6th Grade Latin America DBQ

(Document Based Question)

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DBQ Question:
Analyze the validity of this statement: Brazils economy is more developed than Cubas.
(Include 3 documents in your response.

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6th Grade: Second Nine Weeks
Latin America - Document Based Question
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 Document A: Brazil

1. What details do you see in the

picture? (pick at least 3)

2. What do the details say about the

economy of Brazil?

3. How does this image illustrate how

developed Brazil is?

Document B: Brazils Infant

Mortality, 1950-1997.
Document C: Gross Domestic Product (GDP) for selected countries.
1. What is the trend in Brazils
Infant Mortality?

2. What are some possible

explanations for this trend?

3. How does this document

describe the economic level
of Brazil?
1. Where does Brazil rank compared to other large countries with the potential
for 5-7% growth?
2. When compared to China, Brazil has a higher or lower GDP per capita?
3. How does this document help you determine the development level of Brazil?

Document D: GDP structure

in Cuba for 2008 in percent

1. What economic activity

contributes to a majority of
Cubas economy?

2. Electricity, Gas and Water

make up the least amount of
Cubas GDP, what argument
does this fact support
regarding the development of
Cuba?

3. How can this pie graph be

used to determine the level of
development of Cuba?
 Document E:
Comparing
Health biotechnology in Brazil and Cuba, 1991-2002

1. Which country shown has completed more research in biotechnology?

2. How many more papers did Brazil produce than Cuba from 2000-2002?
3. How does this chart help determine the economic level of the two
countries?

Document F: Cuba

1. What details do you see

in this picture? (List at
least 3)

2. What do the details say

about the economy of
Cuba?

3. How does this image

help you to determine
the economic
development of Cuba?
Document G:

1. What has happened to

Cubas Illiteracy Rate
since 1958?

2. How does Cuba

compare to other Latin
American countries as
a whole in Infant
Mortality?

3. How do these charts

help you determine the
economic development
level of Cuba?

Document H: Cubas
GDP, 1986-2008

1. What happened to
Cubas after the Soviet
support ended in 1989?

2. What is Cubas current

economic trend?

3. How does this chart

illustrate the economic
development level of
Cuba?
Bucketing Getting Ready to Write

Bucketing

Look over all the documents and organize them into buckets. Write labels under each
bucket and place the letters of the documents in the buckets where they belong. It is O.K.
to put a document in more than one bucket. That is called multi-bucketing, but you need a
good reason for doing so.

Thesis Development and Road Map

On the chicken foot below, write your thesis and your road map. Your thesis is always an
opinion and answers the main question. The road map is created from your bucket labels
and lists the topic areas you will examine in order to prove your thesis.
Essay Outline Guide

Working Title

Paragraph #1
Grabber

Background

Stating the question with key terms defined

Thesis and road map

Paragraph #2
Baby Thesis for bucket one

Evidence: Supporting details from documents with document citation

Argument: connecting evidence to the thesis

Paragraph #3
Baby Thesis for bucket two

Evidence:
Argument:

Paragraph #4
Baby Thesis for bucket three

Evidence:

Argument:

Paragraph #5
Conclusion: Restatement of main idea along with possible insight.