1. SCORING THE EXAM
Find your LEQ’s and sit there; take out a sheet of paper, pen or pencil

2. Breaking down the LEQ
Evaluate the extent to which women’s lives changed as a result of the Progressive Era (1890–1920) of United States history.
What is the targeted skill?
What information needs to be provided in my introduction for contextualization?
What evidence can I provide? But more importantly, how am I using that evidence to support my thesis?
What is my claim? To what extent…

3. TAKE OUT A SHEET OF PAPER

4. CONTEXTUALIZATION
CONTEXTUALIZATION - Deconstruct the prompt/find background:
Time period? Content?
Progressive Era and women –
Era of intense social and political reform aimed at making progress toward a better society.
Similar to Antebellum Era in which reform minded groups attempted to change laws for betterment of society
Both led by women certain issues regarding temperance, suffrage

5. CONTEXTUALIZATION Observation from samples: Tips for going forward:
Started too early
Used specific evidence
Used irrelevant evidence
Tips for going forward:
Know what the prompt is asking (stop only thinking about what you know and answer what is being asked)
Define appropriate terms based on task
Progressive Era role of women link together

6. THESIS
Although Amendments were passed to further the goals of women, limited economic opportunities and the continuation of gender spheres and the cult of domesticity limited women. Therefore, the Progressive Era kept more the same than changed circumstances for women.

7. THESIS Observation from samples: Tips going forward:
Political, social and economic ---- STOP, STOP, STOP
Changes and continuities – there are more CONTINUITIES but you argued CHANGES
Tips going forward:
Make topics more specific to task – make a claim that encompasses EVERYTHING you can talk about in bodies
Progressive era politics (women) – suffrage, temperance, social gospel
Progressive era economics (women) – job opportunities; pay; domestic work
Progressive era social (women) – emergence of flapper – breaking social norms, birth control
Bringing it all together –
Although politically women achieved advantages in voting, partipated in the social gospel movement and ended abuses of alcohol, economically they were still confined to domestic work and socially made some advances but were mainly confined to secondary roles to men, therefore, the Progressive era did not lead to significant changes in the lives of women in the United States.

8. EVIDENCE & SKILL

9. EVIDENCE & SKILL Observation from samples: Tips going forward:
Off topic - nowhere near Progressive Era and not brought back
Run on w/o evidence
Sample vague
“Some women argued for reform” – which ones? When? What associations were they in? what did they accomplish?
Tips going forward:
Refer back to thesis – what am I trying to say? What evidence am I using to say that? Use specifics and keep relevant
Does this display change? Continuity? And HOW?

10. EVIDENCE & SKILL

11. ARGUMENT DEVELOPMENT
EVIDENCE
ARGUMENT USING EVIDENCE

14. MULTIPLE CHOICE