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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

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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

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