Review the Writing Skills

1. Review the Writing Skills

2. Free Response Essay • Identify the critical words in the prompt that indicate: • Time period • What process is required (assess the validity, evaluate, compare/contrast) • What content is appropriate as supportive information (political, social, economic. Cultural, intellectual)

3. Free Response Essay • Ask clarifying questions about the prompt to focus on the issues at hand. • Decide which prompt or aspects of the prompt to write about by: • Making a list of possible information • Selecting the prompt or aspects with the longest most detailed list

4. Free Response • Organize your facts by making a network tree or an outline. • Write a strong thesis sentence that: • Deals with all aspects of the topic • Takes a clear position • Provides an organizational framework • Addresses the core issue AND • May be positive or negative or both

5. Free Response • Organize facts into categories such as • Political social, economic (in my opinion a no brainer to choose) • Chronological periods • Be sure to answer the prompt completely by: • Dealing with all topics suggested and/or • Examining the entire chronological period mentioned

6. Free Response • Write a strong introductory paragraph that has: • A thesis • A general description of the topics to be addressed in the essay • (perhaps) a definition of general terms • A transitional sentence that links the paragraph to the body of the paper

7. Free Response • Provide paragraphs with topic sentences that support the thesis. • Write a concluding paragraph (if you have time) that: • Summarizes the thesis • Review the significant points from the essay

8. DBQ’s • Remember: • Write a thesis • Tie the Introduction to the body • Follow many of the same rules as an FRQ • You must incorporate documents with your outside information • For an 8 or a 9 you should have contrary paragraph for dissenting facts or documents.

9. DBQ’s • Read your prompt several times • Rephrase the prompt into a question or create a clarifying question. • Drain your brain before you look at documents (make a list of all the info pertaining to the era) • Summarize the documents 9easiest is five W’s • Quickly survey the outside info and the summaries of the documents and construct a thesis statement. • Sort documents and outside info into + (supports your thesis) or – (challenges your thesis) • Write essay

10. Literature that Made differences • In the Hands of an Angry God • Washington Irving, James Fenimore Cooper • The Wealth of Nations – Adam Smith • Ralph Waldo Emerson, Henry Davis Thoreau • Uncle Tom’s Cabin – Harriet Beecher Stowe • How the Other Half Lives – Jacob Riis • The History of Standard Oil – Ida Tarbell • The Jungle – Upton Sinclair • On the Road – Jack Kerouac • Howl – Allen Ginsberg • The Other America – Michael Harrington • Silent Spring – Rachel Carson • The Feminine Mystique – Betty Friedan

11. Supreme Court Cases • Marbury v. Madison (1803) • Fletcher v. Peck (1810) • Gibbon v. Ogden (1824) • McCulloch v. Maryland (1819) • Worchester v. Georgia (1831) • Scott v. Sanford (1857) • Plessy v. Ferguson (1896) • Korematsu v. The US (1944) • Sweatt v. Painter (1950) Brown v The Board of Education (1954) • Mapp, Gideon, Escobedo, Miranda Cases • Roe v. Wade (1973) • Bakke v. The University of Cali Regents (1978)

12. Music, Art • Tin Pan Alley (1890 – 1960) • Ragtime (1890 – 1920) • Jazz (1920 to present) • Big Band (1930’s 1950’s) • Rock and Roll (1954 – to present) • Rhythm and Blues (1954 – present) • Hudson River School (early to mid 1800’s) • Impressionism (late 19th century) • Western Art (Charles Russell, Frederick Remington, George Caitlin) • Realism (Ashcan School, Modernism, ) New Deal , Abstract, Pop