From Ms. Sellers:

As a Social Studies department, we are striving toward increasing our students’ critical thinking and writing skills. As educators, we often times hear that the two skills college freshmen are lacking the most are critical thinking and writing. It is our mission to equip and prepare our students with these essential skills through rigorous academic instruction. By doing so, we understand that we help place our students on an advanced-placement trajectory. Furthermore, by strengthening these two critical skills through engaging and rigorous academic tutelage, our students are afforded the opportunity to attend some of the nation’s best public and private high schools. Our department has determined that the most effective way to build and strengthen these skills is through document-based questions or DBQs.

With this in mind, I am asking for your support in equipping our department and students with essential and necessary resources for DBQs. The DBQ Project (www.dbqproject.com) has created and complied resource binders of DBQs. These binders will allow our students continuous practice with high-level critical thinking activities. The Texas History Mini-Qs binder is $275, the American History binder is $325, and the World History binder is also $325. I realize these resources are expensive but they benefit hundreds of students for years to come.

Attached are the order forms for the resource Texas and American/World History binders. Thank you in advance for all of your support. You organization makes it possible for us to provide our students with the best! After all, they deserve it!