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Analysis to Argument: The Anatomy of the DBQ

Leadership Conference 2012

The Agenda
What

is a DBQ?

Why?
The

experience

Resources available

to us

Whats old, is new!

21st century learning skills were critical for success 100 years ago, are critical for success today, and will be critical for success in the future.

+Critical Thinking +Communication +Collaboration +Creativity

THINK!
What makes a fulfilling career?

Why do we teach?

Play

Passion

Purpose

What is a DBQ?

Ask

students to take positions on issues or problems and support their conclusions. students to write effectively!

Teach

What is a DBQ?
Focus

on critical thinking skills and ask students to make comparisons, draw analogies, apply knowledge to the given data, and require students to apply historic analysis.

A Glimpse into the Classroom

Dialogue With a Partner

What

21st Century skills were evident in the video?

play, and purpose evident in the video?

Were passion,

The Issue @ Hand

What

students lack Research Skills

Specific

Instruction and Practice in Researching

Critical

Reading and Thinking Skills

Standards Based

Why should we teach with documents?

Experience

Multiple Perspectives

Practitioner

Pedagogy

High-order Thinking

How do documents enhance learning and skill development?

Analyze

Evaluate

Create

In the end: students develop confidence in their ability to acquire knowledge.

How do we address student needs?

Vocabulary Quantity Scaffolding

Differentiate!

Assessment
Document
Student

Analysis (formative)

writing (formative and summative)

Performance assessment

(summative)

Collaboration
Students
CLT Interdisciplinary Team-teaching

Implementation @ LJMS

09-10

Intro Implementation Civics CLT Development

10-11
11-12

Further Development US History CLT

Implementation @ LJMS

12-13

Develop + Implement DBQ Action Plan 2 Common DBQs per grade level Writing Portfolios CLT Norming

The Digital Classroom

The fun and the adventure of learning is in the hunt: finding as many pieces as possible, sorting them out, and building defensible patterns of evidence (November, 2001)

The Digital Classroom

Play

The freedom to play

Passion
Purpose

Understand the importance of risk-taking

Anatomy of a DBQ
The

question

The

documents scaffolding questions Analyze, organize, and pull out evidence

essay Use the documents and background knowledge to answer the question

The

The Process (DBQ Project)

The

Hook Exercise

The
The

Background Essay
Analytical Question and Pre-Bucketing Analysis

Document Bucketing The

Analytical Essay

The Hook Exercise

Get

students interested in the unit/topic a critical thinking skill

Introduce

Best done

with partners or groups

The Background Essay

Provides historical

context and background information for the DBQ playing field Ensures that all students have a basic working knowledge

Levels the

Good

chance to review vocabulary

Analytical ? And Pre-Bucketing

Students

restate question to show understanding key termsmake sure that all students use the same definition of key terms in the Analytical ? on doc titles, background essay, ?) categories for the docs

Define

Pre-Bucketingpredict (based

Pre-bucketing
Predict bucket categories based on analytical ? And document titles
Re-enlist Reason #1 Re-enlist Reason #2 Re-enlist Reason #3

Document Analysis
Model

and Coach Scaffolding ?s Make notes in the margins Document Analysis Sheet present documents Group students with like document 4 brains better than 1

Students

Bucketing
Less threatening

term than placing in analytical categories

visual is key to writing a thesis statement, setting up, and organizing an essay 3 buckets for this style of DBQ Why?....each bucket becomes a body paragraphadd and intro and conclusion, and you have a nice 5-paragraph essay!

The

Typically

Bucketing
Sick and dead men means well men must fight

The Committee of Congress gives me hope

We are not a nation of summer soldiers

The Analytical Essay

Sounds

scary eh? The key is organization! to get students

Several options

organized The Chicken Foot Essay Outline

The Chickenfoot

Question or Thesis

Main Idea #2

The Chickenfoot

I will re-enlist because

The committee of Congress gives me hope

Resources Available
in American History, World History, and Civics From the DBQ Project www.dbqproject.com

Mini-Qs

MS Social Studies Blackboard

A TON of primary sources are available for each grade level. While these are not organized into a DBQ it is a good source for creating your own!

HS Blackboard

For every HS social studies course as well!

Library

of Congress www.loc.gov

National

Archives www.archives.gov

www.digitalvaults.org

www.myloc.gov

www.primarysourcelearning.org

Dialogue Discussion
What

components did you see in this project to enhance critical thinking skills of students? I take this back to my school +
teams?

How can

Where would we start?

For More Info

Ross Bosse -- rjbosse@fcps.edu

Training Dates DBQ Project In-service (mid-October) Get a binder! Advanced Academic Seminars (Dec 6) Follow-up; next steps