CRQ + Enduring Issue Essay Guide
2 CRQS - Constructed Response Question (20-30 minutes)
Historical or Geographical Context (1-2 sentences)
First question asks either Historical or Geographical context of an image or document
Write the 5 W’s + H in the margin, fill it to the best of your ability with your knowledge and what is given
Your goal is to write 2 sentences about how that situation arose to be (ex: invasion of poland doc - hitler invaded and violated treaty of versailles with his army, he was conquering neighboring nations at the time during 1930 - 1950s)
POV/Purpose/Audience (1-2 sentences)
Second part will always have a document that relates to the first one (useful if you did not understand the first one as well)
POV question is analyzing what the author thinks about the topic, their opinion/perspective on it (focus on word choice and tone)
Purpose - Author’s intent on writing the document, for what reason do they have for speaking or writing this? What is their goal?
Audience - What is the author’s intended audience? Who do they want listening to them? Why are the contents of the message important to them?
Cause & Effect/Similarity or Difference/Turning Point (4 sentences)
Third part (also the easiest), you analyze how both documents relate to each other or useful for history itself. Cite or paraphrase from both documents.
Cause & Effect - How does document 1 cause document 2 to happen? (Holocaust —> Nuremberg Trials)
Similarity or Difference - Find one similarity OR one difference (pick) between ideas expressed in document 1 and 2 (Hitler and Stalin were both totalitarian leaders)
Turning Point - How does document 1 and 2 illustrate a major turning point (sudden change) in history? (Killing of Archduke and WW1 are major turning points that have resulted in many people being killed and greater conflict to occur)
Enduring Issue Essay
Planning/Reading (20-30 minutes)
Quickly scan the five documents and write down their topics
Select three documents that you know the most information in (ones u can yap up a storm in)
Find an enduring issue that relates to all three
Read the three documents, familiarize yourself
Create three main idea boxes based on each document and fill them out to the best of your ability (5 mins max on each)
You will use each box later in your three body paragraphs
Introduction (3 minutes)
Rewrite the bold section given to you —> “An enduring issue is a challenge or problem that has been debated or discussed across time. An enduring issue is one that many societies have attempted to address with varying degrees of success.”
State and explain the enduring issue (One enduring issue that has been observed is conflict. Conflict is when two nations or more fight against each other.)
List the 3 topics of the documents that illustrate the enduring issue (Conflict is seen throughout the Napoleonic Wars, the American Revolution, and the massacre in Tiananmen Square)
Body Paragraphs (1 hour)
Utilize writing strategy, HEAT for the body paragraphs
Historical Context - Who, What, When, Where, Why, How (Yap about the shit that led up to the topic and enduring issue, write it like a story in chronological order)
Evidence from document (According to doc 2… copy what you wrote on the main idea box for that doc)
Analyze - Impact, significance, evaluate (Analyze how the topic has affected history, find two impacts. How is it impactful? Evaluate and dig deeper of the impacts to score a 5)
Transition - Connect to today’s world or other similar topics (Is this still an issue today?)
Throughout your body paragraphs, you should constantly use key terms and transitional phrases. Additionally, you should circle back to the enduring issue every now and then to remind why it is significant. (This action was significant because it led to further conflicts amongst the people of America)
Conclusion (3 minutes)
Rewrite the bold section given to you —> “An enduring issue is a challenge or problem that has been debated or discussed across time. An enduring issue is one that many societies have attempted to address with varying degrees of success.”
List the 3 topics that you have discussed
Make a connection to today (Today, conflict is still an enduring issue as people in Tibet want independence from China’s rule)
The mentioned times are guidelines to keep you on track of completing the test, the written portion of the Global History Regents will take around two hours, leaving you with an hour for the multiple choice. If you are able to get the MCQ’s done earlier, that means more time to write. If you take longer to write, you could start with the CRQ’s & essay, leaving the MCQ’s last.
2 CRQS - Constructed Response Question (20-30 minutes)
Historical or Geographical Context (1-2 sentences)
First question asks either Historical or Geographical context of an image or document
Write the 5 W’s + H in the margin, fill it to the best of your ability with your knowledge and what is given
Your goal is to write 2 sentences about how that situation arose to be (ex: invasion of poland doc - hitler invaded and violated treaty of versailles with his army, he was conquering neighboring nations at the time during 1930 - 1950s)
POV/Purpose/Audience (1-2 sentences)
Second part will always have a document that relates to the first one (useful if you did not understand the first one as well)
POV question is analyzing what the author thinks about the topic, their opinion/perspective on it (focus on word choice and tone)
Purpose - Author’s intent on writing the document, for what reason do they have for speaking or writing this? What is their goal?
Audience - What is the author’s intended audience? Who do they want listening to them? Why are the contents of the message important to them?
Cause & Effect/Similarity or Difference/Turning Point (4 sentences)
Third part (also the easiest), you analyze how both documents relate to each other or useful for history itself. Cite or paraphrase from both documents.
Cause & Effect - How does document 1 cause document 2 to happen? (Holocaust —> Nuremberg Trials)
Similarity or Difference - Find one similarity OR one difference (pick) between ideas expressed in document 1 and 2 (Hitler and Stalin were both totalitarian leaders)
Turning Point - How does document 1 and 2 illustrate a major turning point (sudden change) in history? (Killing of Archduke and WW1 are major turning points that have resulted in many people being killed and greater conflict to occur)
Enduring Issue Essay
Planning/Reading (20-30 minutes)
Quickly scan the five documents and write down their topics
Select three documents that you know the most information in (ones u can yap up a storm in)
Find an enduring issue that relates to all three
Read the three documents, familiarize yourself
Create three main idea boxes based on each document and fill them out to the best of your ability (5 mins max on each)
You will use each box later in your three body paragraphs
Introduction (3 minutes)
Rewrite the bold section given to you —> “An enduring issue is a challenge or problem that has been debated or discussed across time. An enduring issue is one that many societies have attempted to address with varying degrees of success.”
State and explain the enduring issue (One enduring issue that has been observed is conflict. Conflict is when two nations or more fight against each other.)
List the 3 topics of the documents that illustrate the enduring issue (Conflict is seen throughout the Napoleonic Wars, the American Revolution, and the massacre in Tiananmen Square)
Body Paragraphs (1 hour)
Utilize writing strategy, HEAT for the body paragraphs
Historical Context - Who, What, When, Where, Why, How (Yap about the shit that led up to the topic and enduring issue, write it like a story in chronological order)
Evidence from document (According to doc 2… copy what you wrote on the main idea box for that doc)
Analyze - Impact, significance, evaluate (Analyze how the topic has affected history, find two impacts. How is it impactful? Evaluate and dig deeper of the impacts to score a 5)
Transition - Connect to today’s world or other similar topics (Is this still an issue today?)
Throughout your body paragraphs, you should constantly use key terms and transitional phrases. Additionally, you should circle back to the enduring issue every now and then to remind why it is significant. (This action was significant because it led to further conflicts amongst the people of America)
Conclusion (3 minutes)
Rewrite the bold section given to you —> “An enduring issue is a challenge or problem that has been debated or discussed across time. An enduring issue is one that many societies have attempted to address with varying degrees of success.”
List the 3 topics that you have discussed
Make a connection to today (Today, conflict is still an enduring issue as people in Tibet want independence from China’s rule)
The mentioned times are guidelines to keep you on track of completing the test, the written portion of the Global History Regents will take around two hours, leaving you with an hour for the multiple choice. If you are able to get the MCQ’s done earlier, that means more time to write. If you take longer to write, you could start with the CRQ’s & essay, leaving the MCQ’s last.
