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    AP Euro: Catherine The Great–Englightened Or Not?

    One of the greatest rewards of teaching history is when students are able to show that they can think in a complex manner and recognize that history is often muddled with differing interpretations and controversies. Catherine the Great is one of the...

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    Hispanic Heritage Month: 6 Books to Add to Your Classroom Library

    Back in college, an older Latino gentleman asked me, “When you have kids one day, are you going to raise them as Mexican or white?” The question...

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    Analytical Writing Templates and Starters

    Join Dr. Brandon Abdon and Timm Freitas from The Garden of English to discuss templated essay writing strategies.

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    ELA Activity: Practice Annotating Texts

    Annotation is a life skill, especially for our college-bound students. Reading something with a purpose, a strategy to comprehend at a higher level,...

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    Top 5 Takeaways From the 2023 AP® Language Exam

    While the 2023 AP English Language and Composition exam represents year 4 of assessment using the analytic scoring guide and year 3 of the changes to...

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    AP® World History: Comparison, Continuity, and Causation

    Do your students struggle to understand the difference between Comparison, Continuity, and Causation when writing essays? Using this presentation...

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    Books Your Students Might Have Missed Over Summer Break

    For some students, summer is an exit from all things academic and literature, which means they might be coming back in the fall clueless on the...

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    The AP Rubric: Scoring, Grading, and the Sophistication Point

    Join Dr. Brandon Abdon, Senior Author of our AP English Literature and AP English Language coursebooks, for a deep dive into the rubric, strategies,...

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    Behavioral Immaturity in the Middle School Classroom

    You feel it, I feel it, we all feel it: group dynamics are different now. I started this article with a rather long lament about it. We don’t have as...

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    Interview with a Character (ELA Activity)

    There are so many more interesting methods to writing a character analysis than writing an analysis paragraph. Oftentimes, English or language arts...

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