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1
Essay Hints for AP Exam
  • Read the question carefully.
  • Mark it up and make sure you identify the key
    parts of the question.

2
Essay Hints for AP Exam
  • I. Thesis
  • Answer the question directly and include the
    major points you will be elaborating upon later
    in your essay.
  • E.g., The Mongols were able to conquer so much
    land so quickly because they had leadership which
    deviated from its traditional forms, possessed
    superior military technology, and had innovative
    strategies which caused many foes to surrender
    without a fight.

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Essay Hints for AP Exam
  • Evidence
  • Back up major ideas with specific evidence.
  • Specific facts and specific examples strengthen
    your argument.
  • E.g., Ghenghis Khan was a highly effective
    leader. One example of his leadership can be
    seen in . . .

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Essay Hints for AP Exam
  • III. Analysis
  • After you give evidence, explain to the reader
    what that evidence actually proves. How did the
    evidence you provided CAUSE the idea you are
    arguing.
  • E.g., By using these techniques, Genghis Khan
    developed an efficient, feared fighting force. He
    . . .

5
Beyond the Basics. . .
  • Group Your Documents
  • Leadership use docs 1, 3, 4, 5
  • Technology use docs 3,4,6,8
  • Use all docs., or all-but-one

6
Point-of-View
  • This document clearly shows the Mongols belief
  • that they were superior to every other society
    and
  • had the support of their gods. This gave them
    the
  • belief that they were invincible, as seen in. .
    .

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Point-of-View, cont.
  • Source U.S. President Woodrow Wilson, Fourteen
    Points, January 8, 1918 (Document 3)
  • Woodrow Wilsons Fourteen Points (doc. 3),
    written while
  • the war was still going on and a full year
    before the treaty of Versailles,
  • displays Wilsons lofty idealism and a strong
    belief in self-
  • determinism. The strong nationalistic fervor
    which shaped its
  • brief military success during WWI are clearly
    reflected in the Fourteen
  • Points. This point of view comes through in
    Wilsons personal belief that
  • colonial peoples like the Syrians had a right to
    determine their own fate
  • and that the United States was willing to act on
    their behalf on the world stage. . .

8
AP WH DBQ Essays
  • Besides basics
  • Request an additional document AND make sure to
    explain EXACTLY how the document would help
  • Request at least two
  • A document that will fill in a gap
  • One document that would help would be a memoir
    from a leader of a society that surrendered to
    the Mongols. This would help clarify why . . .
  • A document that will help establish validity or
    discredit an unsubstantiated document

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AP WH DBQ Essays
  • Besides basics
  • Request an additional document AND make sure to
    explain EXACTLY how the document would help
  • Request at least two
  • A document that will help establish validity or
    discredit an unsubstantiated document
  • Ex. Another document that would help would be one
    from a conquered peasant of a land that
    surrendered, specifically from the area described
    by __________. If the peasant described a similar
    land where all were at peace this would show that
    even though __________ was clearly trying to make
    his rule look good, there was some truth to his
    statements. If the peasant described a very
    different society it would make ________s
    account even more questionable.

10
AP WH CCOT Essays
  • Clearly describe a beginning, a middle and an
    end to the time period asked about.
  • Explain BOTH Changes and Continuities
  • Explain WHY the Changes and Continuities
    occurred.

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AP WH CCOT Essays
  • Basics
  • Remember SEERS
  • 1) Social Class Systems and Gender - the
    development and transformation of social
    structures gender roles and relations family
    and kinship racial and ethnic constructions and
    social and economic classes.
  • 2) Economic Systems - the creation, expansion,
    and interaction of economic systems agriculural
    and pastoral production trade and commerce
    labor systems industrialization capitalism and
    socialism.
  • 3) Environment - the interaction between humans
    and the environment demography and disease
    migration patterns of settlement and
    technology.
  • 4) Religion and Culture - the development and
    interaction of cultures with regard to relgion
    belief systems, philosophy, and ideologies
    science and technology and the arts and
    literature.
  • 5) State-building, expansion, and conflict
    political structures and forms of governance
    empires nations and nationalism revolts and
    revolution regional, transregional, and global
    structures and organizations.
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