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Primary Source Analyzer
HIPP a real document
Work through eight public-domain primary sources with guided Historical-situation, Intended-audience, Point-of-view and Purpose prompts — DBQ practice.
Scored investigations
Playing with a simulation is not the same as earning a point. These take your own measurements from this lab into a real AP free response, graded against the rubric.
Test whether one document can establish a turning point
Unit 4 · Transoceanic Interconnections · Data analysis · 8 pts
Read industrial society through a source that wants to overturn it
Unit 5 · Revolutions · Model reasoning · 8 pts
Trace one political claim as it crosses borders and decades
Unit 5 · Revolutions · Experimental design · 8 pts
Compare two theories of what divides a society
Unit 5 · Revolutions · Model reasoning · 8 pts
Source a document the way a reader scores it
Historical thinking · Sourcing and contextualization · Experimental design · 6 pts
Trace how one document is rewritten to attack a different injustice
Historical thinking · Comparison and continuity · Model reasoning · 8 pts
Show that point of view is about interest, not merely opinion
Historical thinking · Point of view and purpose · Data analysis · 8 pts
Corroborate a claim across three documents that do not agree
Historical thinking · Corroboration and argumentation · Experimental design · 8 pts
Show that a document’s audience is a historical claim, not a guess
Unit 2 · Age of Reformation · Data analysis · 8 pts
Test a universal claim against the people it excluded
Unit 5 · Conflict, Crisis and Reaction in the Late 18th Century · Model reasoning · 9 pts
Trace one political vocabulary across two revolutions
Unit 4 · Scientific, Philosophical and Political Developments · Data analysis · 8 pts
Establish what an openly partisan source is still good evidence for
Unit 6 · Industrialization and Its Effects · Model reasoning · 8 pts
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