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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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Ask an Expert, Part 3 – Earning the Complexity ...
Tony walks us through an example for using a counterargument to earn the Complexity point in a Long-Essay Question response.
Ask an Expert, Part 3 – Earning the Complexity Point through a Counterargument, An Example
Tony walks us through an example for using a counterargument to earn the Complexity point in a Long-Essay Question response.
Ask an Expert, Part 2 – 4 Ways for Earning the ...
Tony Maccarella is at it again, this time with 4 methods students should know for earning the elusive Complexity point on the AP World History Modern and AP Euro exams.
Ask an Expert, Part 2 – 4 Ways for Earning the Complexity Point
Tony Maccarella is at it again, this time with 4 methods students should know for earning the elusive Complexity point on the AP World History Modern and AP Euro exams.
Ask an Expert, Part 1 - Best way to earn the CO...
In Part 1 of our “Ask an Expert” series for AP World History Modern, author Tony Maccarella explains the best way to earn the Contextualization point on your AP Exam...
Ask an Expert, Part 1 - Best way to earn the CONTEXTUALIZATION point
In Part 1 of our “Ask an Expert” series for AP World History Modern, author Tony Maccarella explains the best way to earn the Contextualization point on your AP Exam essays.