Historical Reasoning Skills: Essay Prompts and Analysis
Enhance your historical reasoning skills with this detailed guide on types of essay prompts, focusing on contextualization, comparison, causation, and continuity or change over time. Understand how to analyze events, patterns, and trends in a comprehensive manner.
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TYPES OF ESSAY PROMPTS: HISTORICAL REASONING SKILLS Contextualization- seeing the connections between the particular and the general What was happening at the time the event happened or the document was created that might have had an influence? What was happening at the specific place where an event occurred? In the country as a whole? In the larger region? In the world? How does a specific event relate to larger processes? How do larger processes shape a specific event? How does the context in which a source is read or viewed inform how it is understood? Comparison- analyzing similarities and differences How is one development like/unlike another development from the same time/ a different time? Why did an event or development affect different groups in different ways? How does a viewpoint (from a historical actor or historian) compare with another when discussing the same event or historical development?
TYPES OF ESSAY PROMPTS: HISTORICAL REASONING SKILLS Causation- analyzing cause and effect What were the reasons for this event? What factors contributed to a specific patter or trend? What prompted this person/group to act/react this way? What resulted from this event, pattern, or action? What were the short-term effects? What were the long-term effects? What cause seemed to be the most significant? What effect seemed to be most significant and why? How do the assessments of historians concerning causation differ from those who experienced the event, pattern, or action? How might the chain of cause and effect have changed and at what point? What causes were contingent on previous effects? What individual choice (s) made a significant difference in the lead up to a particular event or trend? Was there a moment of chance that influenced the chain of events? Continuity or change over time- identifying long-term patterns What changed within a specific time period? What has remained the same within a specific time period? What can explain why some things have changed and others have not? How are continuity and change represented in different types of sources; for example, in graphs, charts, political cartoons, and texts? What might be the reasons behind different depictions of continuity and change?
STEP 1 Reread the DBQ, including the prompt and documents
STEP 2 With your shoulder partner, read all three sample essays Determine the DBQ rubric score for each and make a note in your notebook what you think their scores are (label!!)
STEP 3 Sample 1= 9 Sample 2= 7 Sample 3= 5 Did you guess right? Reread to see if you can figure out how they got these scores
STEP 4 Go back and reread your essay. Pick two things you want to work towards for the next DBQ
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