1. How to organize and Write a DBQ Essay
Follow these guidelines to write DBQ Essay

2. Task One Bucketing Bucket 1-civil disobedience
Bucket 2-Accepting Jail Time
Bucket 3- Embracing the Enemy
Bucket Labels

3. Task Two: Thesis Development and Road Map
The Chicken Foot
Disciplined civil disobedience
Gandhi used at least three different tactics to make nonviolence work:
Accepting jail time peacefully
Embracing the enemy

4. Your essay will have five (5) body paragraphs!1 2 3 4 5

5. Create a Title that works
Example What Made Gandhi’s non-violent movement work?

6. Paragraph # 1
1st have a grabber- (something interesting to grab readers attention)
2nd give background information to the reader-you can use the background essay!
3rd restate the question with key terms defined- What Made Gandhi’s non-violent movement work? Define (non-violent) Define (work)Example: What made Gandhi’s peaceful movement a success?
4th write down your thesis and roadmap: use the chicken foot because that is the thesis and roadmap! (There were at least three keys to Gandhi’s success in leading a nonviolent movement: disciplined civil disobedience, peaceful acceptance of jail time, and embracing the enemy).

7. Paragraph #2
1st start it with a baby thesis –the first thing on your chicken foot- (One key tactic was disciplined civil disobedience)
2nd give evidence from the documents to support that baby thesis: (pull out facts to support statement)
3rd Argument that baby thesis is true- now use your facts from the documents to argue that what you said is true! Prove it!

8. Paragraph #3
1st start it with a baby thesis –the second thing on your chicken foot- (accepting jail time peacefully)
2nd give evidence from the documents to support that baby thesis: (pull out facts to support statement)
3rd Argument that baby thesis is true- now use your facts from the documents to argue that what you said is true! Prove it!

9. Paragraph #4
1st start it with a baby thesis –the third thing on your chicken foot- (Embracing the enemy )
2nd give evidence from the documents to support that baby thesis: (pull out facts to support statement)
3rd Argument that baby thesis is true- now use your facts from the documents to argue that what you said is true! Prove it!

10. Paragraph #5 Conclusion: End the essay Sum it up
Restate thesis and main idea of essay
Don’t forget this paragraph
Don’t leave reader on cliff hanger