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Japan Between 1450 and 1750 for AP World History
While many of our lessons on the different empires and countries between 1450 and 1750 have contained overlapping information, such as...
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China Between 1450 and 1750 for AP World History
Even though China didn’t build a colony in the New World, silver from the Americas had a profound impact on it. Read the Google Slides to...
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Empires and Kingdoms of Africa from 1450 to 1750 for AP Word History
There were many kingdoms and empires on the African continent before 1750. This section focuses on a few of kingdoms that had significant...
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Systematic and Explicit Instruction on Using Adverbs in Complete Sentences
What are Adverbs? Adverbs add information to verbs, adjectives, or other adverbs to tell about how, when, where, or to what degree an...
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Systematic and Explicit Instruction on Using Possessive Pronouns in Complete Sentences
What are Possessive Pronouns? Possessive pronouns are pronouns that show possession. Just like possessive nouns, they show when a noun...
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Systematic and Explicit Instruction on Using Possessive Nouns in Complete Sentences
What are Possessive Nouns? Possessive nouns show when someone or something owns an object. We show a possessive noun by using an...
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Systematic and Explicit Instruction on Using Helping Verbs in Complete Sentences
What are Helping Verbs? Helping verbs work with action and being verbs to give more information about when or how an action is happening....
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Systematic and Explicit Instruction on Using the Preposition “With” in Complete Sentences
What is the Preposition With? We have already learned that prepositions tell us more about when and where an action is happening in a...
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Systematic and Explicit Instruction on Using Object Pronouns in Complete Sentences
What are Object Pronouns? In the last lesson, we learned that objects are nouns that are affected by the action of a verb in a sentence....
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Systematic and Explicit Instruction on Using Objects in Complete Sentences
What are Objects in a Sentence? The object of a sentence is the person or thing that the action in the sentence is happening to or is...
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Systematic and Explicit Instruction on Using Prepositions in Complete Sentences
What is a preposition? A preposition is a word that tells you where something is or when something happens in a sentence. We usually use...
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Systematic and Explicit Instruction on Using Being Verbs in Complete Sentences
What are being verbs? Being verbs tell us what a noun is or what a noun is doing. For example, she is a doctor. We can use adjectives...
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Systematic and Explicit Instruction on Using Adjectives in Complete Sentences
What are Adjectives? Adjectives describe nouns. They can tell what a noun looks, sounds, smells, feels, or tastes like. Adjectives can...
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Everything You Need to Know About the Holy Roman Empire for AP World History
The famous saying goes, “The Holy Roman Empire wasn’t Roman, holy, or an empire.” You can read all about the Holy Roman Empire in the...
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Systematic and Explicit Instruction on Using Subject Pronouns in Complete Sentences
What are subject pronouns? Pronouns replace nouns in sentences. Subject pronouns are pronouns that replace nouns that are doing the...
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Systematic and Explicit Instruction on Using Common and Proper Nouns in Complete Sentences
What are Common and Proper Nouns? Proper nouns are nouns that name a specific person, place, or thing. We capitalize proper nouns. For...
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Systematic and Explicit Instruction on Using Past, Present, and Future Verb Tenses in Complete Sentences
What are Past, Present, and Future Verb Tenses? We use past, present, and future verb tenses to tell when an action happens. A past verb...
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How to Teach Writing Complete Sentences
Do you feel like writing is the weakest part of your instruction? Are you unsure where to start teaching your students how to write...
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Systematic and Explicit Instruction on Using Singular and Plural Nouns and Verbs in Complete Sentences
What are Singular and Plural Nouns? We use singular and plural nouns to tell how many of a noun are in a sentence. Singular nouns mean...
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Powerful Systematic and Explicit Instruction on Using Action Verbs in Complete Sentences
What is an action verb? An action verb is a word that tells what a noun is doing. We know a word is an action verb if we can act it out....
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