How to Crack the Global DBQ: 2012 Regents

How to Crack the Global DBQ Historical Context Task Combined... = The Question

How to Crack the Global DBQ Historical Context Reminder of the “central topic” Will always give you the three “topic choices” ***Should not be copied as your intro

How to Crack the Global DBQ Task “Choose Two” of the three Pay Attention to “Trigger Words” Be sure to cover all aspects of task!!!

How to Crack the Global DBQ Look...here is how they put the DBQ together: You will always have three “topics” or examples listed in the Historical Context. The documents will always follow the order of the three topics. Also, the documents will always give you information to match the trigger words in the task. Lets look at a DBQ Question:

How to Crack the Global DBQ

How to Crack the Global DBQ Topic: Autocratic Leaders: Emperor Hunagdi Peter the Great Louis XIV

How to Crack the Global DBQ You can’t freak out if you don’t remember everything about them...that is not the point!!! They will give you information in the documents about these people. You just have to be sure to deal properly with the task: what should you be looking for? Task

How to Crack the Global DBQ

How to Crack the Global DBQ Task = Choose Two Leaders Actions Taken... Helped or Hurt...

How to Crack the Global DBQ Recap: They give you three choices. You want to read all the documents, and answer all of the questions in the booklet, for each document. You get to choose the two examples that you want to write about... That, is your essay.

How to Crack the Global DBQ Ok... Here is a big idea... The documents will always be in the order of the choices listed in the historical Analysis. Meaning...for this question... Emperor Huangdi will be first Peter the Great will be second Louis XIV Third will be third

How to Crack the Global DBQ And... The documents, (for each of the three choices), will always follow the order of the task. Meaning, for this question: “Actions taken” documents will be first “Helped or hurt” documents will be follow.

Essay Organization: Autocratic Leaders Choice 1 = Body 1 Actions taken (docs) Helped or hurt (docs) Choice 2 = Body 2

The Global DBQ Essay has Two Parts: Part A of the Question: Read Context and Task Focus on trigger words. Answer all of the questions on each of the documents in the booklet. This will get you easy points, and will help you choose which two groups of documents you want to use. Part B of the Question: This is where you write your essay. Reminder: many students simply answer the document questions, and ignore the actual essay, and then move on to the Thematic.

The Global DBQ: Introduction Three Parts Big Idea on Central “docs” Topic Provide your two “choices” Use Task to provide two key steps

How to Crack the Global DBQ Central Topic = leaders who are autocrats Your Choices = which to you want to write about = *Let the reader know. Which two... Direction: Use “task triggers” to show what steps you will take.

Global DBQ Intro: Big Picture Choices Direction Autocrats Impact Peter Louis Choices Actions Impact: Pos/Neg Direction

Global DBQ Body Paragraphs: Choice: plug into task (solve for “X”) Peter the Great Actions Taken Impact: helped or hurt Choice: plug into task (solve for Y”) Louis XIV