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Sophia: English to Metric Conversion: Lesson 4
This lesson shows how to convert between English to metric units for different derived units. It is 4 of 4 in the series titled "English to Metric Conversion."
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Sophia: Audience and Writing Style
This slideshow tutorial focuses on adjusting writing style to fit the audience. It looks at audience characteristics and discusses how to adapt the vocabulary, sentence style, and tone to fit them. It provides an example using the topic...
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Sophia: Affixes 4
This slideshow lesson focuses on affixes. It defines the term; discusses prefixes including location, examples, and how they affect the root word; discusses suffixes including location, examples, and how they affect the part of speech;...
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Sophia: Common Themes in Literature
This tutorial focuses on common themes in literature, beginning with a slide show discussing 11 different, common themes and literary examples. This is followed by a 11-minute YouTube video with students acting out common themes in...
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Sophia: Characterization Through Description
This slideshow focuses on authors defining characters through description such as features, dress, mannerisms, emotions, and objects. It provides several examples from Bram Stoker's "Dracula."
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Sophia: Concise Language Adds Zest!
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
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
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
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
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
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: Concrete and Abstract Language
This video lesson focuses on concrete and abstract language by defining them in a comparison form, providing examples of each, and providing practice in the form of listing words and asking students to classify them as concrete or abstract.
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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: Analytical Papers: Organization
This slideshow tutorial focuses on organizing an analytical paper; it defines analysis and outlines the basic five- paragraph essay format. It discusses what goes into the introduction, the body paragraphs, and the conclusion. It...
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Sophia: Parallel Construction
This slideshow lesson focuses on parallel structure; it defines parallelism and compares it to train tracks. It offers examples, purpose, and usage.
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Sophia: Parallel Structure
This slideshow lesson focuses on parallel structure; it provides the rules for parallel structure with items in a series and in comparisons using "than" or "as." It also offers examples of each with and without parallel structure.
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Sophia: Brackets 8
This slideshow lesson focuses on the use of brackets. It lists 5 uses for brackets and discusses each one separately with examples showing proper use. The 5 uses are as follows: an insertion, within parentheses, a change in a quotation,...
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Sophia: Adjectives and Adverbs 5
This slideshow lesson focuses on adjectives and adverbs. After looking at the similarities between them, it discusses each individually including their purpose, location, the questions they answer, and examples for each.
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Sophia: Brackets
This slideshow lesson focuses on brackets by providing background information and uses including the following: clarify details, adding emphasis, modifying quoted material, and marking errors in quotations using [sic]. It provides...
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Sophia: Cause and Effect Papers: Thesis
This slideshow lesson focuses on how to write an effective cause and effect thesis; it reviews cause and effect writing, lists signal words for cause and effect papers, explains what is required in the thesis, and provides three examples...
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Sophia: Cause and Effect Transition Words
This slideshow lesson focuses on cause and effect transition words; it defines and lists the categories of transition words. It discusses when to use cause and effect transition words, provides a list of sample words, and offers sentence...
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Sophia: Character Cards
This video lesson focuses on using character cards as a reading strategy. It defines and gives the purpose of character cards, explains the type of information to put on the front and the back of the card and how to maintain the card. It...
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Sophia: Colons and Dashes
This tutorial offers two slideshows: one for colons and one for dashes. They each state the purpose of the mark and tell when they are used along with examples.
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Sophia: Commas in a Series
This slideshow focuses on the use of commas in a series. It discusses the rule for commas in a series; requirements of a series; words, phrases, and clauses in a series; and comma placement.