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Pole Vaulting Your Way Through the DBQ
Teaching a young, eager, and naive student how to write a sophisticated DBQ is like teaching a similarly inexperienced athlete how to successfully...
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AP® Social Studies (8)
Black History Month: African American Experiences Post-Civil War
In honor of Black History Month, I have created a lesson that can be used for students to learn (or review what they have learned) about African...
AP® Gov: Document Analysis
Whether you felt relieved or intimidated by the nine foundational documents in AP U.S. Government and Politics after the redesign, you likely had to...
Analyzing Historians' Perspectives on the Rwandan Genocide
The following lesson plan uses the historical thinking skills of comparative and cause and effect to analyze two historians' perspectives on the...
AP® Euro: The Age of Reformation
For well over a millennium, Western Europe was unified by religious orthodoxy to the Roman Catholic Church. Although the church had been challenged...
AP® Government: The Civic Engagement Project
I was pleasantly surprised with my students’ efforts and results on the Civic Engagement project in COVID spring 2021. The student-government...
APUSH: Start Small, Finish Strong—the SAQ
Early in a school year it can be a real challenge to know how to begin teaching students critical skills they need to score on the AP® U.S. History...
The Federalists v. Anti-Federalists: A Town Hall Meeting
If you read my previous blog post, The Most Foundational Document: The U.S. Constitution, you'll have noticed a classroom activity for the...
Balancing Skill & Content in AP® World
Do you struggle with teaching over 800 years of content and building college-level skill proficiency to AP® World History students? Does teaching AP®...
AP Euro: Napoleon Bonaparte and the Complexity Point
Most AP® European History teachers try to pace their class by killing Napoleon prior to winter break. Hopefully the attached lesson plan will be...