DBQ Camp!

I am live blogging this morning's DBQ camp, where six happy campers are digging into the 2000 DBQ on rituals and festivals.  A few documents, including the Brueghel painting below, discuss Shrove Tuesday (aka Fat Tuesday), the last day of Carnival (aka Mardi Gras) before lent which was a time of austerity.  Lots of merrymaking.  Brueghel, as a painter, however, may be exaggerating the level of mayhem in order to make his painting more interesting.

Pieter Brueghel the Elder, Battle Between Carnival and Lent, 1559

See what I did there?  Sourcing analysis!  That's what the scholars in 109 are doing, too.  I have this and other practice DBQs.  I recommend doing one or two, or at least outlining, before the test.  Remember the blue sheet? Give it a look when you practice.