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Japan 1750 to 1900: A Free AP World History Resource
Japan had isolated itself during the Tokugawa shogunate, but it couldn’t ignore the progress of the world around it when Commodore...
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The Prefix UN-: A FREE Morphology Lesson
Morphology is a powerful tool for teaching older students both decoding longer words and understanding new vocabulary words. We use the...
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The Suffix -ED: A FREE Morphology Lesson
Morphology is a powerful tool for teaching older students both decoding longer words and understanding new vocabulary words. We use the...
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The Suffix -EST: A FREE Morphology Lesson
Morphology is a powerful tool for teaching older students both decoding longer words and understanding new vocabulary words. We use the...
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The Suffix -ER: A FREE Morphology Lesson
Morphology is a powerful tool for teaching older students both decoding longer words and understanding new vocabulary words. We use the...
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The Suffix -ING: A FREE Morphology Lesson
Morphology is a powerful tool for teaching older students both decoding longer words and understanding new vocabulary words. We use the...
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How to Make Plural Nouns: A FREE Morphology Lesson
Morphology is a powerful tool for teaching older students both decoding longer words and understanding new vocabulary words. We use...
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What are Base Words? A FREE Morphology Lesson
Morphology is a powerful tool for teaching older students both decoding longer words and understanding new vocabulary words. A base word...
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Imperialism in China: A Free AP World History Resource
For most of world history, China remained isolated from the European powers. However, that changed as the militaries of Europe became...
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How Britain Colonized India for AP World History
Do you want to review some of the history you learned about India in earlier lessons? Do you want to learn how Queen Victoria became the...
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The Industrial Revolution for AP World History
The Industrial Revolution brought technological advancements that changed the world in many ways. Farming became more efficient, so fewer...
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Independence Movements in Latin America for AP World History
The Age of Exploration led to the colonization of the Americas and unprecedented changes in Europe. Europeans settled in the Americas,...
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The Story of Napoleon Bonaparte for AP World History
Napoleon Bonaparte/public domain Napoleon Bonaparte emerged from the disaster of the French Revolution. His reign in France lasted for...
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The French Revolution for AP World History
The French Revolution came not long after the American Revolution. Learn about the similarities and differences between the American and...
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The American Revolution for AP World History
You need to understand the causes of the American Revolution and its place in the global network for the AP World History Test. You do...
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New Technologies and Their Consequences Between 1450 and 1750 for AP World History
In all of our lessons on the different empires and countries of Europe, Asia, and Africa between 1450 and 1750, technology has played a...
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Systematic and Explicit Instruction on Recognizing the Subject and Predicate in Complete Sentences
What are the subject and predicate of a sentence? Subject and predicate are two vocabulary words we can use to talk about sentences....
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Systematic and Explicit Instruction on Using Subordinating Conjunctions in Complete Sentences
Subordinating conjunctions are words that connect dependent clauses and independent clauses in a sentence. A dependent clause is a part...
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Systematic and Explicit Instruction on Using Transition Words in Complete Sentences
What are transition words? Transition words help us keep our writing organized. They can put ideas and events in time order or order of...
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Systematic and Explicit Instruction on Using Coordinating Conjunctions in Complete Sentences
What are Coordinating Conjunctions? Coordinating conjunctions are words that connect words, phrases, or clauses of equal grammatical...
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