1. KP7 DBQ Practice
The Scopes Trial

2. Primary Sources Summarize and HIPP
Document 1: The Butler Act
Document 2: WJB Testimony
Document 3: Scopes Indicted

3. DBQ Rubric Evidence and Analysis from the Documents
Accurately DESCRIBES the content of at least THREE documents to address the topic of the prompt (NOT QUOTE!)  
SUPPORTS an argument in response to the prompt using at least SIX documents.
The response must use the content of the documents to support an argument in response to the prompt.
ANALYZES and EXPLAINS how or why the document’s point of view, purpose, historical situation, and/or audience is relevant to an argument for at least THREE documents.
Summarize the document.
Use the content of the document to help support an argument or thesis.
HIPP the document and explain how it helps the reader better understand the document or support your argument

4. Modern Sources Summarize and Explain
The Continuing Fight in Tennessee
Inherit the Wind
Bill Nye vs. Ken Ham

5. DBQ Rubric Analysis and Reasoning
Demonstrates a complex understanding of the historical development that is the focus of the prompt, using evidence to corroborate, qualify, or modify an argument that addresses the question.
Explaining nuance of an issue by analyzing multiple variables
Explaining both similarity and difference, or explaining both continuity and change, or explaining multiple causes, or explaining both cause and effect
Explaining relevant and insightful connections within and across periods
Confirming the validity of an argument by corroborating multiple perspectives across themes
Qualifying or modifying an argument by considering diverse or alternative views or evidence. This understanding must be part of the argument, not merely a phrase or reference
Essay goes above and beyond the scope of the prompt
Showing how complex an issue is by analyzing/comparing its components (subject is not just black and white)
Explaining the other half of the prompt’s HTS (cause/effect, continuity/change, etc.)
What other event/development in history is this like, and why it that connection important? (Synthesis)
Proving your argument by analyzing it through another theme (MAGPIES)
Showing that not everyone agrees using the documents and outside information, and why that disagreement is important.

6. Prompt
Evaluate the extent to which the Scopes Trial was a fight between tradition and modernity in the 1920s.

7. Assignment Introductory Paragraph Outside Evidence Contextualization
Thesis
Outside Evidence
3 examples with explanation how they connect to the document or your argument