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APUSH Free Response Essay Tips: Master Your Thesis and Evidence

Prepare for your APUSH quiz on Colonial Society and the French and Indian War with these essential tips for writing a Free Response Essay (FRQ). Understand what AP readers look for, including a clear thesis statement and strong support with relevant evidence. Organize your essay logically by directly answering the question. Focus on writing a compelling introduction, body paragraphs with topic sentences, specific evidence, and interpretive commentary, and a concise conclusion. Enhance your writing by integrating cause and effect.

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APUSH Free Response Essay Tips: Master Your Thesis and Evidence

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  1. Good Afternoon • Look over your Colonial Society and the French and Indian War notes for the QUIZ today

  2. APUSH How to Write a Free Response Essay (FRQ)

  3. Helpful Tips for Essay Writing • AP readers are looking for two aspects in an FRQ: • How clearly does the writer present a thesis? • How well does the writer support their thesis with relevant outside evidence from a historical period?

  4. Helpful Tips for Essay Writing • Read the question carefully and focus your discussion on directly answering the question • Use the question as a logical clue as to how the essay should be organized (categories)

  5. Helpful Tips for Essay Writing • Writing is thinking on paper. It doesn’t matter how well you say nothing, it’s still NOTHING!!! • You are writing to impress an AP reader who will have approximately 2 minutes with your essay

  6. Thesis

  7. Thesis • The thesis should have the following: • Directly answers the question (all parts) • Takes a position • Establishes organizational categories

  8. Thesis Practice

  9. Body Paragraphs

  10. Body Paragraphs • All body paragraphs should begin with a topic sentence and needs to have the following: • Directly answers the question • Takes a position • Evidence (specific factual information) • Interpretive commentary (explains how & why)

  11. Conclusion

  12. Conclusion • All essays need a conclusion • DO NOT state “In conclusion…” • DO NOT state “As one can see…” • DO NOT make it relevant to today

  13. Other Helpful Tips

  14. Other Helpful Tips • USE THE APUSH FRQ/DBQ Grading Sheet • The more you can put cause and effect into one sentence the more sophisticated your writing will be

  15. Practice Scoring the FRQ

  16. Compare the ways in which religion shaped the development of colonial society (to 1740) in TWO of the following regions: New England Chesapeake Middle Atlantic

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