LEQ CCOT Blueprint and Strategy Guide

How do you visualize historical continuity and change? How do you organize decades' worth of historical evidence in an easily readable way? How do you produce a Long Essay Question (LEQ) that hits all six points on the AP History rubric in less than 35 minutes? 

At Mano Koa Enterprises, we say "No Pilikia" (Hawaiian for problem). 

This product contains a collection of documents designed to give students and teachers alike multiple strategies for answering Long Essay Questions (LEQs) on the Advanced Placement History Tests. If students find themselves struggling with producing a standard product because of time constraints, Mano Koa Enterprises has developed the "short game strategy" allowing students to satisfy the same criteria but in a differentiated way.

The AP History LEQ CCOT product contains the following.

• A Standard LEQ CCOT Blueprint with sentence frames and easy to read rubric for teachers and students to plan.
• A Differentiated and sentence framed "Short Game" LEQ CCOT Blueprint designed to show students a less labor intensive/more time effective way of writing their LEQs while maintaining the same academic rigor.
• A "How to Build and Defend Your Thesis" guide designed to teach students the purpose of a thesis and how it helps their argument.
• A "Ten Commandments of Academic Writing" guide designed to help students maintain a formal voice when writing academically.
• A series of Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ) guides designed to help teachers implement these blueprints into their curriculum.
• An instructional manual for teachers to read and understand the finer points of implementing short and long game formats in timed writes.

Want the full free-write experience? Check out the OMNIBUS!
Mano Koa Enterprises has developed an omnibus collection of everything a teacher needs for AP History free writes including.

• 2 styles of Document Based Questions (DBQ) blueprints (Standard and "Short Game" format).
• 6 different LEQ blueprints (CCOT, Comparison and Causation in both Standard and differentiated "Short Game" format)
• 1 4-step Multiple Choice Question (MCQ) strategy guide.
• 1 3-step Short Answer Question (SAQ) with differentiated options to account for space.
• The Ten Commandments of Academic Writing for writing mechanics.
• Frequently Asked Questions (FAQs) for curriculum implementation.
• A "How to Build and Defend Your Thesis" guide to help students sharpen their thesis and argumentation skills. 

Feel free to contact Mano Koa Enterprises if you have any questions. Good luck and no pilikia when it comes to timed writes.