1. Aim: How do we prepare for an AP Free Response question?
Key Words: Free Response Essay
Objective Questions:
1. How do we break down “assess?" How do we prepare an outline and thesis?

2. Free-Response Question
Assess the validity of this statement: The move towards a democratic, independent nation had its beginnings in the governments of the original thirteen colonies.

3. Democracy &WHY No Democracy &WHY NOT Independent Nation?
New England Colonies
Middle
Colonies
Southern Colonies
Which is easier to argue?
How do we connect democracy to other patterns in the colonies? What can we add to the statement?

4. Group Work
Write a thesis statement as a group

5. Sample thesis statements:
Example 1:

6. Pair Work
Write an introduction

7. Pair Work
Write the 1st body paragraph