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English Standard 1.0 Word Analysis, Fluency, and Systematic Vocabulary Development
Students apply their knowledge of word origins to determine the meaning of new words
encountered in reading materials and use those words accurately.
WEBSITE: http://www.glencoe.com/sec/writerschoice/course/grade12/index.html
ANNOTATION: One of the features of this website is an interactive vocabulary
practice. In addition, grammar and writing practice are also available.
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English Standard 1.0 Word Analysis, Fluency, and Systematic Vocabulary Development
Students apply their knowledge of word origins to determine the meaning of new words
encountered in reading materials and use those words accurately.
WEBSITE: http://www.visuwords.com/
ANNOTATION: This website provides an online graphical dictionary. It provides a
visual tool to find new words and improve vocabulary. When a word is searched, a graph
is shown which connects that word to various other words based on different
relationships between them. You can hover over each word to get its definition and also
zoom-in and zoom-out using the mouse wheel. This site may be used as a dictionary and
thesaurus.
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3. E-3
English Standard 1.0 Word Analysis, Fluency, and Systematic Vocabulary Development
Students apply their knowledge of word origins to determine the meaning of new words
encountered in reading materials and use those words accurately.
WEBSITE: http://dictionary.reference.com/
ANNOTATION: This site, known as dictionary.com. is very comprehensive. It
provides word meanings and pronunciations and various tools, such as RSS feeds to
improve vocabulary and word explorer pod casts.
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4. E-4
English Standard 1.0 Word Analysis, Fluency, and Systematic Vocabulary Development
Students apply their knowledge of word origins to determine the meaning of new words
encountered in reading materials and use those words accurately.
WEBSITE: http://thesaurus.com/
ANNOTATION: This site is part of dictionary.com and as a thesaurus gives an
elaborate description of words, the part of speech and synonyms and antonyms of that
word. It can be accessed alone or through dictionary.com.
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5. E-5
English Standard 1.0 Word Analysis, Fluency, and Systematic Vocabulary Development
Students apply their knowledge of word origins to determine the meaning of new words
encountered in reading materials and use those words accurately.
WEBSITE: http://definr.com/
ANNOTATION: This website, Definr, is a very fast dictionary. After a few key strokes
in the search box, it suggests the nearest possible words as you type. It provides spelling
and word meaning.
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6. E-6
English Standard 1.0 Word Analysis, Fluency, and Systematic Vocabulary Development
Students apply their knowledge of word origins to determine the meaning of new words
encountered in reading materials and use those words accurately.
WEBSITE: http://www.merriam-webster.com/
ANNOTATION: The Merriam Webstar online is a resource for learning and improving
English. It provides a dictionary and thesaurus, which includes Spanish-English and
medical dictionaries. It provides an audio pronunciation guide. Crosswords, word
games and a visual dictionary are also contained on this website.
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7. E-7
English Standard 1.0 Word Analysis, Fluency, and Systematic Vocabulary Development
Students apply their knowledge of word origins to determine the meaning of new words
encountered in reading materials and use those words accurately.
WEBSITE: http://www.metaglossary.com/
ANNOTATION: The metaglossary has a unique way of finding meanings of words. It
aggregates various links on the web which provide an explanation of the term and shows
the results. It pulls definitions of the word from the internet and provides web resources
for further investigation.
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8. E-8
English Standard 1.0 Word Analysis, Fluency, and Systematic Vocabulary Development
Students apply their knowledge of word origins to determine the meaning of new words
encountered in reading materials and use those words accurately.
WEBSITE: http://www.quia.com
ANNOTATION: This website is subscription only and costs money, but it allows a
teacher to produce activities, quizzes, word games, etc. very easily. There is a section
that has SAT prep words.
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9. E-9
English Standard 1.0 Word Analysis, Fluency, and Systematic Vocabulary Development
Students apply their knowledge of word origins to determine the meaning of new words
encountered in reading materials and use those words accurately.
WEBSITE: http://www.wordsmith.org/
ANNOTATION: This site delivers a “Word a Day” to your email account.
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10. E-10
English Standard 1.0 Word Analysis, Fluency, and Systematic Vocabulary Development
Students apply their knowledge of word origins to determine the meaning of new words
encountered in reading materials and use those words accurately.
WEBSITE: http://www.wordle.net/
ANNOTATION: Wordle is a tool for generating “word clouds” from text that you
provide. The clouds give greater prominence to words that appear more frequently in the
source text. Different fonts, layouts, and color schemes can be used to create beautiful
word pictures.
