How to Write the Continuity and Change Over Time Essay

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How to Write the Continuity and Change Over Time
Essay

• (CCOT)

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Objectives

• Terminal Learning Objective (TLO) I expect you
  to be able to write an acceptable continuity and
  change essay.
• Enabling Learning Objective (ELO) 1 The first
  step is to be able to differentiate APWH themes.

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CONTINUITY AND CHANGE OVER TIME

• The CCOT essay tests your ability to trace a
  broad trend or development over a long period of
  time

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PERSIA

• P POLITICAL who is in charge?
• E ECONOMIC how do they make a living?
• R RELIGION what do they believe?
• S SOCIAL how are they divided or relate to
  one another?
• I INTELLECTUAL how do they express
  themselves? How do they learn? What are
  there technological advancements?
• A AREA/GEOGRAPHY How does where they live
  impact how they live?

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Political

• Structure
• War
• Treaties
• Courts/Laws
• Leaders
• Popular participation
• Loyalty to leader

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Economic

• State control on trade/industry
• Agriculture/Industry importance
• Labor systems
• Levels of Technology
• Levels of International Trade
• Gender and Slaves
• Money System

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Religion

• Importance on societal interaction
• Holy Books
• Beliefs/Teachings
• Conversion role of missionaries
• Sin/Salvation
• Deities

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Social

• Family order patriarchal, matriarchal
• Gender Relations role of women, children
• Social Classes slavery
• Entertainment
• Life Styles

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Intellectual/Arts

• Art and Music
• Writing/Literature
• Philosophy
• Math/Science
• Education
• Inventions

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Area/Geography

• Location
• Physical
• Movement
• Human/Environment

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CONTINUITY AND CHANGE OVER TIME
Topics may include

• cultural interchange
• global trade
• the movement and migration of peoples
• the role of minorities in a given society
• the status of women

• environmental issues
• biological developments
• changes in technology
• artistic and cultural attitudes
• scientific innovations

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THOUGHTS TO CONSIDER BEFORE WRITING

• What were things like at the beginning of the
  assigned period?
• What changed?
• How and why did it change?
• What were things like at the end of the assigned
  period?
• What differences did those changes make?
• What remained the same?

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Objectives

• TLO I expect you to be able to write an
  acceptable continuity and change essay.
• ELO 2 The second step is to identify relevant
  continuities/change and understand the processes
  of continuity/change.

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The Complexity of Change and Continuity

• Imagine a simple timeline that represents your
  own life. If you were to note the 8-10 most
  important events/changes on your timeline, along
  with continuities, what might that look like?
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• Analyze the changes and continuities in your
  life between 1997 and the present

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Types of Change
Type of Change Example
Clear, definite date of beginning and end Bed wetting Basketball team
Clear, definite beginning date, but no ending date. Parents divorced (never got back together)
Clear beginning date, but significant developmental changes since that beginning. This event still exists, but is significantly different now compared to when it first started. Walking, talking, school
Vague, slow, gradual process with no clear beginning or ending date Love of baseball
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Types of Change
Type of Change Example
Clear, definite date of beginning and end
Clear, definite beginning date, but no ending date.
Clear beginning date, but significant developmental changes since that beginning. This event still exists, but is significantly different now compared to when it first started.
Vague, slow, gradual process with no clear beginning or ending date
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Objectives

• TLO I expect you to be able to write an
  acceptable continuity and change essay.
• ELO 3 The third step is to understand
  Periodization

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Periodization

• Historical thinking involves the ability to
  describe, analyze, evaluate, and construct models
  of historical periodization that historians use
  to categorize events into discrete blocks and to
  identify turning points.

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Periodization

• Our prompt Analyze the changes and continuities
  in your life between 1997 and the present

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Periodization

• Periodization helps to organize different groups
  in different places during a specific time
  period.
• Changes do not happen in a vacuum. Something,
  somewhere, had an influence on the change.

