Capturing the Analysis Point (The Grader's Gameplan) [New 2018 APUSH Rubric]

Get a full understanding of the AP US History Document-Based Question Analysis point from the July 2017 rubric. This video will breakdown everything you need to know, including the most common mistakes students make. Chris Averill has been an AP US History grader for 24 years. Paul Faeh helped redesign the new rubric. As DBQ question leader, combined, they were in charge of grading 450,000 (approx) DBQ essays in 2017. With the analysis point, what they're trying to attempt to do or have you show on the DBQ is analyzing the documents for themselves. of view. So historical context, this can be confusing, because you have a contextualization point and now they're telling you about historical context. The intended audience would be the people that a document or perspective is hoping to influence, and so a student could present this in reference to attempting to persuade a certain group of people to do a certain thing. The point of view is probably the most difficult one for the students to accomplish, because the point of view tends to be the larger group that the perspective of the document represents and what that group's hopes are. To get the point with HIP, what you want to do when applying this and what it's talking about in the rubric and what they're telling you is how is this really relevant or significant to the content of the document. The last but not least, the point of view tends to be the hardest, because they tend not to establish the significance of that point of view. The most common mistakes we see when students are attempting to get the analysis point, they feel by just using the words from him. After they've written about the document, they'll say, "The purpose of the document is," and feel that because they said the word purpose they are now covering that point. If a student is establishing the background of a document, what caused this document, we would read that as the historical context. If this student uses phraseology like, "This is an attempt to influence," and then fill in the blank for an audience, and then explain what they're trying to do to get those people to do, then that would be the audience.