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Higher education english language arts dbqs for Microsoft Word
The English Bill of Rights vs. US Bill of Rights
The student will demonstrate knowledge of the political philosophies that shaped the development of United States constitutional government.
a. Analyze key ideas of limited government and the rule of law as seen in the Magna Carta, the Petition of Rights, and the English Bill of Rights.
Instructions: Complete the table and the questions that follow.
The English Bill of Rights, US Bill of Rights, and What Does This Mean?
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6th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
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AP Language-Style Synthesis Essay Prompt or Practice Activity
Here's an original synthesis-style essay prompt that's perfect for AP Lang & Comp or a college Comp/Rhetoric class (where I use it). Can be used as a formal assessment tool, or as an informal introduction to synthesis thinking and writing--I generally have students do some freewriting with it, and then do a Lincoln-Douglas-style debate to talk it through.
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11th - 12th, Higher Education
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Rousseau - Social Contract Excerpts & Primary Source DBQs
This is an in-depth and challenging assignment. Students will need to read, and demonstrate their understanding of, complex writings from Rousseau's "Social Contract." I've taken several hours to go through the primary source document to excerpt it to less than 4 pages so it'll be more accessible to students; be aware that it's still a challenging read. The challenge is worth it though, and this will push even your highest-achieving students to work hard! I created this one to be easy to use on
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9th - 12th, Higher Education
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In Cold Blood: Students Create and Write Synthesis Essay
This assignment, accompanied with a thorough rubric, asks students to create their own synthesis prompt and essay based issues found in Truman Capote's In Cold Blood. There are nine prompt suggestions (or students can create their own). They are responsible for finding five academic sources that could be used to defend, qualify, AND challenge the prompt. They must then create an annotated bibliography that cites the source and explains how it could be used to address the prompt. Students must in
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9th - 12th, Higher Education
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AP Language Synthesis Essay with Bully Documentary
This prompt is an AP English Language and Composition Synthesis Essay question. It contains six reviews of the documentary BULLY that students must use to defend, qualify, or challenge a statement provided. I have limited the number of pages students may write to two, but it is an editable Word document. Likewise, this is a take-home assignment and would need to be modified slightly if done in a timed-situation. Modified AP Synthesis Rubric provided.
It obviously requires that students have watc
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9th - 12th, Higher Education
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Interwar Years: Japanese Expansion (DBQ)
This resource covers Japanese expansion during the interwar years. This DBQ is a great assignment for teachers covering the interwar year period and the road to WWII. Many students understand that Japan was involved in WWII, but fail to understand the motives of their involvement. Upon completion of this DBQ students will have a better understanding as to why Japan was trying to expand its empire, and how it planned to achieve that goal.I am currently using this in my IB history class, but it
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9th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
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DBQ Grading Rubric for Historical Analysis or APUSH
The file contains a grading rubric which will help you evaulate DBQ essays quickly and helps students analyze their own work.
The rubric is color coded; students used the color coding of the rubric to highlight the sections of their essays that illustrate those essential elements of good historical analytical writing.
For example, students first highlight or underline their thesis in red. Then students highlight or underline all topic sentences for each paragraph in blue; then each of three supp
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10th - 12th, Higher Education
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Argumentative Essay: Globalization
Argumentative Essay: Has globalization of the world economy created a better world, or has it made the world a more dangerous place?Essay background, prompt and guidelines provided.Document sources on information include;3 all text documents1 photograph with short text document2 charts1 political cartoonCan be used in an array of humanities courses.
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9th - 12th, Higher Education
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Napoleon: A Closer Look at the Napoleonic Code
This is an excellent resource for anyone cover the French Revolution and Napoleon as it will familiarize students with some of the more important laws that were being enforced during Napoleon's reign.In 1804 Napoleon enacted is Napoleonic Code, the first modern legal code to be adopted with a pan-European scope, and it strongly influenced the law of many of the countries formed during and after the Napoleonic Wars. The Napoleonic Code influenced developing countries outside Europe, especially i
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9th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
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"The Handmaid's Tale" & the Bumble Rebrand of 2024 Discussion Questions
Engage your students in a real-world and modern discussion about Bumble's recent rebrand with Margaret Atwood's famous dystopian novel, The Handmaid's Tale. This document (formatted as Microsoft Word Document) can easily be used as a discussion guide or reworked to to be an independent analysis assignment for students. It includes a total of 14 critical-thinking questions that reference societal influences and modern dating culture, connections to The Handmaid's Tale, and Feminist Literary Theor
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9th - 12th, Higher Education
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Cold War Containment Policy Debate - Primary Sources & DBQs to spur discussion
This is an in-depth and challenging assignment. Students will need to read, and demonstrate their understanding of, complex writings from key politicians during the Cold War. Assign half of the class to read the excerpts from Kennan's "Long Telegram" (a document likely mentioned in your textbook). The other half of the class is to read "Mutual Trust and Confidence" by Wallace (a speech likely not mentioned in your textbook). Kennan and Wallace have VASTLY different ideas for how to handle th
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9th - 12th, Higher Education
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Primary Source Analysis: Pericles' Funeral Oration
In this activity, students will use the SOAPPSTone analysis strategy to analyze an excerpt from Ancient Greece's "Pericles' Funeral Oration." The document includes selected vocabulary definitions, comprehension questions, and an analysis sheet. This activity was originally used with Honors 9th grade World Civilizations, but it is a challenging document!
