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Sophia: Possessives and Gerunds
A screencast lesson [5:41] explaining how possessive pronouns are used with gerunds and gerund phrases.
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Sophia: Practical Applications of the Bell Shaped Curve
Explore the bell-shaped curve and how to calculate a z score. Additional links provided to further knowledge on outliers.
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Sophia: Present Continuous
A four-slide presentation introducing the present continuous verb tense (also known as present progressive verb tense) and explaining how it is used within a sentence. Examples are provided.
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Sophia: Prewriting: Dialogue
A six-slide presentation introducing how to have a dialogue in order to brainstorm ideas during the prewriting stage of the writing process.
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Sophia: Product Property of Radicals
Explore how to solve radical equations using the product property of radicals. Check for understanding with a quiz.
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Sophia: Properties of Equality
This video lesson reviews the properties of equality and demonstrates how to use them to solve equations. Students can check their understanding with an assessment.
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Sophia: Quotation Marks
A nine-slide presentation introducing quotation marks, providing rules for quotation mark usage, and showing examples of the proper use of quotation marks.
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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: Read, Write, and Analyze Poetry (Haiku and Free Verse Poetry)
This tutorial focuses on poetry; it defines free verse and haiku, explains how to write each, and provides examples. It offers a slideshow which provides tips for beginners on how to read poetry, how to identify types of poetry, and how...
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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: 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: 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: 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: Semicolons
This tutorial offers a video and a slideshow explaining the rules for using the semicolon. [1:24]
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Sophia: Semicolons
This semicolon tutorial includes notes, a slideshow, and an animated YouTube video. The slideshow defines semicolons, explains how and when to use them, and provides examples of them in context. The video explains the Chicago Style...
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Sophia: Semicolons and Conjunctive Adverbs
This screencast focuses on the use of semicolons and conjunctive adverbs; it defines both, provides their rules, and provides examples for using them. The instructor explains ow to use conjunctive adverbs, how to punctuate the sentences...
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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: Similarity
This learning tutorial describes the characteristics of similar figures and how to use scale factor and proportions to determine missing side lengths. The lesson includes PowerPoint presentations and videos demonstrating how to solve...
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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.