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Historic documents can be fascinating, right? Try convincing your students of that! Join us to learn concrete methods for helping students succeed on DBQs. We'll share terrific resources for primary source documents and lessons and give you ideas for how to use them in class to eliminate dull and pump up the fun factor.
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Agenda
Strategy 1: Response Group
Strategy 2: Skill Builder
Strategy 3: The BIG Paper
Assessment Tips
Where to find resources
Strategy 1: Response Group(with a twist)
Response Group
• Challenge students to discuss controversial and complex issues in small groups.
• Create heterogeneous groups and a suitable classroom arrangement.
• Prepare students to answer provocative critical thinking questions.
• Allow groups time to prepare their responses.
• Facilitate a lively class discussion.
DBQ Response Group
1- Model the skill. Do one question together.• Begin by decoding the question. Annotate what
the question is asking or rewrite in your own words.
• Allow each group to respond quickly.
2- Have groups brainstorm five things they already know about the question topic.
• Allow each group to share.• Different presenter.
3- Assign each group one of the DBQ documents for analysis. They decide how they would use it to answer the question.
• Create one document analysis question per document.
• Allow each group to share.• Different presenter.
Complete the essay individually.
Use a Response Group rubric/scoring sheet.
Example- Turning a DBQ into a Response Group Activity
DBQ QuestionAnalyze the extent to which the American Revolutionary War was truly "revolutionary”?
Round OneDecode the question. Have each group present what they think the question is asking them to do.
Round TwoHave each group brainstorm what they already know about the Revolutionary Era.
Example- Turning a DBQ into a Response Group Activity
Round ThreeProvide each group one of the documents found in the DBQ along with the appropriate document analysis worksheet –map, politicalcartoon, illustration, etc.
If you have more groups than docs,repeat the documents.
Provide ample time—5 to 10 minutes—for groups to complete their analysis.
Have a new presenter share theirinformation.
Alternatively, rotate the documents throughthe groups and assign each group one document to present.
Culminate with a discussion about the approach to writing this DBQ and have students write their essays individually.
Strategy 2: Skill Builder
Skill Builder
Debrief the lesson to help students make connections to key social studies concepts.
Set clear expectations, allow students to practice the skill repeatedly, and give immediate feedback.
Prepare students to work in pairs.
Teach the skill through modeling and guided practice.
Use engaging tasks to teach social studies skills.
Using Skill Builders with DBQs
Allow students to be actively involved in learning the skill.•Decode the DBQ essay question as a whole class.
Model the skill.
•Do one document together.
Provide clear expectations, practice skill repeatedly, and give immediate feedback.
•Create and post placards at stations around the room. Students work in pairs.
Debrief and make connections to key concepts.
•Challenge students to think holistically about their document analysis and apply it to the question.
Have lesson processing be the individual essay writing.
Example- Turning a DBQ into a Skill Builder Activity
Decode the Question (Middle School)
What was the role of religion in unifying or dividing societies of the Eastern Hemisphere?
Provide any necessary historical background:
Religions of the world have historically served to unite as well as divide the people of the Eastern Hemisphere. Since the first civilization until the modern day, religious beliefs have brought people together in peace and ripped people apart in violence.
Example- Turning a DBQ into a Skill Builder Activity
Create placards for each document.
Provide analysis questions for lower grade levels.
Students take notes on their Skill Builder Handout.
Students complete work at one station and check their work with the teacher before going to the next station until all documents have been analyzed.
Document 1
Example- Turning a DBQ into a Skill Builder Activity
Wrap up the activity and make connections between the documents and the question.
Divided societies of the Eastern Hemisphere.
Divided societies of the Eastern Hemisphere.
Strategy 3: Fold a Giant Piece of Paper
DBQ: Analyze the responses of Franklin D. Roosevelt’s administration to the problemsof the Great Depression. How effective were these responses? How did they change therole of the federal government?
Use the documents and your knowledge of the period 1929-1941 to construct your essay.
DocumentCut , Paste, Analyze,
Annotate
Effective response(s)
Change Role of federal government
Outside Information
Grouping Need to Know
A
source could be biased; cabinet member
Yes- … Government providing jobs.
Unemployment;Impact data
Missing data for women.
B
C
Assessing the DBQ Essays
Grading
Have a rubric in mind for the answer.
Prepare to spend time grading, especially initially.
How do you manage assessment of DBQs or essays?
Ideas to Make Grading Less Time-consuming
Use Peer Read-Arounds.
Collect essay rough drafts.
Create balanced groups.
Brainstorm qualities of an effective essay for the question.
Have each group identify a facilitator responsible for collecting and passing out essays, a recorder for discussion note taking, and a presenter. Rotate these roles.
Pass out the rough drafts to groups and provide time to read (scan), discuss which essay they like best, then pass to another group and repeat until all groups have read all essays.
Group discusses which essay they liked best overall and then have each group present findings.
Teacher records these notes to create a rubric for the final draft.
Ideas to Make Grading Less Time-consuming
Have students highlight their thesis and evidence
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