DBQ Day 1 Turn in your complete Learner Profile assignment (2 papers). Put in the tray on Ms. Hooker’s desk. Take a handout from the front desk. 10 minutes to complete with your group. NO PHONES TODAY.  Put them AWAY. Keep up with the DBQ activities. If you participate, you won’t be bored and you’ll write a better essay.

An Inconvenient Truth

DBQ: Should Americans Be Required to Vote? Everyone knows that voting is important for a democracy. However, just because voting is important doesn’t mean everyone does it. In the most recent presidential election less than 60% of eligible voters participated. Why don’t more people vote? Does it matter if people don’t vote? How might voter turnout be increased?

DBQ Day 2 Take out your DBQ Packet – if you weren’t here yesterday, see Ms. Hooker. NO PHONES TODAY until I give you specific permission.  Put them AWAY. Keep up with the DBQ activities. If you participate, you won’t be bored and you’ll write a better essay.

DBQ: Should Americans Be Required to Vote? Hook Exercise “Compulsory” means required Task: List at least one pro and one con for each rule option. Then select and star (*) the rule you think is best. Be ready to discuss.

DBQ: Should Americans Be Required to Vote? Hook Exercise Complete chart Background Essay Read, answer the questions, define the terms. Understanding the Question Break down what you are being asked to respond to by answering the questions. Pre-Bucketing Top buckets: What are the two possible ways that you can answer this question?

DBQ: Should Americans Be Required to Vote? Background Essay What are three reasons voting is important to democracy? What are three ways voter turnout might be increased? What is compulsory voting?

DBQ: Should Americans Be Required to Vote? Understanding the Question What is our analytical question? What are the two possible ways to answer this question? What words need to be defined to grasp the question? How would you ask this question in your own words?

Wednesday 8/10 Looking at the documents Independent Document Analysis Review knowledge building/preparation portion of DBQ Hook exercise chart Background Essay w/questions “Understanding the question” questions Pre-bucketing top buckets Looking at the documents What kinds of documents will we be looking at? Independent Document Analysis Be ready to discuss them tomorrow

DBQ Day 3 Take out your DBQ Packet – if you weren’t here yesterday, see Ms. Hooker. NO PHONES TODAY until I give you specific permission.  Put them AWAY. Keep up with the DBQ activities. If you participate, you won’t be bored and you’ll write a better essay.

Document A What is this document? Where did it come from (source)? What does it show? How would you use this document to argue FOR compulsory voting? AGAINST compulsory voting?

Document A For Against Compulsory voting works in 1/5 of the world’s nations. Some of these countries have been doing it for many decades. If it didn’t work, they would get rid of it, wouldn’t they? These countries are nothing like the U.S. population or physical size wise. So saying that it works in some countries does not automatically mean it’ll work in the U.S. It’s like comparing apples to oranges.

Document B What is this document? Where did it come from (source)? What does it show? How would you use this document to argue FOR compulsory voting? AGAINST compulsory voting?

Document B For Against If we require younger people to vote, issues that are important to them might finally be addressed in our government and then they’ll see the point of voting. Plus there’s no better way of building experience than by getting experience! Do we really need uneducated people voting? Won’t they make poor voting choices? Won’t they be uninformed about the important issues?

Document C What is this document? Where did it come from (source)? What does it show? How would you use this document to argue FOR compulsory voting? AGAINST compulsory voting?

Document C For Against Voting is an easy thing to do, it doesn’t cause undue restrictions on our rights, and it’s similar to other civic duties we are already required to do like jury duty. But telling Americans they MUST do something it IS a restriction. Period. And again, it’s not appropriate to compare us with countries like Zambia; the U.S. is very different than almost any other country.

Document D What is this document? Where did it come from (source)? What does it show? How would you use this document to argue FOR compulsory voting? AGAINST compulsory voting?

Document D For Against Government cannot really know what the people want for their country if people don’t participate in elections. If Americans are happy with the way things are, without compulsory voting, why change things?

