Compare and Contrast Writing

 

Lessons and Assignments
Rhetorical Modes: Compare and Contrast Essays, videos.

Overview of the unit, essay assignment, and common assessment.
Read the two excerpts in the common assessment and compare some ideas about the topic of friendship to each other.

Fill out the Compare and Contrast Diagram before writing a draft.

DCA
Write the draft and finish the common assessment.

Link it to the Compare and Contrast page on your blog.
Compare-Contrast Essay Assignment (Performance Task)

Prewriting: Generate and organize ideas, choose a format.

  1. Do the Prewriting assignment.
  2. Create an account in Actively Learn.
  3. Join the class with this code: FW26M
  4. Read the articles that correspond to the essay you will write. You will be graded for your responses, so write as much as you can.
    1. For art:
      1. Read the Grant Wood article
      2. Read the Gordon Parks article
    2. For music:
      1. Read the Simon and Garfunkel article.
      2. Read the Disturbed article.
  5. Fill out the Compare and Contrast Diagram by adding points about your subjects.

Final Draft Essay

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