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High school writing-essays dbqs for Microsoft Word
Sentence Starters: Introducing Evidence / Elaboration Techniques - Printable
Are you tired of reading the same generic responses from your students? This useful charts helps students improve on their argumentative writing skills by adding variation to their sentences/transitions. It displays different sentence starters (and verbs) to help students introduce and elaborate on evidence when writing their essays (great way to add syntactic variety to formulaic written responses!). â–ş These charts may be printed out and laminated for students to use in the classroom/at home (T
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5th - 12th
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DBQ Outline: A Blueprint for AP Writing Success
This NEW outline (updated to the 2023 rubric) will help guide your students to complete a highly structured and effective DBQ essay based on the core requirements for the redesigned AP World, European, and U.S. History exams. I use it every year to introduce the DBQ essay to my students. I can't imagine teaching DBQ writing without it!
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9th - 12th
DBQ Essay Writing: Graphic Organizer, Template, & Rubric (1:1 Compatible)
I really struggled to get my kids to write in the humanities subjects with a claim, evidence, & reasoning. However, once I was able to break this down into a graphic organizer and scale it back up into an essay, I saw immense results! These have been incredibly valuable to my learners, as it gives them the scaffolds they need while still holding them accountable for the content. After several months of practice, my student have really started to understand how to write within the humanities
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8th - 12th
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Dracula-Blood Transfusions?
Students read two pieces of informational text on blood types and transfusions and then excerpts from Bram Stoker's Dracula. They answer five multiple-choice, close-read questions and 10 short-answer questions that lead them to make a claim about the blood transfusions Lucy receives and how the process is interpreted in the novel. The essay question is provided. Question 15 requires knowledge from having read the first few chapters of the text, but is not necessary for the completion of the shor
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9th - 10th
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DBQ Breakup!
This DBQ gives students an introduction to what a DBQ is using a topic familiar to middle and high school students: student relationship drama! Students will analyze various documents and learn to bucket these sources into proper segments in order to determine who caused the relationship to end
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7th - 10th
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Analytical Essay Prep Sheet | Graphic Organizer for Social Studies Writing
The Analytical Essay Prep Sheet | Graphic Organizer for Social Studies Writing is a document designed to be given to students to help them organize their thoughts ahead of an analytical essay. This is a great resource for Social Studies essay writing but can work across other subjects such as Language Arts. The prep sheet is inspired by APUSH standards and is divided into the following sections:1. Thesis2. Topic Sentences3. Evidence4. Analysis5. Conclusion
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7th - 10th
DBQ Essay Outline (2 Body Paragraph Version)
Helpful outline for students to organize their Document Based Question essays in Global or US History. It well ensure that they have an introduction, thesis, main ideas, document citations, outside information, and a conclusion!It is particularly helpful when preparing for NYS Regents exams or other state tests which require DBQ Essays!The best part is that you can reuse this for every single DBQ Essay you assign! Students will get used to the structure and begin to write better essays!
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6th - 12th
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Also included in:Â Essay Outlines Bundle!
ANDREW JACKSON: HERO OR VILLAIN? Essay Project - American History Text Analysis
WAS ANDREW JACKSON A HERO OR A VILLAIN? ESSAY PROJECTThis printer-friendly and editable project set requires students to analyze sources that provide different perspectives on the actions of Andrew Jackson, a controversial president known for Jacksonian Democracy, war with the banks, and the Trail of Tears. This is a great way to conclude a unit on the rise of sectionalism, westward expansion, the Trail of Tears, or the road to the American Civil War, or a way to engage students in writing in th
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6th - 11th
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JOHN BROWN: HERO OR VILLAIN? Essay Project - American History Text Analysis
WAS JOHN BROWN A HERO OR A VILLAIN? ESSAY PROJECTThis printer-friendly and editable project set requires students to analyze sources that provide different perspectives on the actions of John Brown, a controversial abolitionist leader known for his infamous raid on Harpers Ferry. This is a great way to conclude a unit on sectionalism or the road to the American Civil War, or a way to engage students in writing in the Social Studies classroom. LOW PREP & PRINTER FRIENDLY: The document is easi
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6th - 11th
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In Cold Blood: Students Create and Write Synthesis Essay
This assignment, accompanied with a thorough rubric, asks students to create their own synthesis prompt and essay based issues found in Truman Capote's In Cold Blood. There are nine prompt suggestions (or students can create their own). They are responsible for finding five academic sources that could be used to defend, qualify, AND challenge the prompt. They must then create an annotated bibliography that cites the source and explains how it could be used to address the prompt. Students must in
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9th - 12th, Higher Education
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AP Language Synthesis Essay with Bully Documentary
This prompt is an AP English Language and Composition Synthesis Essay question. It contains six reviews of the documentary BULLY that students must use to defend, qualify, or challenge a statement provided. I have limited the number of pages students may write to two, but it is an editable Word document. Likewise, this is a take-home assignment and would need to be modified slightly if done in a timed-situation. Modified AP Synthesis Rubric provided.
It obviously requires that students have watc
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9th - 12th, Higher Education
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DBQ Grading Rubric for Historical Analysis or APUSH
The file contains a grading rubric which will help you evaulate DBQ essays quickly and helps students analyze their own work.
