<p>US History is divided into two years at my school, and I'm currently in APUSH II... with a terrible teacher. Two different teachers instruct the US I and US II classes, and last year, the Social Studies supervisor demoted the ones who had been teaching it for the past ~5 years (with reason... out of 60 students taking the class, only 5 passed the AP test).</p>
<p>So, my teacher is new and I think a bit clueless when it comes to the DBQ. How many paragraphs should it be and what information should be included?</p>
<p>The document based questions are exactly what they sound like- questions based on the documents you are presented. You need to include information from as many documents as you can cohesively work into your essay, and your essay should be as long as it needs to be to get your point across, but certainly no shorter than 4 paragraphs (an intro, a conclusion, and at least two body paragraphs) but mine have run longer than that in the past.</p>