Well the it’s one of the “DON’T” things in DH…
In the DH it just says to refer to the document by its name or author, and never to summarize the document but just refer to it and analyze it.</p>
Just curious, what has made people think that the FRQs will be on either Imperialism or the Guided Age?? Does it have to do with the most recently released exams or something??</p>
On another note, what does everyone think about the curve this year? I’ve taken the MC on two practice exams (2008 and 2003) and got 75/80 and 74/80. With the guessing penalty gone, will the curve be high enough to make the score calculator on AP Pass wrong?? (I’ve been using it and banking on the fact that my MC score will be high enough that I can BS my way through essays if need be and still - hopefully - get a five.)</p>
On AP Pass test calulator it says on the right of the screen that the curve has been adjusted for the new curve.</p>
There is no absolutely right or wrong way to label the DBQ documents. However, I do agree with US History in a Flash. Most of the top level essays on AP Central use the following format:</p>
Theodore Roosevelt agreed and threw his support behind a constitutional amendment providing for the direct election of senators (Doc D). </p>
That’s it. Simple and clear. Done!</p>
anyone have any practice tests they’d like to send me :)</p>
also, i looked at the DBQ topics today, and i noticed a pattern. the 3rd, 8th, 15th, 22 topics are from colonial times. the next (27) is for tomorrow and if you look, 3+5=8, 15+7=22, 22+5=27. this is probably not legitimate at all, and i’m freaking out about the test a little bit…but just a thought.</p>
I really hope the essay isn’t on the Guilded Age, I never really understood it. Does it begin with Jackson and the spoils system, or what era exactly is it?</p>
the gilded age is basically “big business and labor unions”
-new human resources
-horizontal and vertical integration (trustbusting)
-labor unions (fighting for their rights) AFL, Knights, Wobblies
-Great Railroad Strick of 1877, The Haymarket Square Riot, the Homestead Strike, The Pullman Strike</p>
I don’t even like the Gilded Age… I’m half-hoping that won’t be it.</p>
@charlotte, I’ll PM you.</p>
^ I agree! Gilded Age was part of the era of the “forgotten presidents” (Hayes, Garfield, Arthur, Cleveland, Harrison, and Cleveland again). It was the period after Reconstruction I think and before Progressive era (TRoosevelt). There were a lot of big businesses (railroads) and corruption (Credit Mobilier, pools, trusts). Then people started seeing problems due to the urbanization and the rapid industrialization which leads to the Progressive era. TR comes in busting trusts! 
Gilded Age means everything was covered in gold or sparkly materialistic things but underneath it all, it was a bunch of corruptions.</p>
Does anybody think it’s going to be on Civil War/Reconstruction? Or causes of WWI?</p>
I think it’ll be on Reconstruction or the Gilded Age. My teacher thinks POPULISM. That betch is high, right? D:</p>
Civil War…very likely too. WWI…I hope not, cause…ugh.</p>
also…my teacher kinda stinks and never taught us how to right the essays. this question may seem a little elementary, but how would you recommend writing the essay? or how were you taught?</p>
Also, can anyone send me a multiple choice practice test? I’m not even a smart A+ student, I go to a crappy public school. But I REALLYYY want to do good on this test. </p>
Marinebio? :<</p>
Haha sure, Giancolii. I’ll PM you.</p>
Uhm, 9 months since the first day of school and I still don’t know how to write an FRQ. I am royally screwed.</p>
Thankssss. :))</p>
One of the things that my teacher DID do is teach us (or at least, made us do a lot) is write essays. (On the contrary, she did CRAP in teaching us…the material). </p>
I like AMSCO’s way of writing an FRQ and I have seen many collegeboard 9 essays use that same format, DQBs as well.</p>
My teacher always recommends 5 paragraphs. </p>
Intro: Set the time period/era, historical facts about the prompt and what leads up to this situation. THESIS!!! (include the topics of your body paragraphs in chronological order! and state your position)</p>
Body: one topic for each paragraph and how it relates to the prompt. MAKE SURE EVERYTHING YOU SAY IS IN THE TIME PERIOD/ERA THEY GIVE YOU! I always get screwed over cause of the time periods especially when it’s about African American rights, etc. -.- </p>
Conclusion: Summarize and restate thesis!</p>
Here’s my way of tackling the intro. I always tend to do the social, political, and economic type of essay, even if the prompt does not specifically state those three. (Of course, technological or religious could be substituted)…anyways…</p>
First sentence: Broad blahblahblah about the era, time period. IMO, you should begin by relating back to the previous era, like “Following the Civil War…”
Second sentence: Head to the direction of the prompt, which relates to the era. (Idk, this is just a flowy sentence).
THEN your next three sentences should start out:
Socially, blah blah blah. Politically, blaahhhhh. Economically, blahblahblah. Then finally, your roadmap/thesis: Blahblahblah was affected politically, economically and socially. (You can add/change around your final sentence to make it longer, obviously).</p>
Then your next 3 paragraphs should relate directly back to the thesis, one paragraph for political, one for social, and one for economic. THE FIRST SENTENCE (TOPIC SENTENCE) OF EACH PARAGRAPH should be like a smaller version of your thesis. </p>
Like: Blaahhhh blah changed the political scope of the blah blah. (Everyone writes differently).</p>
Then conclusion should just be one or two sentences, imo.</p>
There really is no structure for the body paragraphs. You should just write and include a lot of outside info and analysis that support the thesis. (+ docs for DBQs). If you try and make a specific structure, you’re just going to waste time trying to follow the format. JUST WRITE LIKE THERE’S NO TMR. </p>
Okay, I’m done.</p>
DH History in a Flash says that the collegeboard still does the 1/4 rule for wrong answers, but I was under the impression that they had gotten rid of that for all of their tests. Anybody know which it is?</p>
^ They got rid of that! ANSWER ALL QUESTIONS TOMORROW!</p>
Yep, they got rid of it for all tests.</p>
@Giancolii and sliang: Thank you!</p>