Name: ___________________________

Date: ________________

DBQ Essay
Essential Question: Samurai and Knights: Were the Similarities Greater than the Difference?

I. Paragraph I- Introduce your topic

A. Include two supporting Ideas
B. Include a Thesis Statement:
(answer the essential question.
This is what you will prove/defend
in your essay).

II. Paragraph II- Introduce your first supportive idea with two pieces
of evidence from the documents. You must refer to the document
whose evidence you are using.
A Topic sentence
1.
2.

Evidence
Evidence

B Concluding Sentence

III. Paragraph III- Introduce your second supportive idea with two
pieces of evidence from the documents. You must refer to the
document whose evidence you are using.
A.

Topic sentence
1. Evidence
2. Evidence
B. Concluding Sentence

IV. Paragraph IV- Restate Thesis Statement

RECAP the two main supportive ideas
Overall concluding statement