DBQ Teacher Planning Support
A Planning Guide for Teaching a Full DBQ
Getting Started:
- View a brief overview of the step
- Do the step as a student for the DBQ you plan to teach
- Develop your plan of attack for teaching this step
Before you get started, you will need to think about what DBQ/Mini-Q you want to teach with your students. For a list of DBQs/Mini-Qs, click HERE. This will be the DBQ you will work through for each of the following sections. If you are not sure what DBQ/Mini-Q you want to teach, you can use one of our samples available on our website.
Step 1 - The Hook
The Hook Planning Tasks:
Complete the Hook Activity for the DBQ/Mini-Q you plan to teach.
View from the Teacher Perspective:
Keeping the goal (engagement) and time frame (15-20 min. activity), how would you teach this Hook Activity with your students?
Step 2 - Background Essay
The BGE Planning Tasks:
Read and annotate the Background Essay for the DBQ/Mini-Q you plan to teach.
View from the Teacher Perspective:
How will you teach the Background Essay to your students? Will it be an assignment or will you teach literacy strategies, such as vocabulary, annotating, or summarizing? (We strongly recommend more of the latter!) How will you know if the students understand the background?
Step 3 - Understanding the Question
Question Planning Tasks:
Complete the Understanding the Question page for the DBQ/Mini-Q you plan to teach. If you are doing a DBQ (not a Mini-Q), you do not have this page. You can still re-write the DBQ question in your own words and think about possible buckets.
View from the Teacher Perspective:
What terms in the DBQ/Mini-Q question will you need to clarify or kids may struggle with? How will you introduce buckets? Will you have the kids try to predict the possible buckets before moving forward?
Step 4 - Document Analysis
Documents Planning Tasks:
Analyze the documents in the DBQ/Mini-Q you plan to teach.
View from the Teacher Perspective:
How will you teach document analysis for this DBQ/Mini-Q? Which document(s) do you want to model or work through with your students? What collaborative strategy(-ies) will you utilize for document analysis?
Step 5 - Preparing to Write
Pre-Write Planning Tasks:
Complete the "Preparing to Write" page for the DBQ/Mini-Q you plan to teach.
View from the Teacher Perspective:
How will you teach bucketing and thesis development with your students? What kind of thrash-out/debate strategy, allowing students to talk out their arguments before writing, would work well with this DBQ/Mini-Q?
Step 6 - Writing the Essay
Writing Planning Tasks:
Don't worry. You don't have to write an essay! You may want to complete the outline guide though. Check out the three sample anchor papers that are included with the DBQ/Mini-Q.
View from the Teacher Perspective:
How will your students write this essay? Will it be an in-class (possibly timed) essay? Is there anything you need to teach about the essay before students begin writing? What supports (outline guide, sentence starters, etc.) will you provide for students? Any editing and revisiing (rainbow highlighting, writers' workshop, etc.)?
NOW GO TEACH THAT DBQ/MINI-Q!!! YOU ARE READY!!!
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