Karen Cobb Carroll, Ph.D., NBCT
I teach AP English Language, AP Psychology, Honors Civics/Economics, and Leadership Development at the Early College at Guilford, Greensboro, North Carolina. I have been teaching over twenty years at the middle and high school levels in both English and history departments. I served as an AP essay reader and table leader for APUSH for eight years, and currently read examination essays for AP Psychology.
Resources created by Karen Cobb Carroll, Ph.D., NBCT
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- The Declaration of Independence
- In Where English and history meet: A collaboration guide, page 5
- In this interdisciplinary lesson, students will examine the role of the Declaration of Independence in the development of the American Revolution and as part of the American identity. They will also analyze the argumentative structure and write their own declaration.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 9–10 English Language Arts and Social Studies)
- By Karen Cobb Carroll, Ph.D., NBCT.
- George Washington and Frederick Douglass letters: Recognizing point of view and bias
- In Where English and history meet: A collaboration guide, page 4
- This lesson uses two letters written by famous individuals. Frederick Douglass, a well-known former slave who became a leader of the American abolition movement, escaped from slavery in Maryland to freedom in New York in 1838. George Washington was a large slaveholder in Virginia (as well as the first president of the United States).
- Format: lesson plan (grade 9–12 English Language Arts and Social Studies)
- By Karen Cobb Carroll, Ph.D., NBCT.
- Hamilton and Burr: Compare and contrast
- In Where English and history meet: A collaboration guide, page 2
- This lesson plan compares Alexander Hamilton, the first United States Secretary of the Treasury, and Aaron Burr, Thomas Jefferson’s Vice President. The lesson plan uses the duel between the two (at which Hamilton was fatally wounded) as an opportunity to contrast two early political leaders that have stark similarities as well as definite differences.
- Format: article
- By Karen Cobb Carroll, Ph.D., NBCT.
- High school history and English: Natural partners
- In Where English and history meet: A collaboration guide, page 1
- Strategically plan a collaborative unit and overcome those everyday obstacles that prevent success. While this article focuses specifically on English-history collaboration, there is much to kindle the interest of any high school teachers.
- By Karen Cobb Carroll, Ph.D., NBCT.
- The Johnstown Flood: Cause and effect
- In Where English and history meet: A collaboration guide, page 3
- This lesson plan combines work with the Johnstown Flood, one of the most significant news events of the late nineteenth century, and the development of cause and effect argument.
- By Karen Cobb Carroll, Ph.D., NBCT.
