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Document Based Question (DBQ). What is a DBQ?. A Document Based Question (DBQ) is a free response essay question which requires students to read, analyze and sort anywhere from four to sixteen expository documents and functional texts charts, tables and images.
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What is a DBQ? • A Document Based Question (DBQ) is a free response essay question which requires students to read, analyze and sort anywhere from four to sixteen expository documents and functional texts charts, tables and images. • Once analyzed the documents are used as evidence to support a grade-level appropriate expository-argumentative essay in response to a question such as, “How Does the Constitution Guard Against Tyranny?”
The Process Step One Step Two Step Three Step Four Synthesis (creating a powerful thesis and organizing the essay) Pre-bucketing (forming a hypothesis) Bucketing – Gross Analysis (grouping the documents) The Analytical Question (examining the question) Thrash-out (clarifying evidence and argument) Hook Activity (engaging the students/activating prior knowledge) Background Essay (obtaining new knowledge/vocabulary) Document Analysis (examining individual documents) Step Five Step Six Step Seven Step Eight
DBQ Alignment to Differentiated Accountability Instructional Elements
Florida’s United States History End-of-Course Examination •Based on Florida’s Grade 9-12 American History standards •Civil War and Reconstruction through Present •Questions based on historical documents will be included •Multiple choice only, multiple forms to be given •Entirely computer based, except for students with pertinent IEPs or 504 plans