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11. E-11
English Standard 2.0 Reading Comprehension (Focus on Informational Materials) -
Students read and understand grade-level-appropriate material. They analyze the organizational
patterns, arguments, and positions advanced. The selections in Recommended Literature,
Kindergarten through Grade Twelve illustrate the quality and complexity of the materials to be
read by students. In addition, by grade twelve, students read two million words annually on their
own, including a wide variety of classic and contemporary literature, magazines, newspapers,
and online information.
WEBSITE: http://www.resourceroom.net/Comprehension/index.asp
ANNOTATION: This site provides materials to support struggling readers. It contains
pedagogical articles as well. The content provided aids instruction in vocabulary
development and comprehension exercises. It uses popular texts, such as Harry Potter to
organize and sequence events.
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12. E-12
English Standard 2.0 Reading Comprehension (Focus on Informational Materials) -
Students read and understand grade-level-appropriate material. They analyze the organizational
patterns, arguments, and positions advanced. The selections in Recommended Literature,
Kindergarten through Grade Twelve illustrate the quality and complexity of the materials to be
read by students. In addition, by grade twelve, students read two million words annually on their
own, including a wide variety of classic and contemporary literature, magazines, newspapers,
and online information.
WESBSITE: http://edhelper.com/ReadingComprehensions_HighSchool.html
ANNOTATION: This website provides leveled reading comprehension passages with
questions to improve literacy. These passages discuss contemporary issues and are
appropriate for both struggling readers as well as more advanced students. This site is
subscriber only. There is no cost to sign up.
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13. E-13
English Standard 3.0 Literary Response and Analysis Students read and respond to
historically or culturally significant works of literature that reflect and enhance their
studies of history and social science. They conduct in-depth analyses of recurrent
patterns and themes. The selections in Recommended Literature, Kindergarten through
Grade Twelve illustrate the quality and complexity of the materials to be read by
students.
WESBSITE: http://www.angelfire.com/ok/freshenglish/bookreportideas.html
ANNOTATION: This site lists 91 different ways to respond to literature. Multiple
intelligences, varied ability levels, traditional to cutting-edge ideas are appropriate for
elementary and secondary students. It also contains some innovative book report ideas.
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14. E-14
English Standard 3.0 Literary Response and Analysis Students read and respond to
historically or culturally significant works of literature that reflect and enhance their
studies of history and social science. They conduct in-depth analyses of recurrent
patterns and themes. The selections in Recommended Literature, Kindergarten through
Grade Twelve illustrate the quality and complexity of the materials to be read by
students.
WEBSITE: http://www.randomhouse.com/highschool/
ANNOTATION: Random house’s site allows teacher to view and order a broad range of
books in several subject areas including Language and Literature. This site could be very
beneficial in coming up with ideas for books for the upcoming school year. They are
arranges by subject area and genre.
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15. E-15
English Standard 3.0 Literary Response and Analysis Students read and respond to
historically or culturally significant works of literature that reflect and enhance their
studies of history and social science. They conduct in-depth analyses of recurrent
patterns and themes. The selections in Recommended Literature, Kindergarten through
Grade Twelve illustrate the quality and complexity of the materials to be read by
students.
WEBSITE: http://homepages.wmich.edu/~cooneys/poems/index.html
ANNOTATION: On this site, an alphabetical index links the user to poems (full-text)
by major poets, and some links include commentary and study questions.
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16. E-16
English Standard 3.0 Literary Response and Analysis Students read and respond to
historically or culturally significant works of literature that reflect and enhance their
studies of history and social science. They conduct in-depth analyses of recurrent
patterns and themes. The selections in Recommended Literature, Kindergarten through
Grade Twelve illustrate the quality and complexity of the materials to be read by
students.
WEBSITE: http://www.luminarium.org/lumina.htm
ANNOTATION: This website is divided into four main eras, Medieval, Renaissance, the
17th Century, and the restoration. Links lead to biographies, criticism, and analysis for
major British authors.
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17. E-17
English Standard 3.0 Literary Response and Analysis Students read and respond to
historically or culturally significant works of literature that reflect and enhance their
studies of history and social science. They conduct in-depth analyses of recurrent
patterns and themes. The selections in Recommended Literature, Kindergarten through
Grade Twelve illustrate the quality and complexity of the materials to be read by
students.
