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Welcome to the interactive program
designed to assist both students and
parents in understanding the
fundamentals of writing a Document
Based Question.
The program is designed to take you
through the parts of a Document Based
Question.
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To effectively navigate through this
program, the user is asked to follow
some simple directions.
1. Proper navigation will occur with the
use of the forward and Backward
buttons located at the bottom of the
slides.
2. Throughout the program, there will be
the opportunity to view examples, just
click on the word example, and you
will be shown benchmarks.
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Become familiar with the DBQ
Utilize the documents
Meet the DBQ standards
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•A Document Based Question (DBQ) is
designed to test the student’s ability to
analyze documentary materials and to
use the materials to support an essay
•This assessment requires the use of
specific skills such as interpretation,
analysis, integration, and synthesis.
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Scaffolding
Strategy
Essay Design
Thesis
Referencing
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art 1
Scaffolding
Building with your
objective (the
essay) in mind.
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A document is a printed or written
paper that provides the student
with facts, or information.
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Only thirteen years old, Maria works at Sung Sil A.S., a . . .
General
of 1789
was
firstismeeting
French constructed
Estates-General,
Machine
shop
. . the
Which
locatedof
in the
a recently
factory park ten miles outside Guatemala City. Maria lives
with her brothers, her parents, and her grandmother in a
two-room shack on a dirt road near the modern factory.
She does not attend school and cannot read. But Maria
can sew – for eleven hours a day, six days a week she
works. When management requires, she works until 3:00
a.m. and then rises four hours later to begin again.
(Aug 2000)
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Read the Task
Examine Document
Answer Scaffolding
Develop Essay
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• Underline the content
words: [time, period,
location, topic area
(What are you suppose
to know)]
• Underline the question
words: (What are you
suppose to do)
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Interpretation: To make clear or intelligible through
examples
Analyze: To determine the nature and relationship of
the component elements.
Synthesis: To bring the component parts together.
Evaluate: To examine and judge the significant
worth, or condition of; to determine the value of.
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Historical Context:
Despite the horrors of the Holocaust, abuses of
human rights have continued in the post-World
War II era.
Task:
•Describe examples of human rights abuses in
the post-World War II era
•Discuss efforts that the world community has
made to eliminate these human rights abuses
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Historical Context:
Despite the horrors of the Holocaust, abuses of
human rights have continued in the post-World
War II era.
Task:
•Describe examples of human rights abuses in
the post-World War II era
•Discuss efforts that the world community has
made to eliminate these human rights abuses
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• Pay attention to the
titles and captions.
• Identify primary or
secondary document
• Carefully read the
document making
notes in the margin.
• Be brief
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Ask the
journalistic
questions who,
what, where,
when, why, and
how?
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• Use complete
sentences
• Use specific examples
from the document
• Use nouns instead of
pronouns
• Begin whenever
possible using the
author’s name.
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Only thirteen years old, Maria works at Sung Sil A.S., a . . .
Machine shop . . Which is located in a recently constructed
factory park ten miles outside Guatemala City. Maria lives
with her brothers, her parents, and her grandmother in a
two-room shack on a dirt road near the modern factory.
She does not attend school and cannot read. But Maria
can sew – for eleven hours a day, six days a week she
works. When management requires, she works until 3:00
a.m. and then rises four hours later to begin again.
(Aug 2000)
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“How are Maria’s human rights being
violated in present-day Guatemala?”
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“Maria is forced to work for eleven
hours each day, six days a week’
she is only 13 and works in a
factory.”
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“Maria is forced to work for eleven
hours each day, six days a week’
she is only 13 and works in a
factory.”
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“Maria is forced to work for eleven
hours each day, six days a week’
she is only 13 and works in a
factory.”
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• Re-read the question
and develop a one
sentence answer
(Thesis)
• Briefly outline around
the concept of PERSIA
(group the documents)
• Introduction, Body
Paragraphs, and
Conclusion
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Introduction
Body Paragraphs
Conclusion
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Hook / Que
Thesis
Transitional
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Document Grouping
Proper Citation
Outside Information
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•Let the reader know what the
paper is about.
•Attract the readers interest.
•Avoid generalizations
•Include the time, the place, the
people involved, and the topic
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•Throughout the
course of
history, peoples
of the past have
significantly
impacted future
civilizations.
•The statement
“throughout the
course of history”
is difficult to
prove.
•Lacks a defined
subject and time
frame.
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•Historians of
ancient Greece
have studied the
political, social,
and artistic
impact of that
civilization.
•Time
•Place and People
•Topic
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•Informs the reader of your
interpretation and
conclusions.
•Arguable and debatable point
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•The Middle
Ages has often
been called the
Age of
Feudalism, the
Dark Ages, and
the Age of Faith.
•Restates the
question
•Does not give
the reader an
interpretation
•Does not give a
conclusion
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•Today’s technologies,
belief systems,
political systems, and
economic systems
have evolved as a
result of the legacy
and accomplishments
of the ancient Greeks.
•Draws a
conclusion
•Organizes
thought
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•Sophisticated form of writing
•Creates flow and prompts the
reader as to the information in
the next paragraph
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The Greeks left behind for us
meaningful pieces of art and
literature, fantastic creations of
architecture, beliefs systems of
daily life, and a political system
that promotes the involvement of
the citizens
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•Political, Economic, Religious, Social,
Intellectual, and Artistic groupings.
(PERSIA)
•Chronological groupings.
•Importance
•Spatial Order (according to location)
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Political
Economic
Documents 2, 3, 7
Document 4, 6
Religious
Social
Document 5, 8
Intellectual
Artistic
Document 1
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•When quoting directly from the
document, the student must use a
parenthetical reference Example
•Students are urged to paraphrase the
information from the document, and
attribute that information to the author,
thus avoiding the need for a
parenthetical reference. Example
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Theodore Roosevelt maintained
the axiom that education truly
allowed the individual with ability to
blossom and prosper.
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“Mary had a little lamb,
whose fleece was white
as snow.” (Doc 1)
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•When writing a DBQ, the student
must demonstrate an understanding of
the global picture of history by
including outside information.
•This can be accomplished by
recognizing the era of the topic,
people, and events not mentioned
within the documents.
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