Essays

Remember that each bullet point is a paragraph

Short essay questions (2-3 paragraphs)

• Relationship

  • Depict which of these 3/4 will be the best between the 2 articles.

    • Cause and Effect

    • Similarity o Difference

    • Turning Point

  • Pick the easiest because you still have the “bigger” essay

• Historical Context

  • Find the relevant historical circumstance that surrounds the 2 documents

    • Use either:

      • Purpose

      • Audience

      • Bias

      • Point of View

  • Explain how any of these arguments best affects the documents use as a reliable source of evidence to your claim of background information.

Civic Literacy Essay (5 paragraphs); might want to do this right after the multiple choice to not get burnt out.

• Pick 4 documents out of the 6

  • Pick the ones that you are sure you can talk about.

• On the questions about the documents, do NOT use “because”, it will take up too much time.

• Try to answer those questions first to get a basic gist of the articles.