Mastering the Essay: Ap* World History Edition (Exercise Workbook) - Paperback

by Tony Maccarella (Author)

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 A new style of multiple-choice question requires you to quickly and correctly analyze historical documents.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 ALL 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and analytical transitions - 14 full-length DOCUMENT-BASED QUESTIONS - A simple 3-step method for analyzing historical documents and nearly 100 PRIMARY AND SECONDARY SOURCES - COMPLETE ANSWERS AND EXPLANATIONS for each and every exercise - Exercise sets that are ORGANIZED CHRONOLOGICALLY so you can choose exercises that coordinate with the topics and themes covered in class and in your textbook readings

Author Biography

Tony Maccarella, or as students past and present call him, "Mr. Mac," 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, NJ. Prior to this, he taught AP European History at Parsippany Hills High School, in Parsippany, NJ for over 10 years. Additionally, Mr. Mac has taught AP U.S. History, Comparative Governments, Anthropology, Psychology, Microeconomics, and Military History. Since 2002, Tony has served as a Reader and Table Leader for the AP European History exam for ETS. He is responsible for scoring AP European History exam questions, supervising other readers, and assisting with the clarification of scoring standards. You may also run into Tony at one of the many guest lecturer appearances he makes at social studies conference across the Northeast. Tony is an avid traveler. He has bicycled across the United States, motorcycled to Sturgis and back, studied in China, and traveled throughout Italy with his wife, family, and students from seven different European History classes.