This article describes 10 recommendations for creativity, higher-order thinking, and meaningful learning activities that can be used to guide teachers in constructing an engaging AP course: (1) Be on the committee that decides how students will be selected for AP; (2) Maximize time and connections through blocks of time with an English colleague; (3) Take an AP prep course; (4) When the budget allows you to purchase a new book, examine a lot of texts before selecting one; (5) Select outside readings that address historiography and give students opportunities to explore competing explanations for historical phenomena; (6) Assume that students need to acquire good reading, outlining, and note-taking skills and allot time throughout the course to address these needs; (7) Plan your course around essential questions--upper level, over-arching questions, worthy of discussion; (8) Make use of documentaries and feature films; (9) Assign a process paper as part of the research paper experience; and (10) Create engaging, varied assignments that put the onus on students to employ documents and content in the service of historical analysis.