The 5 Ws Chart for the Good Habits for Evidence Examples |
What’s
on This Page:
Figuring Out All
That You Have Observed Using a Preliminary, Handwritten Chart
Focusing Your
Observations with a Briefer Chart (Handwritten or Typed)
Using the 5
Ws Chart to Mark How You Will Organize and Write
Resources
Be sure you use all of the steps in the method to read and understand fast, not just these explanations of how to use the 5 Ws chart.
You can see:
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The pages from the textbook that the student
used:
- for Grant’s “Peace Policy”
- for the Dawes Severalty Act.
· The A-level Comparison written using the 5 Ws chart below.
Figuring Out All That You Have Observed Using a Preliminary, Handwritten Chart
The few pages on the “Peace Policy” and the Dawes Act contain very detailed and useful content. If you are having trouble thinking of what you need to teach about anything, the old fourth-grade tip of using the Reporter’s 5 Ws can help. Honorable reporters are expected to cover at least these things:
§ Who?
§ What?
§ When? (for this class, not a specific date but a period of time)
§ Where?
§ Why?
§ and sometimes How?
If you are trying to compare two things you
might write draw the equivalent of this 5 Ws chart in your own handwriting as
shown below. This has every fact a student could find. A person
who jotted down this 5 Ws
chart could successfully write on many issues, not just the ones in the example
Comparison.
Notice how similar things are lined up from left to right so you can see the differences. For example, under “Who wants what w/ N.A.” you can see what Westerners wanted under the Peace Policy lined up with what they wanted with the Dawes Severalty Act.
Focusing Your Observations with a Briefer Chart (Handwritten or Typed)
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Trait |
“Peace Policy” |
Dawes Severalty Act |
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Who? |
Grant, President (p. 414) |
Dawes, Congressman Dawes Severalty Act (p. 447) |
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What? |
Westerners - to move tribes of N.A. - from whole Great Plains - to “reservations” in Dakota/ Oklahoma territories (p. 414) |
Westerners want tribes “gone” - to individual N.A.’s owning 160 acres with remainder sold to whites 50 years, lost 2/3rd land to whites (p. 447) |
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Easterner reformers - N.A. into Am. Life - Teach quote “cultural values…” & agr. - Pay N.A. - N.A. head - Ely Parker/Seneca (p. 414) |
Easterner reformers - Dawes Act offers: – quote “habits of civilized…” – citizenship but rarely (p. 447) |
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Reality to N.A. - Church officials over reservations, not military = - not “humane”/quote “undermine…” - military comes if N.A. not obey (p. 414) |
Reality to N.A. - quote “tribal structure…” (p. 447) - quote “stripping...” (p. 460) |
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When? |
1860s – Grant 1868+(p. 414) |
1880s – Dawes Act 1887(p. 447) |
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Where? |
- from whole Great Plains - to “reservations” (p. 414) |
- from tribe’s reservations - to individual’s small plots (p. 447) |
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Why? |
Policy accepted by East & West (p. 414) . |
Law accepted by East & West Quote “combined efforts…” (p.447) |
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How? |
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Using the 5 Ws Chart to Mark How You Will Organize and Write
Once you figure out your content, you can decide your paragraphs just by placing a number beside your 5 Ws chart as shown with the blue. You weave in the facts about who, when, and where as needed. FYI: severalty = ownership by individual per Merriam-Webster Online)
You can see the A-level Comparison written using the 5 Ws chart below.
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Trait |
“Peace Policy” |
Dawes Severalty Act |
Paragraphs |
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Who? |
Grant, President (p. 414) |
Dawes, Congressman Dawes Severalty Act (p. 447) |
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What? |
Westerners - to move tribes of N.A. - from whole Great Plains - to “reservations” in Dakota/ Oklahoma territories (p. 414) |
Westerners want tribes “gone” - to individual N.A.’s owning 160 acres with remainder sold to whites 50 years, lost 2/3rd land to whites (p. 447) |
2nd |
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Easterner reformers - N.A. into Am. Life - Teach quote “cultural values…” & agr. - Pay N.A. - N.A. head - Ely Parker/Seneca (p. 414) |
Easterner reformers - Dawes Act offers: – quote “habits of civilized…” – citizenship but rarely (p. 447) |
3rd |
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Reality to N.A. - Church officials over reservations, not military = - not “humane”/quote “undermine…” - military comes if N.A. not obey (p. 414) |
Reality to N.A. - quote “tribal structure…” (p. 447) - quote “stripping...” (p. 460) |
4th |
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When? |
1860s – Grant 1868+(p. 414) |
1880s – Dawes Act 1887(p. 447) |
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Where? |
- from whole Great Plains - to “reservations” (p. 414) |
- from tribe’s reservations - to individual’s small plots (p. 447) |
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Why? |
Policy accepted by East & West (p. 414) . |
Law accepted by East & West Quote “combined efforts…” (p.447) |
1st & 4th |
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How? |
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Copyright C. J. Bibus, Ed.D. 2003-2015 |
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2015 |
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