ALL of your answers for TODAY go in BOX 2 Friday, August 9th AGENDA Warm Up: Document Analysis Hmwk- Login to the online textbook On the GREEN warm up sheet, answer the following in a sentence that restates the question. ALL of your answers for TODAY go in BOX 2 Give THREE factors mentioned in the background essay yesterday that cause cities to develop. Why are mountains often the source of rivers? REMINDERS: Apply for management positions by Friday (see blog) Notebooks should be set up: Warm up tab Classwork Tab
Happy Monday (August 12th)! AGENDA Warm Up: Complete DBQ Para Hmwk: Type and send to Ms. Berry Get out your DBQ materials. Take a laptop from the cart. Pay CLOSE attention to the battery life of your computer. If your battery is at a LOW percentage, trade desks with someone near an outlet and plug it in. 5. Start TYPING REMINDERS: Apply for management positions by Friday (see blog) Notebooks should be set up: Warm up tab Classwork Tab
DBQ GOALS FOR THE DAY Begin analyzing the documents. Take your time to thoroughly analyze each documents. Write your answers for the document analyses in COMPLETE sentences If you started this yesterday, you will need to GO BACK and rewrite your answers. You analysis questions will be turned in and graded for accuracy Complete the bucketing and chicken foot activity sheet There are THREE reasons Why early Georgia cities developed on the Fall Line, these are the buckets. Chicken foot is a diagram to help you write your thesis statement 3. Complete the prewriting sheet Read the rubric and review the expectations Carefully select your evidence for each of the THREE reasons Each document can ONLY BE USED ONE TIME Construct a well written Thesis and Conclusion
Buckets Stopover Point Shipping Water Power Doc A/B Doc A/C Doc A/D
Goals for this DBQ To provide me with a baseline data of your writing Use skills provided by last year’s teachers Thesis writing- clear and analytical position that answers the question and is derived from the evidence. Evidence citing- purposefully selects significant concrete details that support the thesis. Create an argument that explains how the evidence supports the thesis
8 Sentenced Paragraph Thesis statement Evidence (reason 1) Argument – explain/expand on your evidence Evidence (reason 2) Argument- explain/expand on your evidence Evidence (reason 3) Conclusions
Evidence 101 Evidence should be no more that one to two lines in your paper Use ellipses to shorten excerpts from the document. Example below: The Appalachians are the source of many of Georgia’s rivers. “…rivers form as they carry snowmelt and rainwater downhill (background essay).” How to use the map as evidence: The map in Document B shows that Georgia’s rivers begin in the Appalachian Mountains in the northwest corner of the state.
Formatting Font: Times New Roman Font (11 or 12 point) Heading: Name, Period, Date Top Left of Paper Skip two lines: Create a Title and Center Skip two lines: Paragraph Indent DOUBLE SPACE ENTIRE PARAGRAPH SHOULD FIT ON ONE PAGE
Beth Berry Period 1 8/9/2019 Appalachian Mountains: The Source of Georgia’s Rivers The majestic mountains of north Georgia not all provide the state with breathtaking beauty, but they are also the source of …….
On-Level DBQ Assignment: 1. GO to the Blog. Open the On-Level DBQ Form. 2. Grey boxes should appear for you to type information into the sections of the document. 3. All writing must fit on ONE page. 4. Use Times New Roman fonts, 11 or 12 point. 5. Double Space
I’m Done, or so I think….. Use your rubric/guidelines to check your work Did you use THREE different documents for evidence? Does each piece of evidence support a different reason for the formation of the fall line cities? Formatting Did you use Times New Roman Font? Is it 11 or 12 point Does it all fit on ONE PAGE, FRONT ONLY? Is it double spaced? 3. When you are ready to print, put your name and student number on the paper at Ms. Berry’s desk If you have to finish at home, save to Office 365 or a flashdrive. Email or share it with me when it is complete.