 DBQ Warm Up Activities 
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| What's in it for me? |
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This page is for students who want to learn
strategies (tips) for answering DBQs (document based questions). |
| First Things First! |
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The first step is to understand that there are
many different types of documents. Here is a list of possible documents that you may
see on a New York State exam : photograph, poem/song, document, artifact, map, poster,
oral history, cartoon. Try clicking on the samples below and see if you can identify
the type of document, does it fit into one of the categories listed above? |
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The Hornbook. http://www.gettysburg.edu
~s330558/schooling.html |
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Thomas Jefferson's drawing of a macaroni
machine and instructions for making pasta, ca.1787.
(Thomas Jefferson Papers) http://lcweb2.loc.gov |
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Manuscript map, probably
made by a French voyageur, of Indian lands of eastern
Wisconsin, when part of Michigan Territory, annotated by Henry Rowe Schoolcraft, ca.1831.
(Henry Rowe Schoolcraft Papers) http://lcweb2.loc.gov |
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A New England Dame school in old colonial
times, 1713. Engraving (Bettman Archive) http://www.gettysburg.edu
~s330558/schooling.html |
Letter (pages 13-20), Varina Davis to
Montgomery Blair describing the capture of her
husband, Jefferson Davis, 6 June 1865. (Blair Family Papers) http://lcweb2.loc.gov |
Samuel F. B. Morse's colored
sketch of railway telegraph, ca. 1838.(Samuel Finley Breese Morse Papers)
http://lcweb2.loc.gov |
| See more Samples (Gr. 8) |
See more Samples (Gr. 9) |
See more Samples (Gr. 10) |
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| DBQ Warmup Activity 1 |
| Creating a graphic organizer can you help
analyze a document. View each document and complete the graphic organizer shown
below. Click here to download the organizer to your workstation. |
Document
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| DBQ Warmup Activity 1 View each document and categoprize the key words key images and
tone by completing the graphic organizer shown below. Click here to download the
organizer to your workstation. Click here to download the
organizer to your workstation. |
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