Chapter 5: Cracking the Free-Response Question

Okay, last chapter before history! The change-over-time essay expects you to be able to discuss the concept of change and continuities that accompany these changes. You MUST include continuities as well as changes over time in this essay to maximize your scoring potential. Write an essay with a thesis that identifies change over time, support that thesis with relevant history, and contrast that change. The chapter then showed a basic rubric, what to do chart, and expanded core rubric for the change-over-time essay.

1. Process the question
2. Build a framework
3. Build your essay
4. Write it

Major themes tested on the Comparative essay:

• How different societies responded to events, to each other, or to other societies
• How different societies changed or didn't in response to an event
• How different societies developed
• How different societies responded to new technolgies or new ideas

Write an essay with a thesis, support the thesis with relevant history, compare and contrast. Then the chpater showed a basic rubric, what to do chart, and expanded rubric for the comparative essay. Ther were sample frame works and places for you to try. At the end there were two sample questions for you to try then that was the end for part 1. Now for the history section of the book.