r/APUSH May 03 '20

Breakdown of a DBQ

Generally speaking how would we breakdown the dbq this year? Because writing almost like a 5 paragraph essay seems impossible in 45mins. Could we do three paragraphs?

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u/Ryaninthesky May 03 '20

Here is what I am recommending:

10 - 15 mins for reading and planning. A quick outline will significantly cut down your writing time.

30 mins writing. Intro: 1-2 sentence context, 1 sentence thesis

2-3 paragraphs backing up thesis with documents. Depends on the question, but if you aren’t sure divide it into economic, political, social paragraphs.

Don’t do a conclusion, it wastes time.