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How to Write a DBQ (Document Based Question)Shoe Sort: Have student put their left shoe in a pile in the middle of the room. Select one

student and tell them to sort the shoes (no other instructions). After they finish have them

explain their criteria for sorting. Ask the students if there are other ways the shoes could have

been sorted. xplain how a !"# is like a shoe sort$ they will get a set of documents and have tosort them into like groups% the idea is that they understand that there are many ways documents

can be grouped.

DBQ Pre-write Prompt: Using the shoes in the class, what types of people can be

identified by the types of shoes worn to school.

Paragraph Categories Document #s POV ideas

Thesis Statement_____________________________________________________!!!!

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'&ampe o thesis additiona document and irst $od* paragraph or prompt a$o+e,

The shoes worn to cass identi* the t*pe o peope that woud wear such a shoe- Those t*pes opeope incude athetes .ashionistas/ and rodeo o+ers-

0t woud ha+e $een interesting to ha+e a sipper $ecause that woud ha+e added the a1* t*pe o

person to the mi& and e+er*one 2nows that schoos are u o a1* peope- "nother t*pe o person

woud $e represented $* croc this woud represent the person with no ashion sense-The irst t*pe o person is the athete- 3Document4 5 is a high,top snea2er6 this is rom a

$as2et$a pa*er $ecause $as2et$a pa*ers need an2e support- 3Document4 7 is a ceat6 soccer

pa*ers wear ceats to gain traction- 8ina* 3document4 9 is a running shoe this represents thepeope who i2e to :o$ or run or e&ercise- 0t is understanda$e that a runner woud choose to wear

such a shoe $ecause it is ightweight and e&i$e with a soe that woud pre+ent sipping e+en in wet

conditions-The ne&t t*pe o person that can $e identiied $* the shoes worn is the .ashionista4;

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Time management

or directi+e words?

What are the parameters? (Time pace cass categories etc-)

"re there an* other 2e* terms are in the prompt?

Panning

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One thing that the DBQ essa* as2s *ou to do is to identi* one or more groups who are +aid to

the prompt $ut whose +oice is %OT heard in the documents pro+ided-

'&ampe The prompt is a$out reigion in the Kidde 'ast and the documents come rom

Christian Kusim and Moroastrian sources- Who is missing?

'&ampe The prompt is a$out distinct group roes in societ* and the documents come rom

ruers merchants and armers- Who is missing?

Some groups to thin2 a$out

eite armers warriors speciic reigions

women merchants schoars priests mon2s nunsN

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- !/thenticity reliability and acc/racy '&amine the author and the t*pe o source to determine

WH it is accurate and reia$e- 0s the document an oicia report? Propaganda? Pri+ate etter?etc- 0s the author an inside or outside o$ser+er?

Vespasiano da Bisticci o 8orence had a roe in the ormation o a the great i$raries o histime. He et a coection o == $iographies- He wor2ed or Pope %ichoas V during the

ormation o his papa i$rar* and was a eading Humanist phiosopher o the age- The

oowing is rom his $iograph* on Cosimo Kedici eader o the great 8orentine ami*

3Cosimo $ecame increasing* aware o the act that i he wanted Rod to ha+e merc* on him and

conser+e him in the possession o his tempora goods he had to turn to pious wa*s--- his

conscience $othered him a$out some mone* which he had come $* not Luite cean*-Wanting to it this weight rom his shouders he went to ta2 to Pope 'ugenius--- to satis*

himse and to un$urden his conscience he--- spent in a more than ort* thousand

orins---on the $uiding---4

P5: Da Bisticci/s +iew o Cosimo de Kedici is +aid $ecause he was a contemporar* irst

hand o$ser+er o the Kedici ami* and as an insider to the court o 8orence and a noted

$iographer o the da* he woud ha+e great insight into the Kedici ami*- "so $eing within

reach o the poweru ami* it is not hard to see wh* Da Bisticci woud produce a a+ora$e+iew o Cosimo-

