<p>^ I agree with both of you PR actually makes me want to review. And it does an especially well job of teaching you how to work on the frqs.</p>
<p>I can’t remember more than one dozen things about Africa at a time, but besides that, I feel fairly confident about this exam. The day before the exam, I’m going to go over all of the changes, continuities, and comparisons between civilizations and time periods. I’ll also try to familiarize myself with most of the major artwork and architecture of the period. Luckily, stuff like Notre-Dame and the Taj Mahal that consistently show up on practice exams are fairly easy to remember.</p>
<p>hmm, if there was a FRQ for change and continuities in trade for the Indian Ocean, what would you absolutely have to mention (goods traded and dominance of nations mostly, right?) And does it matter if you don’t know exact years? Or could you just go, first it was Arabs, then it was Portugal dominance, and not specifically state years?</p>
<p>Sorry, I’ve never written a COT essay yet, so just trying to figure it out.</p>
<p>It seems to me that a COT about the Indian Ocean trading network would most likely focus on the changes between the 2nd (600 to 1450) and 3rd (1450 to 1750) units. The changes of that time period would mostly be related to colonization and imperialism - Portuguese, Spanish, and Dutch influence and economic gain - as well as increased maritime technology. The only good continuity I can think of off of the top of my head would be the goods being traded.</p>
<p>COT essays tend to be broader, asking for, say, the political and religious changes and continuities of one of the three regions listed below between 1450 and 1914. It would then give you a listing of say, East Asia, Southwest Asia, and Western Europe.</p>
<p>^for that COT i would organize it as:
CHANGE: introduction of new maritime technologies
CHANGE: introduction of new lands into the trade
CONTINUITY: commodities traded remained relatively the same</p>
<p>ok im a little confused about the essay format for COT.
I’m a self studier so that should explain why i have these questions…
but anyway
the PR suggests the following format for COT:
------------------Country</p>
<h2>Before Change</h2>
<h2>Impact</h2>
<h2>Change</h2>
<h2>Continuity</h2>
<p>What formats do you guys use for your essays?</p>
<p>heres how i usually organize it:
Intro: talk about how it was like BEFORE time period, provide thesis
BP 1: CHANGE
BP 2: CHANGE
BP 3: CONTINUITY
Conclusion: restate thesis; remember, you can get a point for a thesis in the first OR last paragraph! </p>
<p>dont forget global context in BPs.
and also analyze/ describe how it is a PROCESS of change vs. simply a change</p>
<p>our teacher told us to pick two categories of change (ie political, social, economic, etc.) and then talk about change and continuity for each category:</p>
<p>intro:
thesis, category of analysis 1 (political), category of analysis 2 (social)</p>
<p>paragraph 2:
topic sentence, how politics were at the beginning of the time period, what caused the change in politics, what were politics like after the change</p>
<p>paragraph 3:
topic sentence, how were things socially at the beginning of the period, what caused social change, what were things like socially after the change</p>
<p>i guess it doesn’t really matter as long as you include whatever is in the rubric, though.</p>
<p>^^ but yeah i wouldn’t recommend doing it that way if you can’t think of broad categories.</p>
<p>@__daniel
First of all, thanks for responding!
I have a few questions for you though:
- You have BP 1 and 2 as changes and 3 as a continuity. Could it also be the other way around?
- what do you mean by global context? For example if the COT was about Russias labor system, I should talk about the implications of the labor system globally? Maybe thats a bad example…</p>
<p>@ jman01:
thanks!
yeah that makes sense. Its really similar to the PR’s way.</p>
<p>hey guys.
what would 40/70 + 7/7/7 on essay get?
(PR practice test, btw)</p>
<p>^probably a high 4.</p>
<p>global context: you compare your topic to another region in the world where a similar event took place. if you were talking about Russian serfs your global context might include slavery in other regions of the world in a similar time period.</p>
<p>I took one test in class got 17/25 on m.choice. What would i need to get on the essays if i keep that score upt o get a 5(with the worst curve possible)?</p>
<p>edit: all others were wrong no blank
17+17+approx13?/25+25+20=47/70? so would a 6/6/6 suffice? a combination of 6’s and 7’s?</p>
<p>quadonfait</p>
<p>earlier in this thread, someone posted how to calculate scores ( i didnt see it until AFTER my first post… :p) </p>
<p>if your score is 47, subtract (#wrong)/4
then multiply by .85</p>
<p>multiply essays by 2.2 </p>
<p>70’s 5
60’s 4</p>
<p>What do you guys think the DBQ will be about? Last year it was the about the Olympics…which fit in quite well with current times (2008 Olympics)</p>
<p>Maybe this year it will be about the Great Depression? haha, just speculating.</p>
<p>for compare and contrast essays, would you recommend comparing/contrasting point by point, or doing the block method where you separate the subjects in their own paragraphs and the contrast is implied?</p>
<p>quadonfait</p>
<p>earlier in this thread, someone posted how to calculate scores ( i didnt see it until AFTER my first post… ) </p>
<p>if your score is 47, subtract (#wrong)/4
then multiply by .85</p>
<p>multiply essays by 2.2 </p>
<p>70’s 5
60’s 4 </p>
<p>so 5’s for low 70’s and 7’s for high 70’s?</p>
<p>Chocobok: I wouldn’t be surprised if they’d indeed chose the great depression! Good that I am a sucker for economics then.</p>
<p>Ignore this</p>
<p>Bumppppppppp has anybody taken any practice exams yet?</p>