Rogers shared with us the benefits and challenges of implementing a writingintensive curriculum across the district, how she gets buyin from her teachers, and how the dbq project has supported houston isds writing efforts. The main difference is that with dbqs often referred to as motherqs, students wrestle with more documentary evidence. The interactives each model a specific skill or set of skills, such as analyzing historical artifacts. The dbq project provides teachers with the ability to engage students in a high level criticalthinking approach and writing structure that effectively teaches history content, and more importantly, gets students to learn history. They looked to their past way back, over 2,000 years to find. Comprehending history isnt just memorizing facts and.
The dbq project works with districts and tah grants helping to improve critical thinking and evidencebased writing in history. Historical thinking skills interactives this series of interactive activities introduces and models the historical thinking skills defined by the national center for history in the schools. Miniqs in world history volumes 2 and 3 will be available late spring 2011. The indian leader asoka ashoka ruled the mauryan empire over 2,000 years ago, he helped to. Hammurabis code with parent permission or constitutiontyranny in 5th grade binder egypt and the nile. Kalinga was conquered in the ninth year of asokas reign. Montra rogers, director of social studies at houston isd, at our national conference this july. Wish list dbq supplemental asoka ruthless or enlightened. Romila thapar, asoka and the decline of the mauryas, oxford university press, 1997. I like how the college board not only tests you on your knowledge of history, but also your abilities as a history writer.
Please feel free to use them as an option when scoring your students dbq essays. Docsteach ready to use tools for teaching with primary sources in the classroom. Rogers shared with us the benefits and challenges of implementing a writingintensive curriculum across the district, how she gets buyin from her teachers, and how the dbq project has supported houston isd s writing efforts. Chandragupta reigned for twentyfour years before relinquishing his throne in favor of his son, bundusara asoka s father, who left no noticeable mark upon the empire. Asoka an indian emperor of the maurya dynasty who ruled almost all of the indian subcontinent from circa 269 bce to 232 bce intention purpose behind. Asoka was one of the greatest rulers of ancient india. The nation of india gained its independence from great britain in 1947. Now, this doesnt mean i dont know anything world history related i got a 5. Scribd is the worlds largest social reading and publishing site.
He helped to spread one of the worlds most popular religions and established reforms that still have great meaning for modernday indians. Our dbq units provide students with the opportunity to engage in the same historical thinking and writing students use in miniqs. Districts use the dbq project across grade levels to aid in teaching reading and writing in social studies. The indian leader asoka ashoka ruled the mauryan empire over 2,000 years ago. He was the grandson of chandragupta maurya of magadha who established the first indian empire. Ancient india documentbased question document packet. The purpose of a dbq is to ensure that the physician performing the exam records all the information needed to properly rate a disabled veterans conditions. Asoka mini q ev ruthless conqueror or enlightened ruler.
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