Southwest Asia
Name: Patrick Smith Period: 6th Date: 1/ 29/ 13 CHANGE AND CONTINUITY ESSAY PACKET
UNDERSTANDING WORDS
This essay asks students to access how larger global issues and themes such as gender, trade, technology, and environment have changed and remained the same. If any one essay will give students difficulties, it is likely that this essay will. Students will not only have to identify areas of change, but also areas of continuity across chronological periods, and will have to compare two or more chronological periods within one geographic area. Students will all have the same prompt but will be able to choose between different geographic regions to answer the question.
Before students plan and write essays, they must understand the tasks that the prompts ask them to perform. This begins with understanding the words that prompts use.
PART A
Using a dictionary, define these words. Include any close synonyms.
1. CHANGE
To transform or convert
2. CONTINUITY A continuous or connected whole
PART B
Answer the questions and be prepared to discuss your answers.
1. If a prompt asks a student to address change, what should you do?
Address all of the change, not just some of it. Look more at the bigger picture rather than just one little thing that changed.
2. If a prompt asks a student to address continuity, what should you do?
Again, look at the big picture. What all stayed continuous? Address the important stuff.
3. Predict what will happen on the grade of the essay if a student addresses only changes but not continuities when asked to do both?
The grade will go down. They didn’t address the whole prompt, which calls for a low grade.
Name: ___________________________________ Period: __________ Date: _____________
PARTS OF A PROMPT
All essays begin with a prompt. The prompt will specify the actions a student is required to perform. It will also specify a
UNDERSTANDING WORDS
This essay asks students to access how larger global issues and themes such as gender, trade, technology, and environment have changed and remained the same. If any one essay will give students difficulties, it is likely that this essay will. Students will not only have to identify areas of change, but also areas of continuity across chronological periods, and will have to compare two or more chronological periods within one geographic area. Students will all have the same prompt but will be able to choose between different geographic regions to answer the question.
Before students plan and write essays, they must understand the tasks that the prompts ask them to perform. This begins with understanding the words that prompts use.
PART A
Using a dictionary, define these words. Include any close synonyms.
1. CHANGE
To transform or convert
2. CONTINUITY A continuous or connected whole
PART B
Answer the questions and be prepared to discuss your answers.
1. If a prompt asks a student to address change, what should you do?
Address all of the change, not just some of it. Look more at the bigger picture rather than just one little thing that changed.
2. If a prompt asks a student to address continuity, what should you do?
Again, look at the big picture. What all stayed continuous? Address the important stuff.
3. Predict what will happen on the grade of the essay if a student addresses only changes but not continuities when asked to do both?
The grade will go down. They didn’t address the whole prompt, which calls for a low grade.
Name: ___________________________________ Period: __________ Date: _____________
PARTS OF A PROMPT
All essays begin with a prompt. The prompt will specify the actions a student is required to perform. It will also specify a