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Strive for a 5 for America's History
Eighth Edition| ©2014 Warren Hierl; Louisa Bond Moffitt; Nancy Schick
Strive for a 5: Preparing for the AP® United States History Exam provides a thorough student review of American history with tips for test preparation. Designed to accompany the eight edition of America's History, and written by some of the most repsected and experienced AP(r) US History t...
Strive for a 5: Preparing for the AP® United States History Exam provides a thorough student review of American history with tips for test preparation. Designed to accompany the eight edition of America's History, and written by some of the most repsected and experienced AP(r) US History teachers in the country, Strive for a 5, gives students thepractice they need to succeed in the redesigned AP® US History course and on the exam.
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Strive for a 5: Preparing for the AP® United States History Exam provides a thorough student review of American history with tips for test preparation. Designed to accompany the eight edition of America's History, and written by some of the most repsected and experienced AP(r) US History teachers in the country, Strive for a 5, gives students thepractice they need to succeed in the redesigned AP® US History course and on the exam.
Features
- Practice questions for each period, including new stiumulus-based multiple choice, short answer, long essay and document-based questions
- Practical Strategies for taking the exam
- Essay writing advice
- Period overviews that address the key concepts and central themes students need to master
- Two full length AP(r) style practice exams in the new exam format
- Available in bundle packages of 25, 50 and 100 at a discounted rate.
- Can be packaged with America's History 8E at a discounted rate
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Strive for a 5 for America's History
Eighth Edition| ©2014
Warren Hierl; Louisa Bond Moffitt; Nancy Schick
Strive for a 5 for America's History
Eighth Edition| 2014
Warren Hierl; Louisa Bond Moffitt; Nancy Schick
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Strive for a 5 for America's History
Eighth Edition| 2014
Warren Hierl; Louisa Bond Moffitt; Nancy Schick
Authors
Warren Hierl
Warren Hierl taught Advanced Placement U.S. History at the Career Center in Winston-Salem, North Carolina, for twenty-eight years. He has conducted more than ninety one-day Advanced Placement workshops, more than eight five-week long Advanced Placement Summer Institutes throughout the Southeast, and more than seventy pre-AP workshops throughout the country. He was a member of the committee that wrote the original Advanced Placement Social Studies Vertical Teams Guide and, with Nancy Schick, the Advanced Placement U.S. History Teachers Guide. He has been a reader, a table leader, and, for the past eight years, the question leader on the DBQ at the AP U.S. History reading.
Louisa Bond Moffitt
Louisa Bond Moffitt holds a Ph.D. in U.S. History and has been teaching AP United States history at Marist School in Atlanta, Georgia, for more than twenty-eight years. She has been involved with the AP U.S. History reading for many years, serving as an exam leader and assistant chief reader for that exam. She is currently working as the question leader for the alternate AP U.S. History exam. In addition, she has been a member of the AP U.S. History test development committee, as well as several other test development committees. She has also coauthored a number of textbooks dealing with international relations built around conversations among former U.S. secretaries of state and defense. She has been active in the field of Middle East studies and has been recognized by the Middle East Studies Association for her work with both students and teachers. She is the chair of the History Department at Marist School and leads numerous AP U.S. workshops during the summers and throughout the school year.
Nancy Schick
Nancy Schick holds a B.A. in political science from Michigan State University and an M.A.T. from the University of Pittsburgh. She taught AP U.S. History and AP European History for nearly twenty years at Los Alamos High School in New Mexico. She has been a reader, table leader, and exam leader for AP U.S. history for many years and served four years on the AP U.S. History Development Committee. She has led over forty summer institutes and many workshops in several states and farther afield in Saipan and El Salvador. She has received grants from the National Endowment for the Humanities, the Gilder Lehrman Institute, the Goethe Institute, and the U.S. Institute of Peace. She was a Fulbright-Hays scholar in Southeast Asia, a Presidential Scholar Distinguished Teacher five times, and the 2005 New Mexico Teacher of the Year.
Strive for a 5 for America's History
Eighth Edition| 2014
Warren Hierl; Louisa Bond Moffitt; Nancy Schick
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