AP European History

1. AP European History Writer’s Workshop - Groupings

2. The Basic Core-Scoring Guide You must meet ALL six basic core criteria in order to score above a 6 on your DBQ.

3. The Basic Core-Scoring Guide First 6 points: • Thesis • Use majority of docs • Understand the docs • Support thesis w/ docs • POV • Groupings

4. The Expanded Core-Scoring Guide Earn an additional 3 points (up to 9 total) with expanded core. These are more holistic and subjective to the reader.

5. Grouping Documents for the DBQ • The DBQ requires students to group the documents in three different ways (must use at least 2 docs to be a group). • When responding to a DBQ, your groupings need to be relevant and valid. You many not merely discuss authors whose last names all begin with Q and receive credit for a valid grouping.

6. Documents can be grouped by their: • Type (e.g., letter, book, diary, political platform, government document, statistics, newspaper account, business records, etc.) • Period in which the documents were written • Point of view (e.g., you may also make a group of two or more documents whose points of view disagree with each other; the idea is to show that you can combine and juxtapose the ideas)

7. Documents can also be grouped by their authors’: • Gender • Education, occupation, or social or economic class • Nationality • Religion • Location (e.g., rural, urban, Paris, etc.) • Ideology