WEBSITE: http://www.csustan.edu/english/reuben/home.htm
ANNOTATION: This site, created by a Stanislaus University English professor, is a
research and reference guide in American Literature. This online book is organized in
chapters and appendices. The ten chapters represent the major literary and historical
perspectives, cycles, or movements in American literature; each chapter has an
Introduction, a Selected Bibliography, and a list of representative authors. The twenty-
two appendices cover a range of helpful and specialized topics in genre studies, writing
assignments, research topics, and perspectives related to American studies.
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18. E-18
English Standard 3.0 Literary Response and Analysis Students read and respond to
historically or culturally significant works of literature that reflect and enhance their
studies of history and social science. They conduct in-depth analyses of recurrent
patterns and themes. The selections in Recommended Literature, Kindergarten through
Grade Twelve illustrate the quality and complexity of the materials to be read by
students.
WEBSITE: http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/ndlpedu/index.html
ANNOTATION: The site is by the Library of Congress and provides free resources for
lesson planning, primary resources, copyright information, content connections,
presentations and activities to support the study of literature. Professional development
opportunities as well as current events are also available on the site.
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19. E-19
English Standard 1.0 Writing Strategies Students write coherent and focused essays
that convey a well-defined perspective and tightly reasoned argument. The writing
demonstrates students’ awareness of the audience and purpose. Students progress
through the stages of the writing process as needed.
WEBSITE: http://www.creativewritingprompts.com/
ANNOTATION: This site contains 347 writing prompts. The web page contains
numbers 1-347 and you must click on a number to view the prompt.
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20. E-20
English Standard 1.0 Writing Strategies Students write coherent and focused essays
that convey a well-defined perspective and tightly reasoned argument. The writing
demonstrates students’ awareness of the audience and purpose. Students progress
through the stages of the writing process as needed.
WEBSITE: http://www.thewritingsite.org/resources/genre/default.asp
ANNOTATION: The Writing Site uses a back to basics approach to teach various
writing genres. It provides a many varied writing prompts designed to generate thoughts,
ideas and eventual composition.
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21. E-21
English Standard 1.0 Writing Strategies Students write coherent and focused essays
that convey a well-defined perspective and tightly reasoned argument. The writing
demonstrates students’ awareness of the audience and purpose. Students progress
through the stages of the writing process as needed.
WEBSITE: http://support.library.ewu.edu/reference/tutorial/flash/citation.html
ANNOTATION: This interactive MLA citation guide offers its users practical
information regarding MLA citation rules and standards; but more importantly, it allows
users to practice various citations through a slide show presentation. This site resembles
that of a video game, if you will, which should be more enticing and enjoyable for
teenage and even adult users. Other style formats, such as APA, Chicago style for
historians, and CBE for biologists are also available on this site.
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22. E-22
English Standard 1.0 Writing Strategies Students write coherent and focused essays
that convey a well-defined perspective and tightly reasoned argument. The writing
demonstrates students’ awareness of the audience and purpose. Students progress
through the stages of the writing process as needed.
WEBSITE: http://www.ipl.org/div/teen/
ANNOTATION: This website is specifically designed to assist high school students in a
variety of ways, from reading and writing to issues of health and sexuality. “Teen
Space’s” most useful feature is its section called “Homework Help.” With the one click
of the mouse, a student has access to information and guidance on science projects, math
equations and essay writing. “Teen Space” is a well organized maze of hyperlinks.
“Teen Space” offers teens a forum to post, discuss and share poetry via the “Teen Poetry
Wiki” section of the site.
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23. E-23
English Standard 1.0 Writing Strategies Students write coherent and focused essays
that convey a well-defined perspective and tightly reasoned argument. The writing
demonstrates students’ awareness of the audience and purpose. Students progress
through the stages of the writing process as needed.
WEBSITE: http://owl.english.purdue.edu/owl/
ANNOTATION: The Owl at Purdue offers assistance in all matters of the many writing
processes, in an orderly, explicit and concise layout. Educational tutorials deconstruct
every aspect of writing. It also includes an excellent section on the purpose, methods and
objectives of resume writing.
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24. E-24
English Standard 2.0 Writing Applications (Genres and Their Characteristics)
Students combine the rhetorical strategies of narration, exposition, persuasion, and
description to produce texts of at least 1,500 words each. Student writing demonstrates a
command of standard American English and the research, organizational, and drafting
strategies outlined in writing Standard 1.0.
