How to not be awful at the Short Answer Section - PowerPoint Presentation

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How to not be awful at the Short Answer SectionSlide2

Don’t be Shaq.

Be Ray Allen!

This is not the Basketball Game. This is not the big

Show. This is a Free throw. (Pass/Fail)So don’t be Shaq.Slide3

Don’t be Faulkner

Be Hemingway!

You are not writing long, eloquent prose.

Do NOT write an intense well-developed thesis. Points will not be deducted if you do. But you lose a lot of time developing this.Do NOT write quotes or excerpts from the passage.

Exception: (if you bring up an interesting portion of an image that may show some form of symbolism of

PoV

, this is a good idea)HOWEVER – DO write in full sentences. CB Writers take off for bullets or fragments.Slide4

BIGGEST mistakes…

IT’S SO FLUFFY

Juxtaposed to your jovial philosophy of the world, few souls on this revolving planet called earth are mesmerized into bonus points due to hyperbolic proliferation of frivolous verbiage,

“Extra words don’t get extra points” Slide5

Frivolousositosirosity

(

adj

) not having any serious purpose or value… times 100.Fill

your writing with examples, with causes and effects, and as many interpretations of the question as you can.

DO NOT fill it with 4 sentences about

your philosophy of changeDO fill it with useful examplesSlide6

Let’s look at an example

Explain ONE development between 1492-1607 that affects the lives of Native Americans

…

ATQSlide7

Which gets points?

1

.) The native

americans didn’t know this, but coming to them soon was a big change. This change came in the form of Europeans. These Europeans brought goods from all over the world which wowed the natives on so many levels. The Natives were very impressed by the Europeans and even thought of them as Gods sometimes. The Europeans loved this and thought of themselves as superior to the Native Americans.

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.) The horse is an example of change during 1491-1607. Because of the addition of the Horse the natives could travel farther, hunt more effectively, and trade with other nations more easily.

3.) Change is a big deal. If we were to ever get invaded by aliens, which is going to happen eventually, (which I’m super psyched about – I love aliens) we will need to be ready for change. Horses were an example of change for the Native Americans. Aliens brought the horse to the world, but eventually Europeans got it. The Europeans brought the horse over to the Amerindians, who’s societies shifted as they were able to travel farther, trade easier, and hunt much more effectively. I love aliens.Slide8

Assume reader knows broad.

Don’t hit broad over-arching concepts

Native

American and Europeans meet… yea. We know.Hit the details – fill in why the broad idea is thereDuring interactions they exchanged ideas, crops, and livestock, such as Christianity, tobacco, and oxen… The effects of this is …Slide9

3-levels EXPAND then EXTEND

It’s asking for a development, or an event, or an idea.

1.) list the

idea (A)2.) the immediate effect of that thing

3.) the extensive broad

effect (1.2.3.)

APPLY ALL OF THESE BACK TO THE QUESTION. ATQ.Slide10

NOW – Try it in your group

Ex: Explain one development in this period that changed Native American culture and society…

Level 1: the horse (great, an example, now expand)

Level 2: the horse made it easier to travel farther and faster (great, this might get you the point, depends on how strict they’re

grading)

Level 3: since they could travel farther and faster the Natives were able to

(1.)trade more effectively, (2.)hunt easier, and (3.)fight

with each other more effectively. These led to competition between warring tribes on the plains and

the

Southwest

between who had horses and who did not.Slide11

NOW – Try it in your group

Describe ONE development between 1607 and 1754 that led to the changes in maps that we viewed last class.

Level one –

Level two – Level three -