Tom Corby

My name is Tom Corby and I am in my twentieth year teaching at New Egypt High School in New Jersey (near Great Adventure). I teach USI, USII, APUSH, AP GOV, United States Military History, and America and Our National Pastime. As for credentials, I have been awarded the school’s Teacher of the Year in both 2007 and 2015. About six years ago I took EVERYTHING from files, folders, etc and linked them all on Google Drive. I created this USI class (Constitution to End of Civil War) that is complete

If you are looking for an organized Unit with a lesson by lesson breakdown that follows the College Board curriculum and pacing guide to a tee, then you are in the right place! Seven years ago I began the extremely time consuming effort to put EVERYTHING I do in my AP US Class onto Google Drive and Google Classroom for organizational purposes, as well as easier access and communication with my students. I never taught the class prior to the redesign in 2014-15 so everything in here is geared t

This activity works wonders in my class! You pit students as the workers against 2 as the business owners. They must agree to a signed contract that I review. Without knowing who is which side, I review the contract and decide which side won more benefits for their cause. The losing side gets a minus ten points om their test (that why they battle), but what they don't know is that after I declare the winner for each group, the losers can get their ten points back my researching famous strikes in