Writing an Essay

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Writing an Essay

Block 17 Lesson 3

Lesson Objective

Today, we will write an essay comparing and contrasting two things.

Writing a Compare-and-Contrast Essay

1st Paragraph - Similarities
2nd Paragraph- Differences

Sample Work (Similarities)

The Golden Goose and The Flashlight are folktales.

The two folktales each have a helpful character and a greedy character.

Hence, these two folktales are the same.

Sample Work (Similarities)

The Golden Goose and The Flashlight are folktales. The two folktales each have a helpful character and a greedy character. Hence, these two folktales are the same.

Sample Work (Differences)

The Golden Goose is set in a village, but The Flashlight is set in a city.

The Golden Goose's main character is an animal while The Flashlight's is an old scientist.

Therefore, these two folktales differ in setting and characters.

Sample Work (Differences)

The Golden Goose is set in a village, but The Flashlight is set in a city. The Golden Goose's main character is an animal while The Flashlight's is an old scientist. Therefore, these two folktales differ in setting and characters.

Writing a Paragraph

Topic Sentence
Supporting Details
Closing Sentence

CONJUNCTIONS

The glue that holds words, phrases and clauses (both dependent and independent) together. There are three different kinds of conjunctions -- coordinating, subordinating, and correlative -- each serving its own, distinct purpose, but all working to bring words together.

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