DBQs

Hook (10-15 min) Answer the questions WITHOUT ANY HELP! (5 min) With a partner or group of three [at discretion of the teacher] share your answers and thoughts on the questions. (5 min) As a class share a few responses to each question. (5 min)

In the yellow box you will find the task of the Hook In the yellow box you will find the task of the Hook. Above the yellow box is the information you will use to answer the questions.

Background Essay (20 min) The Teacher will assign groups of two or three and give each group a paragraph or picture to analyze. In your groups read the paragraph assigned to your group and look for key words, dates, and people. (10 min) Each group will read their paragraph or explain their picture, and give the important information. (10 min)

Group one Group five Group two Group six Group three Group seven Group four Group eight Group nine

This chart goes over key dates that lead to the start of the Civil War. The important information if found within the boxes on the paragraph.

Pre-bucketing (10-15 min) Clarify the question, and hypothesize what the possible answers to the question could be.

Analyze the documents 1. What do you see? Draw a box around everything you see 2. Write the ? on top of the box 3. Mark the doc (letter/number); source; note(s) and caption(s) with an 4. Examine the source(s) 5. Consider the notes and captions 6. Close read of document

Write DBQ Question Here!

What ideas does this give you? How it relates to the DBQ The Dust Bowl: The southern plains in the 1930 1979 Donald Worster, Oxford University Press From the UK. What ideas does this give you? How it relates to the DBQ Put the details you pull here! Main Idea?

Bucketing (20 min) In groups of two or three [at the discretion of the teacher] come up with ideas that could be body of your essay.

Essay portion

What should this person change about their essay??? The essay above is an example of a low score essay. It meets the requirements of 2 points out of a possible 21 total points.

This essay is much better, but lacks the depth that it could explore This essay is much better, but lacks the depth that it could explore. It should make inferences and give possible ideas that relate to the question. This essay would receive a 12/21. It needs more background information in the introduction.

This essay meets all the requirements of the grading scale This essay meets all the requirements of the grading scale. It would receive a 21/21.