying misplaced and dangling...
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Sophia: Mla Style
This slideshow lesson focuses on the MLA style including the following: first page format, general paper format, parenthetical citations format with examples, and works cited format including a sample.
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Sophia: Mla Style
This slideshow discusses MLA including what it stands for: Modern Language Association, the purpose of the association, and why it is important to have guidelines and standards for writing.
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Sophia: Mystery
This slideshow focuses on the genre of mystery; it provides background, compares and contrasts mystery and crime fiction, lists the common elements of mystery, and provides literary examples with Nancy Drew and Agatha Christie novels.
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Sophia: Note Taking: Concept Maps and Flow Charts
This slideshow lesson focuses on note taking using concept maps and flow charts; it provides background information, 6 types of concept maps or flow charts with best uses, uses in the classroom, uses while reading or researching, and how...
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Sophia: Outlines
This lesson focuses on outlining; it defines outlining and the two types, topic and sentence. It provides two slideshows: the first focuses on creating the outline including the 4 steps, structure, and importance of flexibility; the...
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Sophia: Punctuating Dialogue
This slideshow focuses on how to punctuate dialogue; it explains the rules for quotation mark and comma use in direct speech, when switching speakers, and when a single speaker speaks in multiple, continuous paragraphs. It provides...
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Sophia: Purpose
This slideshow lesson focuses on purpose; it defines purpose and lists the two main purposes of all writing: to educate (didactic text meaning to inform and instruct) or to entertain (imaginative text). The purpose could also be art for...
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Sophia: Research Sources
This slideshow lesson focuses on research sources by listing 10 types of sources: books, periodicals/magazines, newspaper articles, scholarly articles, databases, reviews, interviews, lectures, media (film, television), and websites. It...
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Sophia: Research Sources: Libraries and Librarians
This slideshow lesson focuses on using libraries and librarians as research sources. It explains what makes them excellent sources of information because of expertise and reference materials available; it also lists the cons of using...
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Sophia: Research Sources: Mining Bibliographies
This slideshow lesson focuses on mining bibliographies, or searching other bibliography pages on your topic to locate potential sources for your own research. It discusses the pros and cons of mining bibliographies.
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Sophia: Research Sources: Periodicals
This slideshow lesson focuses on the use of periodicals as research sources; it discusses the pros of using periodicals as organizational aids and in research of current events and also the cons of periodical's lack of depth and possible...
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Sophia: Revision Technique: Thesis and Support
This slideshow lesson focuses on assessing and revising the thesis, topic sentences, and supporting details in a paper. It uses the analogy of the body: the thesis and topic sentences are the bones and the supporting details are the...
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