The rubric is color coded; students used the color coding of the rubric to highlight the sections of their essays that illustrate those essential elements of good historical analytical writing.
For example, students first highlight or underline their thesis in red. Then students highlight or underline all topic sentences for each paragraph in blue; then each of three supp
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10th - 12th, Higher Education
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McCarthyism/Cold War DBQ
This activity includes the use of 7 primary source texts (speech excerpts, photographs, and comic strip) to engage students and encourage them to interact with text and cite specific evidence. Each document comes with at least 3 questions. The questions build upon each other to help students see both sides of the issue with McCarthyism during America's Cold War Era. At the end, students will take the information they have gained while analyzing the documents and construct an argumentative essay.
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6th - 12th
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General DBQ Guided Essay Template
This is a simple guide to help students write an essay. I used it for middle school SPED students as a differentiation tool, but I also have used it for high schoolers when I have them read & write a DBQ in 1 day (& no time to outline).
This template helps make the process much less overwhelming compared to a blank sheet of paper!!!
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6th - 9th
A Christmas Carol Writing Prompts Distance Learning CCSS
Please click the little green star in the upper right section of this page and select to "Follow" me. I promise you my creative lessons and common core based designs will not disappoint you.I have included 11 constructed response items based on A Christmas Carol. This is one of my favorites. These one page writing assignments can be used as a formative or cumulative assessment for the novel. They are written in the style of the common core MSL and EOC.I have also included 2 rubrics: one for a on
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7th - 11th
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Also included in:Â A Christmas Carol Unit Bundle of Lessons Distance Learning
Globalization DBQ
*Full DBQ with rubric, documents, and questions!
*A multiple choice version also included to be used as a modified version, or for younger grade.
*Great for a final assessment when teaching Globalization
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6th - 12th
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Hillbilly Elegy NINE AP English Language Style Essay Prompts
Prompts for Language Arts and AP English LanguageSynthesis, Rhetorical Analysis, and ArgumentReading the book is not required.AP English Language style FRQ prompts. Three prompts for each of the three styles. Reading Hillbilly Elegy is not required for students' ability to respond to prompts. The prompts focus on the issues associated with life, poverty, culture, and family in Appalachia. The AP Lang rubrics are appropriate for scoring, but state exam rubrics can easily be adjusted.Prompts provi
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9th - 12th
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Also included in:Â 37 AP English Lang Essay Prompts
WWII: Lasting effects of the Holocaust (DBQ/Essay)
This is an excellent resource for anyone covering WWII, or the Holocaust. Students have often heard, or already know about the antisemitic laws put in place by the Nazi's during World War II, but have often paid little attention to exactly how these law impacted the Jew during, and after, the holocaust.
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9th - 12th
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DBQ HIPP Writing Template for APUSH
Teaching students how to write DBQs have been a challenge. Many students develop create ideas but stop short of specific explanation. I created this HIPP writing guide as a way to help my students strengthen their arguments. It has worked so far and I have seen an increase in writing skills.
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9th - 12th, Higher Education
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Dopesick AP English Language Style Essay (9)
Writing Prompts are based on the AP English Language ExamSynthesis, Rhetorical Analysis, and ArgumentNonfiction: Critical Reading and WritingText AnalysisTest Prep SAT, End of Course Exams, and Advanced PlacementNow a Movie!Prompts guaranteed to interest students. Each prompt is based on themes and issues from Dopesick. Students are typically interested in current social problems and want more information than they are afforded on the local or national news. Macy's text takes them inside the opi
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9th - 12th
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Also included in:Â Social Justice: Critical Analysis Activities and AP Style Essay Prompts
New 2018 AP World History Full Practice Exam 1 (with Answers)
In need of an extra practice exam for your AP World History class? Have you already taken all the ones online and in the books? Well...look no further!
Here is 1 full length practice exam. It comes complete with multiple choice, DBQ, and frq sections. It also has the complete answer key with explanations for all questions, readings, and essays.
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9th - 11th
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Ancient Mythology DBQ
This is a DBQ that explores similarities and differences between Norse, Egyptian, and Greek mythologies.
This DBQ comes with a background essay, 12 documents, a document analysis sheet that can be copied to have one for each document, and guidelines for an essay. It can be edited as needed. I edited some of the documents for spelling and grammar before adding them to the DBQ. Sources are provided.
Read the background essay with your students. Have students read and evaluate the 12 documents
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10th - 12th, Higher Education
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World History: Comparing Feudalism DBQ
World History DBQ: Compare political, economic, and social institutions and conventions in Shogunate Japan and feudal Western Europe.Documents and Questions are Separate from each other as I print off a class set of Documents.Students read documents. Analyze Information. Answer Questions, and then writes a short essay over the prompt.11 Documents and Essay Page include:
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7th - 11th
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British Mandate and the Balfour Declaration ( Arab-Israeli Conflict )
The establishment of an Israeli state has impacted the political, social, and economic landscape of the region beginning with the Age of Empire the rise of nationalism in the region and Europe, continuing through the creation and modern condition of state of Israel, and Israel’s influence on US foreign policy in the middle east.Post World War I treaties revolving around the creation of a national Jewish homeland in Palestine aimed to show support for Zionists as well as to protect the rights of
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9th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
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