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DBQ / Source Packet Builder

Assemble sources, add guiding questions per source, print one packet.

Saved packets

Each packet saves separately, so a unit with several DBQ activities stays ready without one overwriting another.

Printed as a closing page after the last source, separate from the historical context above.

Level and closing pages

Honors is the baseline packet. Academic keeps every question and adds reading support: a short word gloss on each source and a sentence starter under each question. Honors GT opens the planning page up, drops the frames, and asks for outside evidence. Use “Print all three levels” to run one set of each, footer-tagged so the piles stay sorted.

Pages print in this order: cover, sources, essay prompt, organizer, rubric.

Scoring rubric

Starter wording for a 7th grade DBQ. Every box is editable, so make it your own. It prints only when the rubric page is turned on above.

Shared guiding questions (asked for every source)

Sources

Source library

Sources you save here are kept separately from any packet, so a document you cite every year — and its citation, crop, print width and questions — is uploaded and typed once. Deleting a packet never touches the library, and removing a source from the library never touches a packet built from it.