WEBSITE: http://owl.english.purdue.edu/owl/resource/588/04/
ANNOTATION: This web site sponsored by the OWL project at Purdue University
contains instruction and support for the following topics: General Writing • Research and
Citation • Teaching and Tutoring • Subject Specific Writing • Job Search Writing • ESL.
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English Standard 2.0 Writing Applications (Genres and Their Characteristics)
Students combine the rhetorical strategies of narration, exposition, persuasion, and
description to produce texts of at least 1,500 words each. Student writing demonstrates a
command of standard American English and the research, organizational, and drafting
strategies outlined in writing Standard 1.0.
WEBSITE: http://humanities.byu.edu/rhetoric/Silva.htm
ANNOTATION: This website is maintained by a professor of rhetoric at Brigham
Young University. It defines and gives examples of terms of rhetoric and those found in
literature.
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26. E-26
English Standard 2.0 Writing Applications (Genres and Their Characteristics)
Students combine the rhetorical strategies of narration, exposition, persuasion, and
description to produce texts of at least 1,500 words each. Student writing demonstrates a
command of standard American English and the research, organizational, and drafting
strategies outlined in writing Standard 1.0.
WEBSITE: http://writing.colostate.edu/collections/collection.cfm?
collectioncategory_active=62
ANNOTATION: This website focuses on common areas of writing, such as creative,
literary and expository composition. It also delves into the writing processes involving
business, civil engineering, electrical engineering, mechanical engineering, as well as
speeches and various presentations. “Writing Collections” is a well organized and
systematic maze of hyperlinks that support vocational writing as well as academic
exposition.
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English Standard 1.0 Written and Oral English Language Conventions:
Students write and speak with a command of standard English conventions.
WEBSITE: http://www.ccc.commnet.edu/grammar/
ANNOTATION: The web site is comprehensive and offers a broad array of content to
help teachers and students with any grammar question, practice or example. It also has a
section to help with paragraph development. This site has a web design that is easy to
navigate.
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28. E-28
English Standard 1.0 Written and Oral English Language Conventions:
Students write and speak with a command of standard English conventions.
WEBSITE: http://owl.english.purdue.edu/
ANNOTATION: This web site sponsored by Purdue University contains a
comprehensive grammar guide and a writing lab. It contains an APA and MLA
formatting and style guide, basic business letter and help with developing a resume.
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29. E-29
English Standard 1.0 Written and Oral English Language Conventions:
Students write and speak with a command of standard English conventions.
WEBSITE: http://www.ucalgary.ca/UofC/eduweb/grammar/
ANNOTATION: This web site sponsored by Calgary University contains the following
focus: parts of speech, sentence elements, punctuation and word use. It is an interactive
grammar guide.
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30. E-30
English Standard 1.0 Written and Oral English Language Conventions:
Students write and speak with a command of standard English conventions.
WEBSITE: http://www.powa.org/
ANNOTATION: This web site stresses basic punctuation, sentence starters and support
for the writing process. It contains articles to explain or reinforce grammatical points,
such as when to use quotation marks.
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31. E-31
English Standard 1.0 Written and Oral English Language Conventions:
Students write and speak with a command of standard English conventions.
WEBSITE: http://www.grammaruntied.com/
ANNOTATION: This comprehensive and user friendly web site offers instruction in
basic grammar, sentence structure and word choice, as well as rules for punctuation.
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English Standard 1.0 Listening and Speaking Strategies Students formulate adroit
judgments about oral communication. They deliver focused and coherent presentations
of their own that convey clear and distinct perspectives and solid reasoning. They use
gestures, tone, and vocabulary tailored to the audience and purpose.
WEBSITE: http://americanrhetoric.com/
ANNOTATION: This website contains a database and index of 5000 full text, audio
and video versions of public speeches, sermons, legal proceedings, lectures, debates,
interviews, other recorded media events, and a declarations. It also has a field for 100 top
speeches.
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33. E-33
English Standard 1.0 Listening and Speaking Strategies Students formulate adroit
judgments about oral communication. They deliver focused and coherent presentations
of their own that convey clear and distinct perspectives and solid reasoning. They use
gestures, tone, and vocabulary tailored to the audience and purpose.
