Full Description
Help your students navigate complex texts in history and social studies. This book shows you how to use document-based questions, or DBQs, to build student literacy and critical thinking skills while meeting rigorous state standards and preparing students for AP exams. DBQs can be implemented year-round and can be adjusted to meet your instructional needs. With the helpful advice in this book, you'll learn how to use DBQs to teach nonfiction and visual texts, including primary and secondary sources, maps, and paintings. You'll also get ideas for teaching students to examine different points of view and write analytical responses. Topics include:
Using the SOAPSETone (Speaker, Occasion, Audience, Purpose, Subject, Evidence and Tone) technique to to analyze visual and nonvisual texts;
Teaching students to distinguish between primary and secondary sources;
Working with multiple texts and learning to recognize the relationships between them;
Formulating DBQs to suit different types of assessment, including short-answer questions, multiple-choice questions, and in-class essay prompts;
Evaluating student responses and providing constructive feedback.
Contents
Contents
eResources
Meet the Author
Acknowledgements
1. Why Document Based Questions?
2. Teaching Students to Distinguish Between Primary and Secondary Sources
3. Teaching Students to Read Texts More Closely
4. Using the SOAPSETone Technique to Teach Students How to Analyze Documents
5. Working with Multiple Texts - Getting Students to Think Critically About the Relationship Between Sources
6. Working with Multiple Texts - Analyzing Texts Using the SOAPSETone Technique
7. Working with Multiple Texts - Integrating Information from Different Types of Sources
8. Responding to DBQs Framed as Multiple-Choice Questions
9. Responding to DBQs Framed as Short-Answer Questions
10. Responding to DBQs Framed as Essay Questions
11. Evaluating Students' Responses to Document-Based Questions
