How to do a continuity and change over time essay and A Comparative Essay .

1. How to do a continuity and change over time essay and A Comparative Essay.

2. CCOT • This essay deals specifically with analysis of continuities and changes over time covering at least one of the periods in the course outline. • It addresses, for example, technology, trade, culture, migrations, or environment. • The CCOT questions require analysis of process and explanation of causation with specific examples

3. Example CCOT Essay The time allotted for this essay is 40 minutes, 5 of which should be spent planning and/or outlining your answer. Directions: You are to answer the following question. You should spend 5 minutes organizing or outlining you essay. Write an essay that: • Has a relevant thesis and supports that thesis with appropriate historical evidence

4. Address all parts of the question. • Uses world historical context to show continuities and changes over time. • Analyzes the process of continuity and change over time.

5. Pick one of the following regions and analyze the continuities and changes in the region’s connections to the world trading systems from 1450-2000. Be sure to explain how alterations in the framework of international trade interacted with regional factors to produce continuities and changes throughout the period. • China • Latin America • Sub-Saharan Africa • Middle East

6. Another Ex. • Analyze major changes and continuities in the formation of national identities in ONE of the regions listed below from 1914-present. Be sure to include evidence from specific countries in the region selected. • Middle East • Southeast Asia • Sub-Saharan Africa

7. From the Princeton Review • Tend to deal with global issues • Trade, technology, culture, migrations, biological developments • You need to talk about how things were prior to the change and them make it clear why things changed • You must cover historical development

8. Process the question • Answer all parts of the question • Build framework • Baseline, impact, change, and continuity

9. Comparative Essay • This essay focuses on developments in at least two societies or regions. • It relates to major themes in the course, such as social and gender structures, interactions between or among societies, political organization, or economic systems. • Comparative questions always require analysis ofreasons for the similarities and differences identified. • Students may have the opportunity to choose different cases for comparisons

10. From the Princeton Review • Compare how 2 societies responded to a major event • Usually the easiest, but students score the lowest (fatigue) • Include BOTH similarities and differences • Address all parts of the question

11. Comparative Essay Ex. • The time allotted for this essay is 40 minutes, 5 minutes of which should be spent planning and/or outlining the answer. • Directions: you are to answer the following question. You should spend 5 minutes organizing or outlining your essay. Write an essay that:

12. Has a relevant thesis and supports that thesis with appropriate historical evidence • Addresses all parts of the question. • Makes direct, relevant comparisons. • Analyzes relevant reasons for similarities and differences.

13. Unfree labor systems were widely used for agricultural production in the period 1450-1750. Analyze the major similarities and differences between TWO of the following systems: • Caribbean Slavery • North American Slavery • West African Slavery • Russian Serfdom

14. Another Ex. • Within the period from 1450 to 1800, compare the processes (e.g., political, social, and economic) of empire building in the Spanish Empire with the empire-building processes in ONE of the following. • The Ottoman Empire OR • The Russian Empire

15. They tend to deal with global issues • Technology • Trade • Culture • Migrations • Biological development

16. You need to talk about how things were prior to the change and then make it clear why things changed • Must cover historical development • Answer all parts of the questions

17. What do they want from you? • Your soul (kidding) • Make connections • In any given period of time/history, can you explain what’s going on? • What was the affect on the rest of the world? • What changed about this society during this time period?

18. How did people interact with their environment? • What new ideas, thoughts, and styles came into existence? • How did different societies get along (or not) within a time period? • How did economic systems develop and what did they depend on in terms of agriculture, trade, labor, industrialization, and demands of consumers?

19. Who had power and who did not within a given culture and why? • Use transitional words • Write neatly • Try for correct spelling • Use simple and compound sentences

20. Watch your time • Ask to have it posted • Think before you write • You won’t need to know much about American History • Understand how Enlightenment had impact • What inspired revolutions? • Influence? • Type of gov’t created?

21. Multiple Choice Questions • 70 questions • 55 minutes • Questions jump around • 4 answer choices • Read question and put it in your own words • Answer in your own words • Process of elimination

22. Use best guess • You are assessed only on the total number of correct questions • Sometimes, it will be a picture, graph, political cartoon, painting, or map • It could also be a quotation for interpretation • Who said it?

23. Period 1: Technological and Environmental Transformations 8000 BCE-600 BCE= 5% • Period 2: Organization and Reorganization of Human Societies 6000 BCE-600 CE= 15% • Period 3: Regional and Transregional Interactions= 600 CE-1450= 20% • Period 4: Global Interactions 1450-1750= 20% • Period 5: Industrialization and Global Interaction 1750-1900= 20%

24. Period 6: Accelerating Global Change and Realignments 1900- Present= 20%