WEBSITE: http://www.lib.berkeley.edu/MRC/onlinemedia.html
ANNOTATION: This website contains streamed media. Students or teachers may
search for audio and video of historical speeches.
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English Standard 2.0 Speaking Applications (Genres and Their Characteristics)
Students deliver polished formal and extemporaneous presentations that combine the
traditional rhetorical strategies of narration, exposition, persuasion, and description.
Student speaking demonstrates a command of standard American English and the
organizational and delivery strategies outlined in Listening and Speaking Standard 1.0.
WEBSITE: http://www.advertisementave.com/tv/rating.asp
ANNOTATION: This website is a repository for the top advertising commercials in the
country. Students can view them to get ideas before creating their own persuasive
speeches or papers.
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35. E-35
English Standard 2.0 Speaking Applications (Genres and Their Characteristics)
Students deliver polished formal and extemporaneous presentations that combine the
traditional rhetorical strategies of narration, exposition, persuasion, and description.
Student speaking demonstrates a command of standard American English and the
organizational and delivery strategies outlined in Listening and Speaking Standard 1.0.
WEBSITE: http://www.squidoo.com/text-speech-programs
ANNOTATION: This site has a free text to speech program that is user friendly. It
translates text to other languages or provides a spoken audio for text. This site would be
helpful for students need to hear their writing before making their own presentation or
speech.
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English Standard 2.0 Speaking Applications (Genres and Their Characteristics)
Students deliver polished formal and extemporaneous presentations that combine the
traditional rhetorical strategies of narration, exposition, persuasion, and description.
Student speaking demonstrates a command of standard American English and the
organizational and delivery strategies outlined in Listening and Speaking Standard 1.0.
WEBSITE: http://www.xtranormal.com/
ANNOTATION: This site requires an account, but it is free to sign-up. This site allows
the user to create movies by typing text that is then spoken by an AVATAR. This allows
students to creatively deliver speeches or presentations in a media that they enjoy.
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English Standard 2.0 Speaking Applications (Genres and Their Characteristics)
Students deliver polished formal and extemporaneous presentations that combine the
traditional rhetorical strategies of narration, exposition, persuasion, and description.
Student speaking demonstrates a command of standard American English and the
organizational and delivery strategies outlined in Listening and Speaking Standard 1.0.
WEBSITE: http://www.toondoo.com/
ANNOTATION: This site requires an account, but it is free to sign-up. An institutional
membership is 10 cents apiece. This site provides a vehicle for a very creative
presentation of student work. Demonstrating creative writing proficiency and using
technology in a fun way, a student can create comic strips and comic books for a quick
upload to an email account or facebook.
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English Standard 2.0 Speaking Applications (Genres and Their Characteristics)
Students deliver polished formal and extemporaneous presentations that combine the
traditional rhetorical strategies of narration, exposition, persuasion, and description.
Student speaking demonstrates a command of standard American English and the
organizational and delivery strategies outlined in Listening and Speaking Standard 1.0.
WEBSITE: http://www.doink.com/dashboard#
ANNOTATION: This site requires an account, but it is free to sign-up. This site allows
the user to create animations in flash that can easily be uploaded. This technology gives
students a creative, contemporary means of producing their work in a medium that is
familiar to them.
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English Standard 2.0 Speaking Applications (Genres and Their Characteristics)
Students deliver polished formal and extemporaneous presentations that combine the
traditional rhetorical strategies of narration, exposition, persuasion, and description.
Student speaking demonstrates a command of standard American English and the
organizational and delivery strategies outlined in Listening and Speaking Standard 1.0.
WEBSITE: http://blabberize.com/
ANNOTATION: This site requires an account, but it is free to sign-up. The user can
upload photos and “make them talk”. The uploaded sound has to be less than 2 MB.
The sound can be uploaded from a sound file or recorded with a computer microphone.
Students will enjoy being able to animate photos as part of a presentation or other
assignment.
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English Standard 2.0 Speaking Applications (Genres and Their Characteristics)
Students deliver polished formal and extemporaneous presentations that combine the
traditional rhetorical strategies of narration, exposition, persuasion, and description.
Student speaking demonstrates a command of standard American English and the
organizational and delivery strategies outlined in Listening and Speaking Standard 1.0.
WEBSITE: http://prezi.com/
ANNOTATION: This site requires an account, but it is free to sign-up for 100MB of
use. The user can create online presentations with animation, zoom and other capabilities
not enabled by traditional power point slides.
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