Change and Continuity Over Time Essay

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Change and ContinuityOver Time Essay

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Change and Continuity

• Show both in essay.
• You will usually see more change than continuity.
• Examine all aspects of the civilization or group
  you are discussing.
• GRAPES

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Read the Question

• Make sure you understand what the question is
  asking.
• Are there specific aspects of the civilization or
  group you are to address? (social, political,
  economic)
• What are the time period parameters given in the
  question?

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Rubric

• Thesis that addresses issues and time period.
• Address all parts of the question.
• Back up your thesis with historical evidence.
  This is the meat of your essay.
• Show the change or continuity by discussing
  historical context. What happened in the world to
  cause the change/continuity?
• Analyze the process of continuity and change.
  Break it down into parts and explain. How do you
  get from point A to Z? Explain B-Y.

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Essay Outline

• Introduction Paragraph
• Well written thesis that address all issues
  discussed in the question and the time period
• Be specific. What are the changes? What are the
  continuities?
• Pick 3 issues/aspects to discuss if none are
  provided in the question.

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Essay Outline

• Second Paragraph
• Addresses first issue (change or continuity) from
  beginning of time period to the end of time
  period
• Topic sentence for the paragraph
• At least four other sentences in which you give
  historical evidence to back up the thesis,
  explain historical context and analyze the
  process of change.
• Will show a change or continuity

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Essay Outline

• Third Paragraph
• Addresses second issue (a change or continuity)
  from beginning of time period to the end of time
  period
• Topic Sentence
• At least four other sentences in which you give
  historical evidence to back up the thesis,
  explain historical context and analyze the
  process of change
• Will show a change or continuity

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Essay Outline

• Fourth Paragraph
• Addresses third issue (a change or continuity)
  from beginning of time period to the end of time
  period
• Topic Sentence
• At least four other sentences in which you give
  historical evidence to back up the thesis,
  explain historical context and analyze the
  process of change
• Will show a change or continuity

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Essay Outline

• Conclusion Paragraph
• Restates the thesis in a different way
• Sums up the change/continuity of the issues
  addressed
• If the body of your essay is all change, but you
  have one continuity, you can put it in the
  conclusion. (and vice versa)

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General Rules for Essays

• Never, never, never use first person!
• No I, Me, or We
• Do NOT write, In this essay. Never refer to
  your essay in your essay.
• Do NOT write, I think or In my opinion. No
  one cares about your opinion. State ideas as
  fact. You will be providing evidence to back up
  what you say.

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General Rules for Essays

• I dont grade on how many words or pages you
  write.
• I grade using the AP Rubric.

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Your Essay Question

• Analyze continuities and changes in the cultural
  and political life of ONE of the following
  societies.
• Chinese, 100 CE to 600 CE
• Roman, 100 CE to 600 CE
• Indian, 300 CE to 600 CE

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Your Essay Question

• Analyze continuities and changes along the Silk
  Roads from 200 B.C.E. to 1450 C.E.

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Lets Work It Out Together

• What are the three specified areas?
• What are the time period parameters?
• Is there change or continuity, or both?
• What can our thesis be?
• How will we set up the rest of our essay?

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Peer Grading

• Read the essay. In red grading pen, mark
  spelling and grammar errors.
• Thesis (1 point) time period parameters, state
  continuity and change, areas that will be
  discussed in essay per prompt
• All parts of question (1-2 point) continuity,
  change, areas you are discussing, time period

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• Evidence (1-2 points) historical facts to back
  up your thesis
• World historical context (1 point) What is
  going on in the world to create the
  change/continuity?
• Process of change/continuity (1 point) How do
  you get from point to the next to the next..?