About the DBQ
- 🕰️ Recommended Time: 1 hour
- From years 1450 to 2001 (meaning no units 1 + 2)
Important Things to Know
- You need two pieces of outside evidence
- One for your contextualization
- One for your body paragraph for the outside evidence point
- If you use 3 documents, you get 1 point; 6 documents you get 2 points
- Doing 7 documents is recommended just in case one of your document analyses was incorrect
- You have to do HIPP for at least three documents
HIPP
When you do a HIPP, you have to explain the HIPP and why it matters
→ Ex: “The point of view of Document X is… This is significant because..,”
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Historical Situation
Intended Audience:
- You need to demonstrate why it’s important to know to whom the document was created
Purpose:
- What a document intends to do
- What was accomplished or what was hoped that would be accomplished
Point of View
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If you want to, you can do all your HIPPs on say, point of view.
How to Write a DBQ
Planning
⏰ 15 minutes
- Rewrite prompt, rewrite time period, write categories they want you to answer, decide what thinking skill to use
- Read the 7 documents
- Summarize the main idea of doc in writing
- Group the documents while you are reading them
- If you are stuck on a document, think: “If I only had this document, how would I answer the prompt?”
Writing the DBQ!
⏰ 45 minutes
There is no fixed structure: modify this to suit the needs of your given prompt
→ You could, say, have 3 body paragraphs with each mentioning 2 documents
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- Contextualization (3-4 sentences)
- Body Paragraph (repeat as many times needed)
- Topic Sentence
- Introduce Evidence (”Doc 4 says…”)
- Analyze (”This shows that…”)
Sandwich the HIPPs and the outside evidence somewhere in your body paragraph(s)
