<p>The test is in approximately two days and my teacher has not taught me how to write DBQs. Content I'm ok with since we took the 2006 practice exam and I only got 3 wrong on the MC section but the essay destroyed me.</p>
<p>My APWH teacher taught me how to write DBQs perfectly but he says the rules for APUSH are different so I shouldn't some of his methods for APUSH.</p>
<p>Does anyone have any advice/resources on how to write FRQs or DBQs for APUSH? Such as organizing arguments and constructing thesis, etc.etc.? I'm not exactly a good writer by any chance >.<</p>
<p>The DBQ is basically like the APUSH FRQ. You write a normal essay with your introduction containing a thesis, etc, then you’re 2 or 3 body paragraphs and a conclusion. The only difference is you have to utilize the documetns. you’re not suppose to say “Doc A says this…” your suppose to make a connection/inference off of it. Also, at minimum you must use half of the documents. To get a 9 you must use all but one document, or even all of them. You can still get around a 7 using a little more than half of the documents, but the more you use the better (as long as you use them well!) It’s better to use 6 of 10 documetns well than 10 documents poorly. If you’re struggling with time or something, no matter what, I’d say use at least one more than half of the documents. Anyways, I hope this helps, may luck be with us this Friday…</p>
<p>By the way, after you make the “connection/inference” from the Document, you put it in parenthesis at the end. So, assuming you got this from a document, this could be an example: FDR’s New Deal tackled social and economic ills with massive federal programs (Doc A).</p>
<p>How many paragraphs do you guys think would be good? Someone was telling me to get a 9 on the DBQ you would need like 8-9 paragraphs but I don’t see how I could write that much.</p>
<p>So should I use the documents to write my essay or write my essay and use the documents? I ask this because every time I do the former, my essay comes out crap and when I do the latter, my documents don’t exactly fit into my thesis all nice and square.</p>
<p>Porcelain, that “8-9 paragraphs” is a complete lie. I’ve already gotten a 9 this year on one essay and I wrote 5 paragraphs (the last being my conclusion and was very short) and my teacher is an AP grader. Also, I’ve gotten one 8 with 4 paragraphs and several sevens with 4 paragraphs(only 4 paragraphs because I take too much time and dont reach a conclusion normally), so a normal length essay is fine. Within the time constraints 8-9 paragraphs is impossible. </p>
<p>MrWheezy, what do you mean by “my documents dont exactly fit into my thesis”? You do NOT put your documetns in your thesis. I haven’t taken AP World yet, but (i think) you have to group documents for world? If so, this is not true for APUSH. You do not group. You use them individually. I will message you showing a proper DBQ with an example prompt, but if you look at the college board site I think you can find one. I have to go pretty soon, but I’ll message you around 9 PM my time and hopefully clarify it further…</p>
<p>The DBQ basically integrates analysis of the documents in which are supplied while demonstrating knowledge of the historical period. </p>
<p>Thesis Paragraph: Write an intro. sentence that sets the scene; Make sure if you present a counter argument that you address it briefly here; Specify 2-4 sub-topics to the thesis </p>
<p>Body Paragraph 1: Topic sentences introducing sub-topic #1; Support the sentence with outside information (i.e. proper nouns) support your outside information with a reference to the documents. Write a sentence which relates this topic specifically to the thesis (READERs Love this!) and then a transitional sentence </p>
<p>For the remained of your essay follow the same type of procedure with the different sub-topics.</p>
<p>Conclusion: DO not just restate your thesis, analyze a little be more here. </p>
<p>Make sure to use as many documents as possible, and find at least 2 pieces of outside information for each one.</p>
<p>use your documents to write your essay. your essay should be able to tie in with the thesis using your documents.</p>
<p>Here are some of my tips to approaching the DBQ</p>
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<li>Make a clear and concise thesis based off documents the same way you would on a FRQ</li>
<li>Write 4-5 paragraphs (I wouldn’t suggest more than 5 because you won’t have enough time to write that many or your topic will be too broad <– sign your thesis isn’t concise enough)</li>
<li>Don’t just throw out documents. ANALYZE THEM.
Here’s an example of what I’m talking about</li>
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<p>say for instance, you had a document with a speech Lincoln gave. Don’t say
“Lincoln said blah blah blah (Doc B).” and move on. Instead, your next sentence should elaborate on how this fits into your thesis.</p>
<p>The way I write my DBQ’s and FRQ’s, I refer back to my thesis after every point/document to tie it back. </p>
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<li>Use outside information. If you forget to use outside information and strictly confine yourself to just documents, you won’t score very high =[</li>
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