Stacy Stout

And then question four is where they show off their historical knowledge.

They show off what they've learnt about, you know, the 85, 86 elections or the GAA or the strike and lockout, whichever one appears.

So it's two hours, 50 minutes.

I would recommend spending about 50 minutes on the DBQ just because it takes time to, you know, read the documents, highlight parts, that kind of thing.

But again, they might need a little bit longer.

So their essays will just be a bit shorter or they might need a little bit less time.

So they need to complete three essays from either two or three essay topics, depending on the approach taken by their teacher.

So they're going to spend around 40 minutes on each essay and then I would encourage them to move on.

They are more likely to get more marks from the start of a new essay rather than trying to squeeze the last few marks out of the tail end of the previous essay.

Each essay needs to be at least six paragraphs.

I would encourage students to have an introduction, then at least six paragraphs and then their conclusion.

Just because even though the introduction and conclusion are marked like regular paragraphs, it can be quite difficult to kind of have enough content in those to kind of score highly with them.

And then even if they are tight for time, OK, just make sure they put in just one sentence of a conclusion at the end of it.

So we have our nice kind of framework to our essay.

So the marking of each essay is 60-40.

So they get 64 kind of relevant historical content.

And then the other 40 is for how they deal with the material they're discussing, how they answer the question.

Can they show an awareness of kind of, you know, other events that are going on, that kind of thing.

In general, I would encourage students to remember 4, 3, 2, 1.

So in their introduction, they need four things.