UNITED STATES HISTORY:
The Roaring Twenties

Question: The 1920’s produced significant change in America. Identify several changes and if these changes had a positive or negative impact on the United States. Use the documents to support your response.

Background: The 1920s, a prosperous and optimistic time period, is known by a few names, such as the Roaring Twenties, the Jazz Age, the Age of Wonderful Nonsense, and the Age of Intolerance. It was a boisterous period characterized by rapidly changing lifestyles, financial excesses, and the fast pace of technological progress. It's also seen as a period

of great advance as the nation became urban and commercial. This era embodied the beginning of modern America and would be a time of change for everyone.

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Scoring Guide: DBQ

Score and Description

6 Excellent

·  Insightfully addresses all parts of the prompt

·  Takes a clear position and develops it consistently with well-chosen reasons and/or examples across the response

·  Well organized with strong transitions.

·  Sustains variety in sentence structure and exhibits good word choice.

·  Errors in grammar, spelling, and punctuation are few and do not interfere with understanding

5 Skillful

·  Fully addresses all parts of the prompt

·  Takes a clear position and develops it with reasons and/or examples in parts of the response.

·  Clearly organized, but may lack some transitions and/or have occasional lapses in continuity.

·  Exhibits some variety in sentence structure and some good word choices.

·  Errors in grammar, spelling, and punctuation do not interfere with understanding.

4 Sufficient

·  Addresses all parts of the prompt

·  Takes a clear position and supports it with some reasons and/or examples.

·  Organized with ideas that are generally related, but has few or no transitions.

·  Exhibits control over sentence boundaries and sentence structure, but sentences and word choice may be simple and unvaried.

·  Errors in grammar, spelling, and punctuation do not interfere with understanding.

3 Uneven

May be characterized by one or more of the following:

·  May fail to address some parts of the prompt.

·  Takes a position and offers support, but may be unclear, repetitive, list-like, or undeveloped.

·  Unevenly organized; the response may be disjointed.

·  Exhibits uneven control over sentence boundaries and sentence structure; may have some inaccurate word choices.

·  Errors in grammar, spelling, and punctuation sometimes interfere with understanding

2 Insufficient

May be characterized by one or more of the following:

·  Fails to address some parts of the prompt.

·  Attempts to take a position (addresses topic) but is incoherent OR takes a position but provides no support; may only paraphrase the prompt.

·  Very disorganized; thoughts are tenuously connected OR the response is too brief to detect organization.

·  Minimal control over sentence boundaries and sentence structure; word choice may often be inaccurate.

·  Errors in grammar or usage (such as missing words or incorrect word use or word order), spelling, and punctuation interfere with understanding in much of the response.

1 Unsatisfactory

May be characterized by one or more of the following:

·  Attempts to respond to prompt, but provides little or no coherent information; may only paraphrase the prompt.

·  Has no apparent organization OR consists of a single statement.

·  Minimal or no control over sentence boundaries and sentence structure; word choice may be inaccurate in much or all of the response.

·  A multiplicity of errors in grammar or usage (such as missing words or incorrect word use or word order), spelling and punctuation severely impedes understanding across the response.

0

May be characterized by one or more of the following:

·  No Original Work- plagiarized from another student or an online source

·  Blank

·  Completely illegible

·  Deliberately off-topic