1. Writer’s Workshop - Groupings
AP European History
Writer’s Workshop - Groupings

2. The Basic Core-Scoring Guide
You must meet ALL six basic core criteria in order to score above a 6 on your DBQ.

3. The Basic Core-Scoring Guide
First 6 points:
Thesis
Use majority of docs
Understand the docs
Support thesis w/ docs
POV
Groupings

4. The Expanded Core-Scoring Guide
Earn an additional 3 points (up to 9 total) with expanded core. These are more holistic and subjective to the reader.

5. Grouping Documents for the DBQ
The DBQ requires students to group the documents in three different ways (must use at least 2 docs to be a group).
When responding to a DBQ, your groupings need to be relevant and valid. You many not merely discuss authors whose last names all begin with Q and receive credit for a valid grouping.

6. Documents can be grouped by their:
Type (e.g., letter, book, diary, political platform, government document, statistics, newspaper account, business records, etc.)
Period in which the documents were written
Point of view (e.g., you may also make a group of two or more documents whose points of view disagree with each other; the idea is to show that you can combine and juxtapose the ideas)

7. Documents can also be grouped by their authors’:
Gender
Education, occupation, or social or economic class
Nationality
Religion
Location (e.g., rural, urban, Paris, etc.)
Ideology