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    AP® World History (2)

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    Bringing Primary Sources to Life: Engaging Ways to Teach Documents Beyond Close Reading

    Primary sources provide students with a personal window into the past, enabling them to view history as human stories rather than a list of facts....

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    Working for the Finish Line (AP Histories Webinar)

    This interactive webinar focuses on scaffolded approaches to the finishing touches necessary for higher-level success on the LEQ and DBQ portions of...

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    Nailing the 5 and Shooting for the 6 on an AP History DBQ

    Join AP experts Brandon Abdon, Colin Baker, and Bob Topping to discover scaffolded approaches to teaching the APUSH, AP Euro, and AP World History...

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    AP Human Geography: How to Improve FRQ Responses

    This blog entry is designed to provide some hints to help your students improve their writing on the free-response section of the exam. The...

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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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    How to Approach the 2023 AP® World History Exam

    Experienced AP World History teacher Dave Drzonek and AP World History Exam table leader Charlie Hart discuss what students did well and what they...

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    Women's History Month: Gender and Disease in World History

    In celebration of Women's History Month, explore this lesson with your students that gives them the opportunity to practice an important part of the...

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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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    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...

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