World History Document Based Question for Future High School Teachers

I mentioned using AP Document Based Questions (DBQ) for an activity to examine a book.

If you're interested, here are the websites for previous exams for World History and U.S. History:
 
World: http://apcentral.collegeboard.com/apc/members/exam/exam_information/2090.html

U.S.: http://apcentral.collegeboard.com/apc/members/exam/exam_information/2089.html

To get to the Document Based Questions, click on "Free Response Questions" for a given year and scroll down to the DBQ.  You could take several documents used in the book you're looking at and turn them into a DBQ.  If you really want to be high-speed, you could also create a "Scoring Guideline" with "Potential Outside Information" (it would not have to be as long as the one on the website--they only expect students to use a couple of those in their responses) and "Document Inferences."  Click on "Scoring Guidelines" for the year of the question you are investigating.  (Unfortunately, World History is not as cool as U.S., so they lack the outside info. list and document inferences).

I'm more familiar with the U.S. exam, but if anyone would like to ask me about DBQs, my e-mail is krhoads@dominionmail.org

By the way, teaching AP helps you stand out as a job candidate.  We just hired a teacher last year, and candidates with AP experience had a definite advantage.  If your students' scores are good, keep track of them and cite them on your resume.  Also, once you've been teaching AP for 3 years, you can apply to be an exam reader.  Not only do they pay well ($1750 for 1 week of work--but it's grading essays from 8:00 to 5:30 Sat.-Fri. w/ some time off for lunch and breaks), but it is also one of the best things you can do to become a better AP teacher.

Thanks,
Kevin