Name :Jhoan adames Date:

Ms. Sico Class:603

DBQ Argument Essay

Introduction The first people to live were nomads, which also

Paragraph means that they moved from a place to another.
Nomads were finding their food by hunting and
Goal: Introduce the topic that you gathering. About 8,000 B.C. humans in some
will be writing about and state your locations had early farming. Nomads
claim.
domesticated and tamed wild animals, and
*Do NOT cite any documents or learned agriculture. People grew from those
use any quotes.
settlements. Some of these societies developed in
the river valleys aka the Nile river, Indus river,
STEPS: Tigris and Euphrates river, and Huang He river. In
1. Reread the context on the my opinion geography helped the development of
very first page of the civilization because it provided fertile soil to help
2.
DBQ.
Underline 3 -4 sentences
plants grow.
that you understand.
3. Rewrite each of those
sentence in your own
words.
4. Write your claim in the
very last sentence of this
paragraph.

Claim Paragraph Geography helped because on the sides of the nile

river they used to farm and grow crops. The nile
Goal: Prove your claim! Convince river was also the most secure and people stored
the reader why you’re right by using
evidence from the documents.
their food for times of scarcity. People lived near
the nile river because it gave them more
STEPS: opportunities to live. In document 2 one detail that
1. In your first sentence,
i found was “The Nile’s annual [flooding] was
write your claim and one relatively reliable, and the floodplain and delta
2.
reason that supports it.
Decide which document
were very fertile, making Egyptian agriculture the
has information that most secure and productive in the Near East.” It
supports your reason. was fertile because the soil made the plants grow
3. Cite the document and
provide the information by
more faster. Another detail that supports my claim
using the following is “The region receives little rainfall, however, its
phrases: In document
 ___ the text states… or
In document ___ the
soil has been enriched over the years by layers of
chart/picture shows… silt-material deposited by the Tigris and
to Euphrates River.” Although Egypt receives little
4. Explain how the evidence
you just wrote supports
rainfall the river enriches the soil causing the
your claim. plants to grow healthy.
5. Write your claim again
and another reason that
supports it.
6. Repeat steps 2-4 as
many times as necessary
7. Write a concluding
sentence that sums up
what you discussed.

Counterclaim Others may argue that the river did more harm
Paragraph than good as it says in document 1 the river
Goal: Explain why someone might destroyed thousands of miles of land, and as it
have the opposite opinion of yours.
Then explain why your evidence is
says in document 3 “The…rivers not only desert the
stronger. cities on their banks, but they sometimes tear
them away.” Although this may be true, after
STEPS:
analyzing the map in document 5, people lived
1. Use a counterclaim near the river the most because it provided the
sentence starter to
introduce a counterclaim
most food, and made egypt very productive in the
2. Decide which document food area.
has information that
supports the
counterclaim.
3. Cite the document and
provide the information by
using the following
phrases: In document
___ the text states… or
In document ___ the
chart/picture shows…
to
4. Explain why this evidence
is not as strong as you
evidence.
5. Repeat steps 2-4
6. Write a concluding
sentence that sums up
what you discussed.

Conclusion In conclusion, after analyzing all the documents in

Paragraph my opinion geography helped the development of

Goal: Restate your claim and
summarize your major points.
*Do NOT cite any documents or
use any quotes.
civilization. I think this because it helped the
plants grow which made Egypt very productive
causing Egypt to be the most productive in the
Near East.

STEPS:

1. Write your claim as the

first sentence.
2. Write the major reasons
that support your claim in
the next 3 sentences.