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How to organize and Write a DBQ Essay. Follow these guidelines to write DBQ Essay. Task One Bucketing. Bucket Labels. Bucket 1-civil disobedience Bucket 2-Accepting Jail Time Bucket 3- Embracing the Enemy. Task Two: Thesis Development and Road Map. The Chicken Foot.
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How to organize and Write a DBQ Essay • Follow these guidelines to write DBQ Essay
Task One Bucketing Bucket Labels Bucket 1-civil disobedience Bucket 2-Accepting Jail Time Bucket 3- Embracing the Enemy
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
Create a Title that works Example What Made Gandhi’s non-violent movement work?
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! • 3rdrestate 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? • 4thwrite 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).
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) • 3rdArgument that baby thesis is true- now use your facts from the documents to argue that what you said is true! Prove it!
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) • 3rdArgument that baby thesis is true- now use your facts from the documents to argue that what you said is true! Prove it!
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) • 3rdArgument that baby thesis is true- now use your facts from the documents to argue that what you said is true! Prove it!
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