Chapter 5 -8.15.08- Change-over-time Essay

Chapter 5, Cracking the Free-response Questions. This chapter is about the other two essay, Change-over-time and Comparative Essays. Change-over-time Essay. The directions say answer the following questions, you should spend 5 minutes organizing or outlining your essay, and write an essay that has a relevant thesis and supports that thesis with appropriate historical evidence, addresses all parts of the question, and uses historical context that shows change over time and/or continuities. The directions put it in a simpler text, 1. Write a thesis that shows change over time support with historical evidence, 2. Answer all parts of the question, 3. Show the change over time using relevant history, 4. Analyze the process of change and/or continuity. That breaks it down and makes it some what easier to understand at least for me. It gives you a few hints if you don't know the subject you are asked to write about. Then it has the Basic Core Rubric an the Expanded Core Rubric also a chart that simplify what you have to do for this essay. While reading the rubric I found that you can get either 2 or 1 point(s) for two different parts of the essay. Then it gives you the steps to this essay. Step 1: Process the question, tells you that you need to be clear about what you are asked to do so you should circle or underline the key word in the question. Step 2: Build the Framework, this step is a chart that you have to fill out about the question. It has four rows, Baseline, Impact, Change, Continuity. Step 3: Build your Essay, this is where after you make the framework you fill it in to build you essay. Step 4: Write It, you begin to write you essay at this stage, but your thesis is critical just like in the DBQ. After that it just gives you lines to write a thesis of your own about the sample question. And also like the DBQ it tells you how long you should spend on this essay and the Comparative together which is, about 40 minutes, 5-8 for planing and 35 for writing. And advice that you could use the practice test to see how long it takes you, which I find would come in handy.