Sunday, March 9, 2014
Practice DBQ Reflection
The practice DBQ was not as bad as I thought it would be. The idea of writing a DBQ does not seem to difficult, but of course, it did take quite some time to organize my thoughts before writing the essay, and because of this I ended up not finish the essay within 55 minutes. Although this may be, I believe it will not be that difficult to improve my skill in writing the DBQ essays. The lack of a requirement for having outside knowledge definitely helped a lot since it was much easier to just make reference to the documents, right in front of me. Then, like I mentioned earlier, grouping the documents and organizing my thoughts on how to explain my thesis was definitely challenging.
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yep, not having to include outside detail is a major plus here! But the articulation of the thesis and the groups are vital, for without that, the essay won't gain much in the way of points! In your practice essay, the thesis was solid, as was the grouping of the documents. Time was a problem for you; you demonstrated your understanding of three documents and used two to support your thesis. You did not include point of view, nor did you get to the additional document, so if this were scored, your score would be a 2. Let's see how the timed version goes; let me know if you need help!
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