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Ch-ch-ch-ch-changes! Addressing the New Multipl...
Big changes are coming in 2015 to the AP US History test. This means teachers will have to revise their lesson plans to help prepare students to think like a...
Ch-ch-ch-ch-changes! Addressing the New Multiple-Choice Format
Big changes are coming in 2015 to the AP US History test. This means teachers will have to revise their lesson plans to help prepare students to think like a historian, rather than recall like a Jeopardy contestant.
Teaching to the New Multiple-Choice Format
One of the new challenges—at least for this first year and the learning curve that comes along with it—will be finding balance between teaching content knowledge while ensuring students are...
Teaching to the New Multiple-Choice Format
One of the new challenges—at least for this first year and the learning curve that comes along with it—will be finding balance between teaching content knowledge while ensuring students are thinking like historians, critically evaluating how events are interconnected in the cause and effect continuum that is our history.
Analyze This: The DBQ Essay in 2015
As teachers tackle the challenge of educating their students on the process of document analysis, they must focus their instruction and their students minds on analysis like never before
Analyze This: The DBQ Essay in 2015
As teachers tackle the challenge of educating their students on the process of document analysis, they must focus their instruction and their students minds on analysis like never before
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Winning the Sourcing Point: Synthesis and Analy...
Master the most challenging points on the AP® History rubric by bridging rhetorical and historical analysis to achieve the sophisticated document sourcing and argument synthesis required for top-tier exam scores.
Winning the Sourcing Point: Synthesis and Analysis in AP History (Part 3)
Master the most challenging points on the AP® History rubric by bridging rhetorical and historical analysis to achieve the sophisticated document sourcing and argument synthesis required for top-tier exam scores.
Winning the Complexity Point: Using Evidence in...
Learn how to master the elusive Complexity point by transforming primary source evidence into a cohesive historical conversation using proven instructional strategies from veteran AP Exam Readers.
Winning the Complexity Point: Using Evidence in AP History (Part 2)
Learn how to master the elusive Complexity point by transforming primary source evidence into a cohesive historical conversation using proven instructional strategies from veteran AP Exam Readers.
Mastering the DBQ: How Inquiry Drives Better Wr...
Discover how to move students beyond a "flashcard mentality" by using historical inquiry and precise definitions to build the sophisticated lines of reasoning required for AP® History DBQ and LEQ...
Mastering the DBQ: How Inquiry Drives Better Writing (Part 1)
Discover how to move students beyond a "flashcard mentality" by using historical inquiry and precise definitions to build the sophisticated lines of reasoning required for AP® History DBQ and LEQ success.