Welcome to DBQ's 101, I'm Relsey your instructor. This will probably be a bit shorter than normal.
DBQ's scare a lot of people but at it's core it's a regular History essay so I am going to Direct you to History Essay's 101 https://www.notebook.ai/documents/108522 for structure This will focus on annotating and getting information from your document's and using it.
Your prompt for a DBQ is usually a type one prompt or, its usually a question that gives you your thesis, so your thesis shouldn't be to difficult to come up with, Now you have to be a good reader for these especially if it's timed. When you first look at your document keep the prompt question in mind. Now go in with your highlighter, as you read look for things that could be used for either side of the argument. Write in the margins how you think it could be used. Do this for every document when you finish going through the documents find a space to write out an outline. This is when you decide what to argue, outline your intro. Write out your X, Y, and Z. once you have an outline of what you want to do figure out whitch documents are going to work for X,Y,and Z. Now that you have the ones that work for you find the documents that argue against you pair up an argument with a counter argument.
Now you should have a pretty decent outline so start writing. The difference between History 101 and what you want to do is for every argument put a counter argument and say why that counter argument isn't true. There should be two quotes per paragraph, one for the argument one for the counterargument. Those annotations you made earlier are going to be the key when it comes to saving time, because you did that first you can find your quotes easily. Really the key to DBQ's is your annotation skills, if you're not confident with them practice. print out old DBQ's and annotate them until you feel confident in your annotating skills, you can find previous AP ones on Collage board.com.
This concludes this short lesson, hopefully it was helpful, if you have further question's feel free to PM. I wrote this one out rather quickly comparatively so I probably missed something. I would also recommend English Essay's 101 to see how to do quotes properly.
DBQ's scare a lot of people but at it's core it's a regular History essay so I am going to Direct you to History Essay's 101 https://www.notebook.ai/documents/108522 for structure This will focus on annotating and getting information from your document's and using it.
Your prompt for a DBQ is usually a type one prompt or, its usually a question that gives you your thesis, so your thesis shouldn't be to difficult to come up with, Now you have to be a good reader for these especially if it's timed. When you first look at your document keep the prompt question in mind. Now go in with your highlighter, as you read look for things that could be used for either side of the argument. Write in the margins how you think it could be used. Do this for every document when you finish going through the documents find a space to write out an outline. This is when you decide what to argue, outline your intro. Write out your X, Y, and Z. once you have an outline of what you want to do figure out whitch documents are going to work for X,Y,and Z. Now that you have the ones that work for you find the documents that argue against you pair up an argument with a counter argument.
Now you should have a pretty decent outline so start writing. The difference between History 101 and what you want to do is for every argument put a counter argument and say why that counter argument isn't true. There should be two quotes per paragraph, one for the argument one for the counterargument. Those annotations you made earlier are going to be the key when it comes to saving time, because you did that first you can find your quotes easily. Really the key to DBQ's is your annotation skills, if you're not confident with them practice. print out old DBQ's and annotate them until you feel confident in your annotating skills, you can find previous AP ones on Collage board.com.
This concludes this short lesson, hopefully it was helpful, if you have further question's feel free to PM. I wrote this one out rather quickly comparatively so I probably missed something. I would also recommend English Essay's 101 to see how to do quotes properly.