Professional Documents
Culture Documents
Language:
1x: Commendatory or Derogatory?
4. Inference via 1-3x: Identify rhetoric/vocabulary + explain significance (+ OK)
language or
argument Argument:
1x: Author’s stance
1-2x: Integrate arguments + explain significance
(per point)
1x: Role
6. Role 1-2x: Clues + OK (via behavior / characteristics)
(possibly advanced)
Examples: catalyst, intensifier, mediator, decelerator, commencer,
founder, …
Specific comparison:
1x: Identify points of two sources
1x: Determine if they are same + explain
8. Compare
opinions General comparison:
1x: Conclude central stances of two sources
1x: Determine if they are same + explain
CB DSE History (DBQ)
1x: Caption
1-2x: Identify / integrate clues + explain
9. Caption
Look around questions for caption clues!!
If caption has two significant elements, explain independently
4-part structure:
1-3x: Usefulness of source
Element shown by source(s)
Quote / Integrate source content
Explain with historical examples
1-4 marks: choose one; 5-8 marks: choose one but evaluate the other
(a) Simple method:
2-4x: Point (with one refutation if necessary, placed in inner sections)
Topic sentence (why A is good / why B is bad)
OK or source
Supplement with OK
18. “If you were” Special addition: “How would you respond” question
Quote and integrate source
Stance of response
Explain link with OK