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Course: World History Project AP® > Unit 1

Lesson 4: 1.3—State Building in the Americas
Arts and humanities
World History Project AP®
The Global Tapestry
1.3—State Building in the Americas
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ACTIVITY: SAQ Practice - Introduction (matching)

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Short-answer questions (SAQs) are an important part of the AP® World History: Modern exam. Build confidence responding to SAQ prompts in this introductory activity.
Short-answer questions (SAQs) are an important part of the AP® World History: Modern exam. Build confidence responding to SAQ prompts in this introductory activity.
Practice: Task Verbs
In this activity, you will begin to unpack what the SAQ prompts are asking on the AP exam. Specifically, you will unpack what they mean when they use the task verbs describe, identify, or explain.
Match the different "task verbs" you may encounter in an SAQ to what they're asking you to do.
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Now that you're familiar with the different task words that might appear in an SAQ, let's try matching some SAQ questions to their correct responses.
Practice: Match the prompt with the response
Match each SAQ prompt on the left with the correct response to that verb prompt on the right.
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