AP 23.570 DBQ/LEQ – Heimler: How to Understand the Prompts

Ever since the College Board changed its wording for their DBQ and LEQ prompts to “Evaluate the extent to which…” students have been confused about how to understand them.

At the end of the day, the “Evaluate the extent to which” language is there to force you into an argument. It’s asking you to weigh different pieces of evidence and then write a nuanced, complex, and historically defensible DBQ or LEQ.

 


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