1. Document based question
Mrs. Arata
AP World history

2. Pre-Write Analyze the prompt FIRST!!
Set-up your categories and thesis.
You can use SPICE themes as your categories and build it out from there.
Then analyze documents using SOAPSTone or ACAPS (Author, Context, Audience, Purpose, Subject) to provide needed material for your essay.

3. thesis Parts: one SENTENCE!!
Three Parts to a Thesis:
Answer the prompt.
Provide PLACE & TIME.
Categories of analysis

4. Thesis Steps: Analyze responses to the spread of influenza in the early twentieth century.
1. Step 1:Re-statement
Ex: The responses to the global spread of flu in the early 20th century were segregation, research, and information.
2. Step 2: Passive Voice
Drop the term “were” and come up with your own verb.
Ex. Segregation, research and information systems addressed the global spread of flu in the early 20th century.
3. Step 3: Active Voice
Make sure your points are linked together to form a relationship.
Ex. As the flu spread across the globe in the early 20th century, government attempted to inform their population about it virulence, but has to turn to segregation to stop the spread, giving them the time necessary for research to develop a “cure.”

5. Body paragraph (3x) TS: Topic Sentence
*CD+CM: POV Statement & Grouping 1
**CM: Analysis, why did they say that?
CD+CM: POV Statement 2 & Grouping 2
CM: Analysis, why did they say that?
CD+CM: POV Statement 3 & Grouping 3
CS: Closing Sentence
*CD+CM: You give me a detail with some explanation.
**CM: The second commentary is the analysis, why?
Explain the document
Show your understanding of what the document means
Use the document as evidence of the prompt

6. Grouping
Example: Documents 6, 7, and 9 present the idea of how the Green Revolution led to changes in cultural lifestyles.

7. POV
In the simplest of terms, “Point of View” or “Bias” is prejudice or influence
“Why” author said what he/she said
“Why” includes factors that influenced author’s position
Keys to these factors found:
In the documents themselves (information in the box)
Through knowledge of author or of what is being said

8. Missing vOICE/ Additional vOICE
The missing voice/ additional voice comes from explaining why you want that voice, not that you mentioned it.
This can be done in one of your CM pieces in the body paragraphs.

9. Conclusion
Re-state thesis in a new way.

10. Document Analysis Read and Understand Annotate Synthesize
They need to make meaning with the words that they are reading.
Annotate
Mark them up for meaning and use that in response
Synthesize
Distill what is going on in the document to a single important facet and be able to talk about it
Understanding Point of View
What is the view of the author?

11. Rubric DBQ Essay Rubric
_______/1: Thesis that restates the prompt and specifically addresses the groupings you created
_______/1: Addresses and shows understanding of all (or all but one) of the documents
_______/2: Thesis is supported by evidence from all documents or all but one
_______/1: Analyzes POV in two or more documents
_______/1: Analyzes documents by clustering them in two or three ways
_______/1: Identifies one type of additional document and explains why it is needed
_______/2: Expanded Core
_______/9: Total
Rubric

12. Keys to success-writing a dbq
1.Skip 4-5 line between every paragraph. It allows the reader to see your paragraph breaks. It gives the reader white space, and makes it more enjoyable to read.
In addition, you may remember they want to add something, this way there is no lines or asterisks, because as readers they are busting through papers and won’t follow your arrow.