SAQ Practice: Unit 8
OER PROJECT: WHAP/ LESSON 8.7 CLOSERSAQ PRACTICE: UNIT 8Unless otherwise noted, this work is licensed under CC BY 4.0. Credit: “SAQ Practice: Unit 8,” OER Project, https://www.oerproject.com/1PurposeIn this activity, you’ll apply many of the SAQ strategies you’ve learned. This should give you a sense of just how prepared you are to respond to SAQs on the AP® World History: Modern exam, and will let you know whether you need to revisit the practice activities or spend more time with SAQs before thetest.ProcessFor this SAQ practice activity, you’ll respond to one SAQ as if you were actually takingthe AP exam. Not only should this give you a good feel for what might happen on the actual test date, it will give you an understanding of your ability to successfully earn points for your SAQs, and let you know ifyou need to spend more time with this type of question before taking the AP exam. Before you begin writing, quickly identify the task verb in each part of the SAQ and consider what historical evidence will best support your response. Because you’re allotted 40 minutes for three SAQs on the actual exam, your teacher will likely give you about 13 minutes to respond to this practice SAQ.Once time is up, be prepared to discuss your responses with your class. As you do this, mark up and correct your own SAQ.Are thereany areas youcould improve?Take note of any mistakes you’ve made repeatedly (for example, do you often forget to fully explain the evidence you use in your responses?). Doing so will give you a good idea of what you need to work on before the actual exam.
OER PROJECT: WHAP / LESSON 8.7 CLOSERSAQ PRACTICE: UNIT 8WORKSHEET2Directions: Read the passage below, and then respond to the SAQ that follows. “Men and women of the Congo,Victorious independence fighters,I salute you in the name of the Congolese Government.I ask all of you, my friends, who tirelessly fought in our ranks, to mark this June 30, 1960, as an illustrious date that will be ever engraved in your hearts ...We shall show the world what the black man can do when working in liberty, and we shall make the Congo the pride of Africa. ...And in all this, my dear compatriots, we can rely not only on our own enormous forces and immense wealth, but also on the assistance of the numerous foreign states, whose co-operation we shall accept when it is not aimed at imposing upon us an alien policy, but is given in a spirit of friendship. ...I call on all Congolese citizens, men, women and children, to set themselves resolutely to the task of creating a national economy and ensuring our economic independence.Eternal glory to the fighters for national liberation! Long live independence and African unity!Long live the independent and sovereign Congo!”“Speech at the Ceremony of the Proclamation of the Congo’s Independence,” Patrice Lumumba, Prime Minister of the Democratic Republic of the Congo, 1960.Use the passage to answer all parts of the questionsthat follow:1.Identify ONE nation in Africa, Latin America, or Asia, other than the Democratic Republic of the Congo, that embodies the connection between decolonization and the Cold War.2.Explain ONE way in which this speech reflects the global political context of the second half of the twentieth century.3.Explain ONE way in which this speech reflects global social issues of the second half of the twentieth century.
OER PROJECT: WHAP / LESSON 8.7 CLOSERSAQ PRACTICE: UNIT 8WORKSHEET3Response: