Objective: Explain how different regional interests affected debates about the role of the federal government in the early republic.
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DBQ Day!
Pre-Write
- Ask yourself, "Can I answer this prompt without needing to read the documents?"
- Brainstorm outside information and organize it into categories
- Develop a rough, working thesis
- Mark it up, looking for evidence that matches the prompt as well as historical situation, intended audience, purpose, or point of view
- Try to fit evidence from each document into your pre-write organization
- Edit your thesis or categories as needed
- If a document contradicts what you want to say, handle it like this: "[Author of document] claimed _______, however, _______"
- Write 2-3 sentences of contextualization: What has just happened (within about 20 years before the time frame) that led into the topic of the prompt?
- It's okay to be specific in the contextualization (this will NOT count toward your point for outside evidence though)
- Write a thesis statement that responds to the prompt; this statement needs to say what the cause/effect, similarity/difference, or continuity/change actually is (do not restate the prompt and list categories)
- Write a topic sentence that aligns with the thesis, focusing on the category you are going to analyze
- [Author of document] claimed/argued _______ [paraphrase document], cite as (doc 1) at end of sentence if not obvious which document you are referring to (like if it's a graph or map)
- This shows that _______ [analysis/link to topic sentence]
- [Author of document] said this because _______ [historical situation, intended audience, purpose, point of view]
- Repeat 2-4 for each piece of evidence (2-3 if your own and not from a document)
- (Last sentence) These demonstrate _______ [link to thesis, indicating causation, comparison, or CCOT]
- Write thesis statement (to ensure alignment--sometimes in the heat of writing you may develop the thesis as you write)
- Write 2-3 sentences of contextualization: What happens next (within about 20 years after the time frame) that resulted from the topic of the prompt?
- Unicorn point: provide an alternate perspective, briefly explain a different category that wasn't asked for, account for a regional difference, synthesis (how is this topic similar to something else you know)
Objective: Explain how different regional interests affected debates about the role of the federal government in the early republic.
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