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9th - 12th, Higher Education
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Also included in:Â Unit on Ancient Greece and Rome
Montesquieu - Spirit of the Laws Excerpts and DBQs
This is an in-depth and challenging assignment. Students will need to read, and demonstrate their understanding of, complex writings from Montesquieu's "Spirit of the Laws." I've taken several hours to go through the primary source document to excerpt it to less than 4 pages so it'll be more accessible to students; be aware that it's still a challenging read. The challenge is worth it though, and this will push even your highest-achieving students to work hard! I created this one to be easy to
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9th - 12th, Higher Education
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Global History Evaluation Activity - Peter the "Great"?
Here's an activity that really gets students to not just cite evidence but to make the next step and start to analyze that evidence by constructing an argument. While it's probably best used in a Global classroom or as preparation for a Global History Regents examination, it concludes with a writing activity based on the Part 2 essay for the Common Core English Regents exam--a great product for some humanities collaboration!
The topic for this activity is Peter the Great and his transformati
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6th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
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DBQ HIPP Writing Template for APUSH
Teaching students how to write DBQs have been a challenge. Many students develop create ideas but stop short of specific explanation. I created this HIPP writing guide as a way to help my students strengthen their arguments. It has worked so far and I have seen an increase in writing skills.
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9th - 12th, Higher Education
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Ancient Mythology DBQ
This is a DBQ that explores similarities and differences between Norse, Egyptian, and Greek mythologies.
This DBQ comes with a background essay, 12 documents, a document analysis sheet that can be copied to have one for each document, and guidelines for an essay. It can be edited as needed. I edited some of the documents for spelling and grammar before adding them to the DBQ. Sources are provided.
Read the background essay with your students. Have students read and evaluate the 12 documents
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10th - 12th, Higher Education
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5-3-1 Summarizing/Analysis Graphic Organizer
Helpful for students who need help with summarizing/finding the main idea of a text or visual source, this graphic organizer can be used to analyze nonfiction texts, fictional texts, and primary source documents for social studies. This strategy helps students to flesh out the main ideas of a text, video, or visual source by providing a guide for analysis. This activity encourages academic discussion; promoting partner work for the completion of some portions of the activity. Used with my fifth
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4th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
Taxation/Types of Taxes DBQ
Students will read about the different types of taxes (Flat, Progressive, Regressive) found in the US, They will then be given a persuasive essay prompt for them to determine which type of taxes system they endorse.
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8th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
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Global - Primary/Secondary Sources - 18/25 - Fascism & World War II - 10th Grade
Twenty-one short-answer questions, worth 24 total points and spanning 14 pages, based on primary and secondary sources about the rise of fascism in Germany, World War II, the Holocaust and genocide. These 14 pages of questions can be useful to any social studies curriculum based on world/global history. This assignment correlates to my 10th grade Units 10-11 (Out of 20 total 10th grade units) of my reading and study guides for global history.Unit 10 (The Rise of Fascism)Unit 11 (World War II)Man
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6th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education, Staff
Civil Rights Speech Analysis (ELA-History Common Core Aligned)
Analysis of three key Civil Rights era speeches: 1) Martin Luther King Jr's "I Have a Dream" speech, 2) John Lewis' "The Militant" speech, and 3) Stokely Carmichael's "What We Want" speech. Students read the speech in class, analyze for ELA and History standards, and then write a paragraph analysis. Once all speeches are read, there is a comparison of the three speeches and their effects on the Civil Rights movement and finally a structured essay guideline assignment.
ELA-History Common Core
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7th - 12th, Higher Education
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Fences Discussion Questions
Three discussion questions for the play, Fences, by August Wilson. These questions deal with character complexity, conflict, and literary elements.
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11th - 12th, Higher Education
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Global - Primary/Secondary Sources - 08/25 - Absolutism/Mercantilism - 9th Grade
Eighteen short-answer questions, worth 20 total points and spanning 12 pages, based on primary and secondary sources about the Ages of Mercantilism (Triangular Trade) & Absolutism (King Louis & Peter the Great). These 12 pages of questions can be useful to any social studies curriculum based on world/global history. This assignment correlates to my 9th grade Units 19-20 (out of 20 total 9th grade units) of my reading and study guides for global history:Unit 19 (Mercantilism & the Tri
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5th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education, Staff
Global History Evaluation Activity - Causes of the French Revolution
Here's an activity that really gets students to not just cite evidence but to make the next step and start to analyze that evidence by constructing an argument. While it's probably best used in a Global classroom or as preparation for a Global History Regents examination, it concludes with a writing activity based on the Part 2 essay for the Common Core English Regents exam--a great product for some humanities collaboration!
The topic for this activity is the French Revolution, but it helps
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6th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
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Global - Primary/Secondary Sources - 11/25 - Agrarian Revolution - 10th Grade
Sixteen short-answer questions, worth 23 total points and spanning 14 pages, based on primary and secondary sources about the Agrarian and Industrial Revolutions. These 14 pages of questions can be useful to any social studies curriculum based on world/global history. This assignment correlates to my 10th grade Unit 3 (Out of 20 total 10th grade units) of my reading and study guides for global history:Unit 3 (The Agrarian & Industrial Revolutions)Many of the following sub-topics are also cov
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6th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education, Staff
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