DBQ

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DBQ
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What is a DBQ????

• A document-based question (DBQ) is an essay or
  series of short-answer questions that is
  constructed by students using one's own knowledge
  combined with support from several provided
  sources.
• Document-based questions
• focus on critical thinking skills and ask
  students to make comparisons, draw analogies,
  apply knowledge to the given data, and require
  students to apply historic analysis.
• ask students to take positions on issues or
  problems and support their conclusions.
• require students to look at issues from multiple
  perspectives.
• require students to apply skills they use as
  adults

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Parts of a Document-Based Questions DBQ for
short
Part A Answering Constructed Response
Questions Part B Outlining Your
Essay Part C Writing Your Essay
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What is a Constructed Response Question? CRQ
for short
Constructed Response questions are open-ended,
short answer questions that provide students with
the opportunity to answer questions in a short
response.  The student supplies a response in the
form of a few sentences, a graphic organizer, or
a simple drawing/diagram with explanation.
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Constructed Response Questions Document 1
Reading
Question
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Constructed Response Questions Document 1
Step 1 Read the excerpt Step 2 Read the
question Step 3 Use the passage to answer the
question

• The Fifteenth Amendment guarantees the right to
  vote for African Americans.

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Constructed Response Questions Document 2
Background
Quote
Question
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Constructed Response Questions Document 2

• African Americans do not have the mental ability
  to participate in government, according to
  Congressman Boyer
• 2. Yes, several Northern states did not allow
  African Americans to vote

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Constructed Response Questions Document 3

• This cartoon suggests that the Freedmens Bureau
  allows African Americans to be lazy and that
  supporting the Radical Republican Congress will
  hurt white Americans
• Many Southerners believed that the Freedmens
  Bureau was ineffective and even caused problems,
  which is why many Southerners thwarted the
  progress made by the Bureau

Picture
Caption
Question
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Constructed Response Questions Document 4
Excerpt
Question

• This document is advocating the formation of
  White Leagues, such as the KKK, to form and try
  to regain their power over African Americans

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Constructed Response Questions Document 5
Background
Quote
Question

• According to John McCoy, the institution of
  sharecropping was one reason for Reconstructions
  failure because many former slaves worked for
  little more than food and shelter once they were
  given their freedom, which was very similar to
  their lives as slaves.

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Constructed Response Questions Document 6

• Hayes won the Election of 1876 because he won the
  majority of electoral votes, even though he did
  not win the popular vote.
• Once he became President, Rutherford B. Hayes
  announced the end of Reconstruction by removing
  the military from the Southern states.

Background
Map
Question
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Constructed Response Questions Document 7

• The Ku Klux Klan aimed to keep African Americans
  from exercising their newly-won rights.
• The Klan worked against the efforts of Congress
  by striking fear into the hearts of African
  Americans or anyone who tried to helped African
  Americans. They did this through lynchings and
  burning crosses.

Cartoon
Question
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Congratulations! Youre done with the
Constructed Response Questions. So, now what?
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Its time to prepare to write your essay.
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Reconstruction was the period of time following
the Civil War in which the federal government
aimed to protect the rights of newly-freed
African Americans
Historical Background
Task
Use the information from the documents, your
answers to the questions in the Constructed
Response Questions, and your knowledge of social
studies to write a well-organized essay. In your
essay you should
Question

• What actions were taken by Congress to make
  Reconstruction successful and why did Congress
  efforts to ensure equal rights to the freedmen
  fail?

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First things first! Make an outline
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Whats a thesis?

• A thesis statement declares what you believe and
  what you intend to prove

The thesis is the LAST sentence of your
introductory paragraph
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Body Paragraphs
The body paragraphs of your essay will break down
the three major topics of discussion in your
essay.
How you determine those topics, depends on the
particular essay question. In future DBQ essays,
you will figure out what makes the most sense to
you.
In order to be consistent as a class, we are all
going to use the same three major ideas for this
particular DBQ essay.
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Information from the Documents
Now that you have your major topics, you need to
find information from the documents to support
those ideas.
Look through each of the documents and find ANY
BIT OF INFORMATION that supports any of the three
main ideas that weve already established.
In the appropriate box in the second column,
write ANY INFORMATION THAT APPLIES. Then write
the number of the document where you got that
information in parenthesis after it.
For example The 15th Amend. right to vote (1)
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Outside Information
Now that you have your major topics, you need to
find information from your head to support those
ideas.
Think of what you already know about
Reconstruction and find ANY BIT OF INFORMATION
that supports any of the three main ideas that
weve already established.
In the appropriate box in the third column, write
ANY INFORMATION THAT APPLIES.
For example poll tax kept poor blacks from
voting
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Congratulations! Youre done with your outline.
So, now what?
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Its time to write your essay.
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So, Where Do I Start?
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First Things First

• INTRODUCTORY PARAGRAPH

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So, Where Do I Start?

• Start with what you know

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You Already Know

• Four out of the five sentences that
• you will need for your
• INTRODUCTORY PARAGRAPH!

YOU DO???????
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Introductory Paragraph
SENTENCE 5 (thesis)
SENTENCE 2 (reword)
SENTENCE 3 (reword)
SENTENCE 4 (reword)
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You Already Know
Sentences 2, 3, 4, and 5 (thesis) Just be sure to
reword sentences 2, 3, 4
What should you write for sentence 1?
Something that mentions your topic is going to
grab your reader. Make it exciting!!!!
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Congratulations! Youve Written Your
Introductory Paragraph!Now What?

• Again
• Start with what you know!

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You Already Know

• Four out of the five sentences that
• you will need for each
• BODY PARAGRAPH!

YOU DO???????
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Paragraph 2
SENTENCE 1
SENTENCES 2 3
You must add a CLOSING SENTENCE
SENTENCES 3 4
Restate the theme of the paragraph in different
words
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Paragraph 3
SENTENCES 2 3
SENTENCE 1
You must add a CLOSING SENTENCE
SENTENCES 3 4
Restate the theme of the paragraph in different
words
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Paragraph 4
SENTENCES 3 4
You must add a CLOSING SENTENCE
SENTENCES 2 3
Restate the theme of the paragraph in different
words
SENTENCE 1
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Congratulations! Youve Written Your Body
Paragraphs!Now What?

• Again
• Start with what you know!

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You Already Know

• Four out of the five sentences that
• you will need to write your
• CONCLUDING PARAGRAPH!

I DO???????
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Concluding Paragraph
SENTENCE 2 (reword)
SENTENCE 3 (reword)
SENTENCE 4 (reword)
SENTENCE 1
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You Already Know
Sentences 1, 2, 3, and 4 Just be sure to reword
sentences 2, 3, 4
What should you write for sentence 5?
Something that sums up your essay and is a STRONG
ending. Make it exciting!!!!
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Congratulations! Youve Completed a DBQ!