1. How to Crack the Global DBQ: 2012 Regents

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Historical Context
Task
Combined... = The Question

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Historical Context
Reminder of the “central topic”
Will always give you the three “topic choices”
***Should not be copied as your intro

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Task
“Choose Two” of the three
Pay Attention to “Trigger Words”
Be sure to cover all aspects of task!!!

5. How to Crack the Global DBQ
Look...here is how they put the DBQ together:
You will always have three “topics” or examples listed in the Historical Context.
The documents will always follow the order of the three topics.
Also, the documents will always give you information to match the trigger words in the task.
Lets look at a DBQ Question:

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Topic:
Autocratic Leaders:
Emperor Hunagdi
Peter the Great
Louis XIV

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You can’t freak out if you don’t remember everything about them...that is not the point!!!
They will give you information in the documents about these people.
You just have to be sure to deal properly with the task: what should you be looking for?
Task

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Task =
Choose Two Leaders
Actions Taken...
Helped or Hurt...

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Recap:
They give you three choices.
You want to read all the documents, and answer all of the questions in the booklet, for each document.
You get to choose the two examples that you want to write about...
That, is your essay.

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Ok...
Here is a big idea...
The documents will always be in the order of the choices listed in the historical Analysis.
Meaning...for this question...
Emperor Huangdi will be first
Peter the Great will be second
Louis XIV Third will be third

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And...
The documents, (for each of the three choices), will always follow the order of the task.
Meaning, for this question:
“Actions taken” documents will be first
“Helped or hurt” documents will be follow.

14. Essay Organization: Autocratic Leaders Choice 1 = Body 1
Actions taken (docs)
Helped or hurt (docs)
Choice 2 = Body 2

15. The Global DBQ Essay has Two Parts:
Part A of the Question:
Read Context and Task
Focus on trigger words.
Answer all of the questions on each of the documents in the booklet.
This will get you easy points, and will help you choose which two groups of documents you want to use.
Part B of the Question:
This is where you write your essay.
Reminder: many students simply answer the document questions, and ignore the actual essay, and then move on to the Thematic.

16. The Global DBQ: Introduction
Three Parts
Big Idea on Central “docs” Topic
Provide your two “choices”
Use Task to provide two key steps

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Central Topic = leaders who are autocrats
Your Choices = which to you want to write about = *Let the reader know. Which two...
Direction: Use “task triggers” to show what steps you will take.

18. Global DBQ Intro: Big Picture Choices Direction Autocrats Impact Peter
Louis
Choices
Actions
Impact: Pos/Neg
Direction

19. Global DBQ Body Paragraphs:
Choice: plug into task (solve for “X”)
Peter the Great
Actions Taken
Impact: helped or hurt
Choice: plug into task (solve for Y”)
Louis XIV