When I was in high school, my teachers simply lectured, tested, and moved on to the next chapter. Each unit was a standardized performance repeated by the teacher every year; anything we missed was content lost and most of us finished the year with…
2015 AP Summer Institute Day 3
Day Three. Today we introduced resources on teaching Period 3 (600-1450) and dealt with the Comparison Essay. In my experience, students struggle a little more with content in Period 3. They don’t come in with the background information they had for Period…
Bucket List DBQ
Here is a lesson that was quite successful last year in getting the students familiar with grouping and analyzing documents. You can find the graphic organizers and evaluation forms (as well as a printable copy of this lesson) here. Materials…