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Communities DBQ

Historic Background:
Where people live affects how they live. It affects the kind of food they eat, their homes, and their transportation. Children in the rainforest communities grew up differently than children growing up in desert communities.

Task:
For Part A, read each document carefully and answer the question or questions after each document. Then read the directions for Part B and write your essay.

For Part B, use your answers from Part A, information from the documents, and your knowledge of social studies to write a well organized essay. In the essay you should:

Describe how the communities of the rainforest and desert the same and different.

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Special thanks to: Kate Gillan, K-8 Social Studies Director at East Irondequoit CSD and all the district teachers who produced this series of DBQs and CRQs.