AGENDA DBQs!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

DBQ What’s a DBQ? What’s the point?

DBQ “DOCUMENT BASED QUESTION” You’re given a question And then a bunch of documents And you use evidence found in those documents to answer the question. There’s no right or wrong answer!!!!!!!

HERE’S THE KICKER The DBQ is not about you answering the question correctly. The DBQ is about you being a historian You will be using these documents to draw a conclusion related to the prompt In using the documents, you should consider H.I.P.P. – because that’s what historians actually do And based on the evidence you collect from the documents, you write your essay. And what do historians do? They use documents to come to a conclusion.

HOW DO I USE DOCUMENTS? It’s your job as a historian to organize, interpret, and analyze the documents. Don’t freak out. Organize = can you group the docs into a couple of categories? Interpret = do you know what the document is telling you based on the prompt you’ve been given? Analyze = can you use the document to help you come to a conclusion?

HOW DO I USE DOCUMENTS? BASED ON THE DOCUMENTS, and evidence found in the documents, you should be able to answer the prompt Even if you know nothing about the topic! The documents give you ALL POSSIBLE ANSWERS Plus, there’s not ‘one correct answer’ in a DBQ

Let’s brainstorm Malcolm X and Martin Luther King, Jr. What do we know about them? What do we know about the Civil Rights Era?

DBQ Packet: Read through background essay as a class

DBQ Packet: Summarize what you read about Malcolm X, MLK Jr, and America in the 1960s. Then, write it down in the “background essay summary” box It should be a summary of MAIN POINTS! Three to five sentences

DBQ Packet: For each document, go through the listed questions. If you have questions, ask me!!