HS113 (Ancient and Non-Western World History)
Midterm Review Guide 2024-2025
Use this sheet as a guide to help you prepare for exams. If you have taken good notes and created good charts/organizers or flashcards, you are off to a great start. Remember to also consider class activities, handouts, readings, and notes as well as textbook material. It is important to plan out your study time- create a plan and stick to it. A little each day is always better than cramming the night before! If there are any questions, please feel free to email me to clear up any sort of confusion!
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History Department Collaboration Policy – Test Preparation
Many students will form study groups to aid in test preparation. The History Department supports such efforts to the extent that they are truly collaborative. The History Department does not consider “dividing up the work” to be collaborative. The Honor Code requires students to pledge that they neither gave nor received aid. Taking another’s work unquestioningly constitutes unauthorized aid. Emailing or otherwise disseminating your work with the knowledge that others will adopt it as their own constitutes unauthorized aid. The department supports collaborative test preparation, which it defines as students working together using completed review materials in the creation of which all students in question participated.
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Multiple Choice and Matching Section: Study the following key terms to prepare for the multiple choice section. Some of these key terms are bigger than others (e.g., Buddhism–Big; Fossils–Small), so make sure you devote appropriate time and study to each term as it demands.
Block 2 Magic School Study Room
Block 3 Magic School Study Room
Block 4 Magic School Study Room
Unit 5 – China
Unit 6 – Greece/Macedonia
Unit 7 – Rome and Christianity
Unit 8 – Islam
Research Information
Annotations
Source Types:
-Primary
-Secondary
-Tertiary
Source Locations
-Database
-Website
-Book
-etc.
MLA Citations
-Works Cited
-Parenthetical Citations
Reading Evidence:
-Sourcing
Reading Evidence:
-Contextualization
Reading Evidence:
-Corroboration
Reading Evidence:
-Close Reading
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The Document Based Questions (DBQs)
You will have two sections of three documents each where you will answer questions and write a critical-thinking paragraph where you will draw evidence from the documents. Below is a preview of the questions you will see under each set of documents. Document sets can come from any of our units of study during semester 2. Additionally, you will have the academic source selection chart on your test to help you determine source type. A rubric for the paragraphs has been provided below.
Document 1:
1. What type of source is this? Circle ONE:
Reference/Tertiary Secondary Primary
2. Who is the author and what is the title?
3. How would you parenthetically cite this?
4. If you want to prove…… provide a quote that could support this argument:
5. Explain WHY your quote proves the argument.
MAKE SURE TO REVIEW THE GUIDE TO SOURCE SELECTION
Rubric for Paragraphs
89-100 (23-25)- Excellent
This paragraph does the following:
* Answers the question with a clear argumentative topic sentence
* Includes at least three developed examples that support the argument (remember, an example is all necessary context and the detailed evidence)
* Uses textual evidence (quoted or paraphrased) as support
* Includes information that is factual and accurate
* Concludes with a clear conclusion statement
* Analysis that not only explains each example but also demonstrates how the example proves the argument presented in the topic sentence
77-89 (20-22)- Good/Very Good
This paragraph does the following:
* Includes all of the above items but may weak in one or two areas listed above.
* Includes at least three examples that support the topic sentence
* Includes information that is factual and accurate
65-76 (17-19)- Average
This paragraph does the following:
* Includes some of the elements of a perfect paragraph and is missing 1-2 elements of an excellent paragraph and/or is weak in several elements
* Includes information that is factual and accurate
60-64 (15, 16)- Below Average
This paragraph does the following:
* Includes few of the elements of an excellent paragraph and is factually inaccurate or the question was not answered correctly
50, 55 (12, 13)- Unacceptable
This paragraph is missing most of the elements of the perfect paragraph and:
* May be incomplete because the student did not finish
* Answers the question with false information and/or lacks any textual evidence as support
***THIS DOCUMENT CAN CHANGE UP UNTIL A WEEK BEFORE THE MIDTERM***