Unit 3 Assignments

DBQ Dissection

• Read the DBQ prompt and the 7 sources.
• Analyze the response and highlight the following parts:
  • Contextualization
    • Describes a broader historical context relevant to the prompt.
  • Thesis
    • Responds to the prompt with a historically defensible thesis/claim that establishes a line of reasoning.
  • Evidence from the documents
    • Uses the content of at least three documents to address the topic of the prompt.
  • Evidence outside the documents
    • Uses at least one additional piece of specific historical evidence (beyond that found in the documents) relevant to an argument about the prompt.
  • Sourcing
    • For at least three documents, explains how or why the document’s point of view, purpose, historical situation, and/or audience is relevant to an argument
  • Complexity
    • Demonstrates a complex understanding of the historical development that is the focus of prompt, using evidence to corroborate, qualify, or modify an argument that addresses the question.

Highlighting option:

• Print, highlight, scan
• Open doc using a paint app/software
• screenshot and use a photo app.
• whatever else you can think of.