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Objectives

• TLO I expect you to be able to write an
  acceptable continuity and change essay.
• ELO 4 The fourth step is to understand the
  ability to construct a valid thesis for the APWH
  essays. In this case, it is the CCOT

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Thesis Writing

• Analyze the changes and continuities in your life
  between 1997 and the present
• Address what the question is asking.

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Thesis Writing

• Analyze the changes and continuities in your
  life between 1997 and the present
• Minimal
• Between 1997 and 2013 my life has been impacted
  by many changes but many aspects have been the
  same.

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Thesis Writing

• Analyze the changes and continuities in your
  life between 1997 and the present
• Recommended
• Between 1997 and 2013 my life has changed because
  of the USMC, marriage, and the birth of my
  children but has stayed the same in regards to my
  faith and my love of baseball.

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Thesis Writing

• So, the basic template is
• Between __(beginning date)____ and __(ending
  date)______, ___(area you chose to write
  about___) changed in the area of
  ____(category(ies) from the prompt)___ but stayed
  the same in the area of __(the other
  category(ies) from the prompt).

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Objectives

• TLO I expect you to be able to construct an
  acceptable continuity and change essay.
• ELO 5 The final step before actually writing is
  to understand how to analyze the reasons for the
  change/continuity.

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Analysis

• Good writing would require you to analyze the
  reasons for the continuities and changes
• What caused each continuity or change?
• Why were some changes sudden, while others were
  gradual?
• Comparison to the larger Global Context (how does
  it fit with what was/is going on other places in
  the world?)

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Characteristics at the Beginning of the Time Period Examples of Significant Changes, Turning Points, or Developments Note type of change (sudden, gradual, developmental) Characteristics at the end of Time Period
Single Carpenter Responsible only to self Interactions with adults Regular cab pickup Undisciplined Attended Sunday service Limited education (BS) Played softball Volunteer coach 1. Involvement with the USMC (sudden) 2. Marriage/birth of children (developmental) 3. Career (developmental, gradual)-standard of living Significant Continuities 1. Religious affiliation (gradual) 2. Love of baseball (gradual) 3. Married Teacher Coach Responsible for others 4 door vehicles Time management Discipline Attend Sunday Service Coach sons baseball Lay reader at church
Reasons Why Changes Continuities Occured 1. Operation Enduring/Iraqi Freedom son was born while away, career was put on hold, changed perspective on relationships 2. To coach is to teach sense of service as result of faith, positive interactions with adolescents as a volunteer and varsity baseball basketball coach at Tinora and Fayette 3. Faith helped me through many of the hard times 1. Operation Enduring/Iraqi Freedom son was born while away, career was put on hold, changed perspective on relationships 2. To coach is to teach sense of service as result of faith, positive interactions with adolescents as a volunteer and varsity baseball basketball coach at Tinora and Fayette 3. Faith helped me through many of the hard times
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Characteristics at the Beginning of the Time Period Examples of Significant Changes, Turning Points, or Developments Note type of change (sudden, gradual, developmental) Characteristics at the end of Time Period
1. 2. 3. Significant Continuities 1. 2. 3.
Reasons Why Changes Continuities Occured 1. 2. 3. 1. 2. 3.
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PRACTICE!
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CCOT

• Analyze the changes and continuity in American
  music between 1950 and today.
• What is the question asking you to do? (Restate
  the verb in your own words.)
• What is the object of the verb?
• what?
• when?
• where?

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CONTINUITY AND CHANGE OVER TIMEGeneral Tips

• Students should take 40 minutes to complete the
  CCOT essay
• Students should spend 5 of the 40 minutes reading
  the question, reflecting on the question, and
  organizing thoughts concerning the essay
• The CCOT will request that students analyze the
  evolution (progression/development) of a trend or
  phenomenon over a long period of time
• Students will be asked to focus on a particular
  nation or geographical region and may be given a
  choice regarding which nation or region must be
  included in the essay

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• students must concentrate on showing what changed
  and how it changed as well as what remained the
  same.