From Republic to Empire DBQ

What's included

• Student DBQ packet: hook, background reading, Documents A–F with analysis questions, evidence organizer, bucketing and outline pages, C-E-R essay and 4-point rubric
• Scaffolded version with shorter excerpts, plain-words versions and sentence starters
• Teacher presentation with speaker notes, plus a teacher guide with standards, pacing, answer key and a sample essay

The documents

• Document A: Polybius warns about success
• Document B: Tiberius Gracchus: homeless soldiers
• Document C: Caesar's excessive honors
• Document D: Augustus tells his story (Res Gestae)
• Document E: Tacitus sees through it
• Document F: A century of violence (timeline)

Document A: Polybius, Histories, trans. W. R. Paton (Loeb, 1923), public domain. Document B: Plutarch, Life of Tiberius Gracchus, trans. Bernadotte Perrin (Loeb, 1921), public domain. Document C: Suetonius, Life of Julius Caesar, trans. J. C. Rolfe (Loeb, 1914), public domain. Document D: Res Gestae Divi Augusti, trans. Frederick W. Shipley (Loeb, 1924), public domain. Document E: Tacitus, Annals, trans. John Jackson (Loeb, 1931), public domain. Document F: teacher-made timeline.

Good to know

Class time

3 class periods

Format

Editable Google Slides

Answer key

Included

Standards: KAS Grade 6: 6.H.CH.1, 6.C.CP.3, 6.H.CO.1, 6.I.UE.1, 6.I.UE.2, 6.I.CC.1