Document E What is this document? Where did it come from (source)? What does it show? How would you use this document to argue FOR compulsory voting? AGAINST compulsory voting?

Document E For Against Having an effective system in place with experience poll workers makes the voting process efficient. That means that any inconvenience to citizens will be minimal as long as the kinks ae worked out. Forcing people to vote sometimes just results in blank ballots. What’s the point of that? It seems like a total waste of time and tax-payer money.

Document F What is this document? Where did it come from (source)? What does it show? How would you use this document to argue FOR compulsory voting? AGAINST compulsory voting?

Document F For Against Being forced to vote makes people more aware of the issues that their community is facing. Unless you come into contact with issues like poor schools on a regular basis, you may not care about them. So voting gets people to care a little more and have an opinion. People actually may be overwhelmed by the many problems facing their community. Or they may not even bother getting informed since there is so much a voter needs to know.

Document G What is this document? Where did it come from (source)? What does it show? How would you use this document to argue FOR compulsory voting? AGAINST compulsory voting?

Document G For Against Voting is a thing that good citizens do. But voting without knowing the issues is a reckless and irresponsible thing to do.

How are you going to answer the DBQ question How are you going to answer the DBQ question? Should Americans be required to vote? YES NO Compulsory voting works in 1/5 of the world’s nations. Some of these countries have been doing it for many decades. If it didn’t work, they would get rid of it, wouldn’t they? (Doc A) If we require younger people to vote, issues that are important to them might finally be addressed in our government and then they’ll see the point of voting. Plus there’s no better way of building experience than by getting experience! (Doc B) Voting is an easy thing to do, it doesn’t cause undue restrictions on our rights, and it’s similar to other civic duties we are already required to do like jury duty. (Doc C) Government cannot really know what the people want for their country if people don’t participate in elections. (Doc D) Having an effective system in place with experience poll workers makes the voting process efficient. That means that any inconvenience to citizens will be minimal as long as the kinks ae worked out. (Doc E) Being forced to vote makes people more aware of the issues that their community is facing. Unless you come into contact with issues like poor schools on a regular basis, you may not care about them. So voting gets people to care a little more and have an opinion. (Doc F) Voting is a thing that good citizens do. (Doc G) These countries are nothing like the U.S. population or physical size wise. So saying that it works in some countries does not automatically mean it’ll work in the U.S. It’s like comparing apples to oranges. (Doc A) Do we really need uneducated people voting? Won’t they make poor voting choices? Won’t they be uninformed about the important issues? (Doc B) But telling Americans they MUST do something it IS a restriction. Period. And again, it’s not appropriate to compare us with countries like Zambia; the U.S. is very different than almost any other country. (Doc C) If Americans are happy with the way things are, without compulsory voting, why change things? (Doc D) Forcing people to vote sometimes just results in blank ballots. What’s the point of that? It seems like a total waste of time and tax-payer money. (Doc E) People actually may be overwhelmed by the many problems facing their community. Or they may not even bother getting informed since there is so much a voter needs to know. (Doc F) But voting without knowing the issues is a reckless and irresponsible thing to do. (Doc G)

DBQ Day 4 Take out your DBQ Packet – be prepared to show your work on Documents D-G. NO PHONES TODAY until I give you specific permission.  Put them AWAY. Keep up with the DBQ activities. If you participate, you won’t be bored and you’ll write a better essay.

Today’s Agenda Bucketing and Thesis Statement How will you answer the analytical question? What 3 reasons will you use to explain your answer? Which documents (2 for each reason!) will you cite evidence from? Begin preparing the pre-writing outline

Steps to Write Your Essay Complete the documents. You need to know what’s in them so you can pull text evidence from them. Use the buckets to determine what your reasons are and which documents you will use. Write a thesis roadmap. Use the outline to plan each paragraph. Use the completed outline to write a rough draft.