Mhou Daguan Chinese en+o* and high ran2ing mem$er o a deegation sent to Cam$odia $*

Uu$iai Uhan- Written in a 5J report to the emperor ater a *ear ong sta*-

30n Cam$odia women attend to trade- '+en a Chinese who arri+es there and ta2es a woman wi

proit great* rom her trading a$iities- The* do not ha+e permanent stores $ut simp* spread a

piece o mat on the ground- '+er*one has her own spot-4

P5: Mhou Daguan a Chinese en+o* to Cam$odia indicates that women pa*ed a +ita roe in

Cam$odia/s mar2et pace econom*- His comments accurate* descri$e these roes $ecause heo$ser+ed them or more than a *ear- He has itte reason to report ase* to his superiors in

China-

- $one '&amine the te&t o a document to determine its tone- (Satire iron* ear anger sadness

etc-)

@eonardo Da Vinci artist in+entor and practica engineer- "though his ideas were oten seen asoutandish $* the peope o his da* modern engineers ha+e ound most o his pans to $e sound

and easi$e e+en in his own da*- The oowing is rom a etter Da Vinci wrote to the Du2e o

Kian

3---0 can aso ma2e a 2ind o cannon which is ight and eas* o transport with which to hur sma

stones i2e hai and o which the smo2e causes great terror to the enem* so that the* suerhea+* oss and conusion--- When it is impossi$e to use cannon 0 can supp* in their stead

cataputs mangones trabocchi and other instruments o admira$e eicienc* not in genera use

0n short as the occasion reLuires 0 can supp* ininite means o attac2 and deense-4

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P5: Da Vinci e&pains to the Du2e that he is capa$e o in+enting a +ariet* o weapons- The

conident $oastu nature o Da Vinci/s etter to the Du2e is understanda$e when *ou considerthat he was tr*ing to se himse and his a$iities to the Du2e-

%icoaus Copernicus a Poish astronomer was the ounder o the heiocentric ordering o thepanets6 chaenging the $eies o the Cathoic Church- 8rom his $oo20evolutions of the

Heavenly "odies pu$ished in 579 when Copernicus was sure he was d*ing- (0n act he died E

hours ater recei+ing the irst cop* o the $oo2-)

3I can easily conceive, most Holy Father, that as soon as some people learn that in thisbook which I have written concerning the revolutions of the heavenly bodies, I ascribecertain motions to the Earth, they will cry out at once that I and my theory should be

rejected.---I am aware that a philosopher's ideas are not subject to the judgment ofordinary persons ...For it is the duty of an astronomer to compose the history of thecelestial motions through careful and epert study.!

P5: The tone o conidence in Copernicus/ 3

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P5 Practice ''(pic2 documents and write summar*,POV statements do not write SO"PS)Document 5

Rio+ani Carpini, a 8ranciscan riar sent $* Pope 0nnocent 0V as an am$assador to the Rreat Uhan (Ru*u2) to protest the recent

attac2s $* Kongos on Christians- Carpini produced a detaied account o Kongo societ* in the 5thcentur*-

30n the whoe word there are to $e ound no more o$edient su$:ects that the Tartars Kongos---The* pa* their ords more respec

than an* other peope and woud hard* dare ie to them---Wars Luarres the iniction o $odi* harm and mansaughter do not

occur among them and there are no arge scae thie+es or ro$$ers among them-4

Document Renghis Uhan Kongo eader- He united the Kongo tri$es in 5= and set out to ui what he $eie+ed was the destin* o his

and his son/s to conLuer the 2nown word-

3K* greatest peasure in ie is ma2ing war deeating enemies orcing their $eo+ed to weep riding on their horses em$racin

their wi+es and daughters---4

Document

Si+estr6 the head o St- KichaeXs Konaster* in a +iage near Uie+- He was one in a series o

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