Mastering the Essay by Tony Maccarella
On the redesigned AP World History exam, skills matter much more than memorized content. Written responses account for 60% of your final score. A new style of multiple-choice question requires you to quickly and correctly analyze historical documents. Mastering the Essay will equip you with AL of the tools you need to move confidently through your AP World course, and earn a 5 on the exam in May. Mastering the Essay comes in two parts: an Instructional Handbook and an Exercise Workbook. The Workbook contains practice exercises designed to strengthen the skills introduced in the Instructional Handbook. The Workbook includes: - OVER 80 EXERCISES focused on building essential skills, like thesis development, document analysis, use of supporting evidence, contextualization, and analytical transitions - 14 full-length DOCUMENT-BASED QUESTIONS - A simple 3-step method for analyzing historical documents and nearly 100 PRIMARY AND SECONDARY SOURCES - COMPLETE ANSWERS AND EXPLANATIONS for each and every exercise - Exercise sets that are ORGANIZED CHRONOLOGICALY so you can choose exercises that coordinate with the topics and themes covered in class and in your textbook readingsTony Maccarella, or Mac to his pupils, has been teaching social studies since 1982 and is currently teaching AP World History and AP Macroeconomics at Saddle River Day School in Saddle River, New Jersey. Previous to this, he spent over ten years teaching AP European History at Parsippany Hills High School in Parsippany, NJ. Mac has also taught AP US History. History, Comparative Governments, Anthropology, Psychology, Microeconomics, and Military History are some of the subjects covered in this course. Tony has worked for ETS as a Reader and Table Leader for the AP European History test since 2002.
He is in charge of grading AP European History test questions, overseeing other readers, and assisting with scoring standards clarification. You might also see Tony at one of the several guest lecturer appearances he makes at social studies conferences in the Northeast. Tony is a frequent traveler. With his wife, family, and students from seven different European History classes, he has bicycled across the United States, motorcycled to Sturgis and back, studied in China, and traveled throughout Italy.
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| ISBN 13 | 9780990547181 |
| ISBN 10 | 0990547183 |
| Title | Mastering the Essay |
| Author | Tony Maccarella |
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| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Sherpa Learning, LLC |
| Year published | 2018-08-28 |
| Number of pages | 226 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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