Essays will be the death of you in any AP class! x_x First off you are gonna need to know what a DBQ is. DBQ stands for Document Based Question. Basically you have like 5-10 documents and you have to group them up in 3 groups and answer questions about them. Now there is a lot more to them than that, but you find all of that stuff later. You will also have to do CC's and CCOT's. They stand for, Compare and Contrast, and Continuity and Change Over Time. But when you are writing these always stick to the Guatemala paper!