Utah Education Network
Uen: Argumentative Writing/wwi & Wwii Unit
In this unit, middle schoolers will gain background information on historic wars. Student will compare different media forms about these events, attend to different perspectives, research the unit's essential question, and then write an...
ReadWriteThink
Read Write Think: Examining Plot Conflict Through a Comparison/contrast Essay
Contains plans for six lessons that ask students to examine types of conflict (character vs. character, character vs. self, character vs. nature, and character vs. society) before writing essays that compare and contrast two conflicts....
Georgia Department of Education
Ga Virtual Learning: Ninth Lit and Comp: Poetry: Comparison/contrast Writing
This lesson focuses on writing an effective comparison and contrast essay. It explains and provides examples of the two methods of comparisons: point-by-point and item-by-item. It provides links to a comparison/contrast tutorial,...
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Essay Transition Words: Compare and Contrast Transition Words
This reference page focuses on compare and contrast transition words including defining transitions and compare and contrast transitions, providing a list of transition words, and showing how to use transitions in writing essays.
Minneapolis Institute of Arts
Minneapolis Institute of Arts: World Myths and Legends in Art: Compare/contrast
Students choose two works of art from twenty-six choices available. Each work has a picture followed by brief factual information. Students compare and contrast the two works based on information presented with both words and pictures....
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Drew University: Resources for Writers Comparison Writing
Sections of this site include key features of the comparison essay, comparisons in daily life, formulating a thesis, preparing to write, and organizing a comparison essay. The site also includes a paragraph of caution when writing about...
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Writing Fix
Writing Fix: Responding to Comparison/contrast: Compare/contrast Essay [Pdf]
This PDF lesson focuses on writing a comparison/contrast essay, which is a great format for helping students think deeply about two ideas or concepts with multiple similarities and differences. This type of essay has four-parts -1) an...
Writing Fix
Writing Fix: An I Pod Inspired Writing Lesson: What Skin Are You In?
Using two songs by India Arie as well as an excerpt out of Sharon Flake's The Skin I'm In, students will explore their own self image. After analyzing the qualities that each student feels that they embody, they will compare these to the...
CommonLit
Common Lit: Units: 8th Grade Argumentative Writing Unit: Improving Society
Complete teaching unit for 8th Grade Argumentative Writing Unit: "Improving Society." Students will read six texts about problems in society. Throughout the unit, 8th graders will gather information from their readings in a graphic...
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Holt, Rinehart and Winston: Professional Writer's Models: Grade 9: Compare Media Coverage
A professional model of an essay which compares the coverage of different media. Titled "Reverberations," this essay written by two journalists deals with the different news coverages of the September 11th attacks on America. Requires...
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Holt, Rinehart and Winston: Professional Writer's Models: Grade 9: Compare Play to Film
This PDF file presents a professional viewpoint on the play/film versions of "The Fantasticks" in a compare/contrast sense. Also includes questions for comprehension and understanding for students. Requires Adobe Reader. [PDF]
Alabama Learning Exchange
Alex: Is Romance Dead?
As an introduction to the medieval romances, students compare and contrast the medieval rules of courtly love to the modern "rules" of courtship and romance. Students write a compare/contrast essay after group work and class discussion.
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Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Holt, Rinehart and Winston: Elements of Literature: Grade 10: Comparing Play and Film [Pdf]
An excellent student model for tenth-graders of the comparison between a play and a film, this one for "A Streetcar Named Desire." Provides good writing style and structure, and also includes notations and helpful student aids for...
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Mo Dept. Of Ed.: Writing Essays (Expository) (Lesson)
Lesson plan designed for seventh graders. Learners write expository essays that include details, facts, and examples. Includes prewriting handouts, some example paragraphs, some example prompts, and a scoring guide.
Louisiana Department of Education
Louisiana Doe: Curriculum Hub: Ela Guidebooks: Romeo and Juliet: Prepare to Write
Ninth graders prepare to write, develop, and publish the culminating task essay. This essay will compare and contrast the way a theme is developed in the play Romeo and Juliet and one of three film versions of the play--Romeo and Juliet...
Annenberg Foundation
Annenberg Learner: Respond to Student Writing: Cell Phones
Use an interactive rubric to evaluate areas of strengths and weaknesses in a student's essay on cell phone use in schools. Then compare your responses to another teacher's.
Annenberg Foundation
Annenberg Learner: Respond to Student Writing: Skates 280
Use an interactive rubric to evaluate areas of strengths and weaknesses in a student's essay on an experience at a skating party. Then compare your responses to another teacher's.
Writing Fix
Writing Fix: The Visiting Relatives Prompt
This review discusses Ralph Fletcher's book entitled Marshfield Dreams and Cynthia Rylant's book called The Relatives Came. The author suggests that these books be used as mentor texts. In the suggested activity, students will engage in...
Department of Defense
Do Dea: Conventions
Sharpen your use of the formal conventions of English with this self-guided learning module. The module focuses on formal and informal language, making pronouns agree with their antecedents, and common spelling and grammar errors. At the...
ACT360 Media
Writing Den
The WritingDEN includes feature articles with associated words, sentences, and paragraphs to aid in the writing process. Interactive features include pronunciation guides and content quizzes. The Tips-o-matic section offers grammar...
PBS
Pbs Learning Media: Adapting Dickens: From Page to Screen
Students focus on the opening scene of the Great Expectations film to examine the process of adapting the novel by Charles Dickens for the screen. Students compare and contrast the film and the original text to consider the strengths of...
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Gallaudet University: English Works: Guide to Different Types of Essays
English Works site has suggestions on how to write an essay to convey helpful information. This site offers examples of eight different types of essays and graphic organizers.
Sophia Learning
Sophia: Compare and Contrast Papers
This lesson introduces comparison/contrast papers.
Sophia Learning
Sophia: Compare and Contrast Papers: Organization
This lesson discusses structuring an outline for a comparison contrast paper.