Getting to Know You SAQ

Directions: Remember SAQs are not essays, there is no need for a thesis statement; simply answer the prompt in COMPLETE SENTENCES!! Answering an SAQs requires you to be brief yet give enough details to answer all parts of the prompt. Bulleted lists are not acceptable. Try to be straightforward in your answer.

For an "identify" or "describe" prompt, you give a simple answer and support it with evidence.

Then "explain" or connect your evidence to the original prompt to support your claim.

General Scoring Notes: Each point is earned independently.

Accuracy: These scoring guidelines require that students demonstrate historically defensible content knowledge. Given the timed nature of the exam, responses may contain errors that do not detract from their overall quality, as long as the historical content used to advance the argument is accurate.

Clarity: Exam responses should be considered first drafts and thus may contain grammatical errors. Those errors will not be counted against a student unless they obscure the successful demonstration of the content knowledge, skills, and practices described below.

Describe: Provide the relevant characteristics of a specified topic. Description requires more than simply mentioning an isolated term.

Explain: Provide information about how or why a historical development or process occurs or how or why a relationship exists.

Identify one example of a sport that debuted in the Paris 2024 Olympics.

Describe a cultural trait on display in the Olympics.

Explain how a cultural trait displayed in the Olympics demonstrated a sense of nationalism from the late twentieth century.