DBQ

• 7 Points

• 60 minutes

Step 1- Read Prompt Carefully

• Mark up time period

• mark Categories

• Decide or notice historical thinking skills for essay

Step 2-Read the Documents quickly

• 15 minutes

• Read one at a time

• Start at citation

Step 3- Summarize the main idea of the document in your own words

Step 4- Group your documents

• Write next to it what type of document it is

Thesis and claim→ 1 point

• Entire argument in miniature

• Must be historically defensible aka take a position + factually correct

• Must establish a line of reasoning

• Example

  • Despite the conclusion of minorities from the American national identity, the majority in the US developed a national identity to a great extent as a result of nationalizing forces after the War of 1812 and the operation of democracy during the age of Jackson

• Formula→ Restate prompt because A and B

Contextualization→ 1 point

• Better to explain events from before the time period

• 3-4 sentences that are content-rich

  • Describe historical events related to the prompt

  • Use Vocab and be specific

• Use immediate context

Evidence→ 3 Points

• Sourcing 4 documents→ 2 Points

  • Supporting an argument

    • Describe document

    • Start the next sentence with “This shows or demonstrates”

    • Write about how it proves your thesis

      • Group your documents and topic sentence

• Evidence from outside the text→ 1 Point

  • Connect specific evidence to the argument

    • Cannot be something mentioned in the documents themselves

    • Needs to come from the same time period given in the prompt

  • Name, Explain, Connect

Analysis and reasoning→ 2 points

• 1 point for sourcing 2 documents

Sourcing skills

• Historical Situation

  • Place the document in a larger historical context

• Audience

  • Demonstrate why it is important to know whom this was written for

• Purpose

  • Explain what it was intended to do

• Point of View

  • Answer “ Why does “ person” say things in the way they say it

• Y

  • Why does your sourcing analysis matter to the interpretation the document and overall argument

Example of Sourcing sentence

• The historical situation of the document is X and that matters because

1 point for complexity

• Source four documents

• OR use all 7 documents as evidence