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Where English and history meet: A collaboration guide
Strategically plan a collaborative unit and learn how to overcome those everyday obstacles that prevent success. This guide is accompanied by four lesson plans to help you put collaboration into practice.
Format: series (multiple pages)
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., and NBCT.
Who started the Civil War?: Comparing perspectives on the causes of the war
This lesson plans presents the account of Rose O'Neal Greenhow, a confederate spy during the Civil War. Students are encouraged to find confirming and refuting evidence of her perspective on what caused the Civil War by browsing the Documenting the American South Collection of digitized primary sources.
Format: lesson plan (grade 11–12 Social Studies)
By Meghan Mcglinn.
Finding your audience: a primer
In Writing for the Web, page 3
Before you sit down to write something, ask yourself some questions about the people who will read it.
By David Walbert.
Guidelines for being a good online learner
The elements that ensure success in an online learning environment are slightly different than those in a traditional classroom. These guidelines will help ensure your success as an online learner.
Format: article/help

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Program under which high school students take advanced coursework and receive college credit for acceptable scores on nationally administered tests.

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Advanced Placement programs were adopted in the U.S. in 1956 and are administered by the College Board, a not-for-profit association of secondary and higher education organizations offering programs related to college admission (including the SAT), assessment, financial aid, and enrollment.