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Please Help!! I'm very clueless about DBQs.

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Please Help!! I'm very clueless about DBQs.

I'm trying to formulate a DBQ about the Salem Witch Trials, but this is my first DBQ and I have no idea what to do. :confused:

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Do you know the guidelines and how to answer the question and all that at all?

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can someone please (without wasting too much of their time) tell me what a DBQ is? I'm going off to check the help section and google the meaning.

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A DBQ is a document-based-question.

Basically, you are presented with an essay prompt and a certain number of documents. You have to formulate an essay to answer the prompt using the documents presented to you as well as outside information on the topic.

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thank you!

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I'm just not sure how to word it.

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You mean how to word the whole essay or how to do the essay or what exactly?

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How to word the question. My teacher just wants us to write a question and find the documents, basically making our own DBQ.

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Oh, ok.

Umm.. Well what do you want it to be on? Have you decided on a topic?

Contact me on my msn or aim if you want, I'll help you there.

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My topic is the Salem witch trials. I was thinking along the lines of "How did the witch trials affect the people living in the community?" or something like that.

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Hmm.. To what extent did the Salem Witch Trials affect those individuals living in the community?

Not very different from yours.

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