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Mini -Aim: What tips should we remember for our DBQ essay exam tomorrow?

Mini -Aim: What tips should we remember for our DBQ essay exam tomorrow?. Here are the instructions given on the regents exam:

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Mini -Aim: What tips should we remember for our DBQ essay exam tomorrow?

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  1. Mini -Aim: What tips should we remember for our DBQ essay exam tomorrow?

  2. Here are the instructions given on the regents exam: This question is based on the accompanying documents. The question is designed to test your ability to work with historical documents. Some of these documents have been edited for the purposes of this question. As you analyze the documents, take into account the source of each document and any point of view that may be presented in the document.

  3. Keys to Good Writing 1. Write a provocative & compelling thesis that forces people to argue & take a stand. Never offer a factual statement as a thesis. 2. Pay attention to the nouns you use in your thematic controlling statement. The nouns invariably set the theme for your paragraph. 3. Write history in narrative past tense – was, were, invaded, wrote, began… 4. Analyze history in analytical present tense – demonstrates, indicates, means, shows, suggests 5. Historical specificity (Evidence) answers the questions – who, what, where, when – factual 6. Historical analysis answers the question – why – showing meaning

  4. What does it really mean to analyze?

  5. When you provide analysis, you show the reader you have a deeper understanding of the issue or topic Analyze – Asks writers to respond with a closely argued & detailed examination of a perspective or a development. A clearly written analysis will indicate the relevant interrelationship between key variables.

  6. Analysis Words • in order to • meaning • resulting in • since • thereby • therefore • though • thus • which • while • yet • although • allowing for • as a result of • because • consequently • due to • following • hence • however • if+speculation

  7. Golden Age Museum Project

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