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Sophia: Rates Tutorial

For Students 6th - 8th Standards
Identify and understand the term rate.
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Sophia: Reading Strategies: Tutorial

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
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)

For Students 9th - 10th
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: Real & Fictitious Settings

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This lesson introduces real and fictitious settings in fiction writing. This tutorial lesson shares a short slideshow with the lesson's content.
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Sophia: Referencing the Author's Purpose

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This lesson explains how to reference an author's purpose when answering a reading comprehension question. This tutorial shares an audio version of the lesson's content. [3:14] RI.11-12.6 Eval Purpose, Rhetoric, Style
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Sophia: Relating Miles Cubed and Kilometers Cubed

For Students 6th - 8th
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

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
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

For Students 9th - 10th
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

For Teachers 9th - 10th
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

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
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

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
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

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
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

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
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"

For Teachers 9th - 10th Standards
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

For Students 9th - 10th
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

For Students 4th - 8th
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

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
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

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This tutorial offers a video and a slideshow explaining the rules for using the semicolon. [1:24]
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Sophia: Semicolons

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
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

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
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: Semicolons Rule!

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This tutorial focuses on semicolons; it provides two audio clips: one explaining how semicolons are different from periods and commas and the other explaining how to use semicolons with conjunctive adverbs. It also provides in slideshow...
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Sophia: Sentence Fragments

For Students 9th - 10th
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

For Students 9th - 10th
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

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
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.