Homework 3/10

Starting to Read Ch 26 - pgs 698-712.  Make sure to read the excerpt by Olaudah Equiano on pg 710 and answer the question in italics on your blog.

Full DBQ Essay during long block on Wednesday.  You will receive documents and question that day.

Test will be after Chapter 27.  It will cover 19-27 (most of the chapters we covered about Europe aren't on it..I'll give you more specific chapters when I get them figured out).  Test will most likely be the middle of next week.

Again - AP WH KEY CONCEPTS
Annotated DBQ Rubric (Buddhism in China Question)

How to Write an APWH DBQ Thesis

DO:  

• address all parts of the question
• if it talks about the ‘political and social impact’ you need to address both SOCIAL and POLITICAL impacts in your thesis statement.
• Give the context of the essay
• ‘Historical Background’ is helpful for this
• Dates, Regions, Eras, etc.
• ANSWER THE QUESTION.
• If it asks for ‘social IMPACT of Buddhism’, do not describe how Buddhism developed.
• Take a position
• If it asks for social impact, make sure you mention what the social impact is (good, bad, etc)
• Make sure your groupings are connected to and support your thesis.
• If your question is ‘social impact’ one of your groupings should be documents that show the social impact.  You could also create a ‘positive social impact’ and a ‘negative social impact’ sub group.
• Each relevant grouping should be a paragraph.

DON’T:

• Only restate the question.
• “There were many political and economic effects of the ..........)”
• TOO VAGUE
• “There was a large impact on the Native American population. “

Does not address the question - ‘social and political’ impacts