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Title: Compare and Contrast Essay


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Compare and Contrast Essay
  • Myths

2
What is the Purpose?
  • To show similarities between at least two myths
  • To show the differences between two myths
  • To inform
  • To explain
  • To analyze
  • To evaluate

3
Pre-Writing
  • Chart

Social Customs What is important to tribe Beginnings of rituals
World on the Turtles Back
Myth of your choosing
4
Venn Diagram
ALIKE
5
Writing a Thesis Statement
  • Review your data
  • Decide to what extent you will stress the
    similarities between your two myths and to what
    extent you will stress the differences.
  • C/C essay MUST discuss both similarities
    differences
  • Create a thesis statement that reflects that
    decision.

6
Weak Thesis Statements
  • Both myths are somewhat alike and somewhat
    different.
  • I can see some similarities and some differences
    too.
  • Both of them involve (only a single similarity,
    no differences).
  • Both myths share similarities differences in
    who did the creating, what was important to the
    tribe, and the sense of awe toward the universe.

7
Better Thesis Pattern
  • While both the Iroquois and the Cherokee creation
    myths celebrate animals as creators worship
    many gods, the Iroquois myth focuses more on
    family revealing what was important to their
    tribe.

8
Better Thesis Pattern
  • The Iroquois and Chinese creation myths reveal
    different rituals and social customs which leads
    to the extreme differences in their rules,
    guidelines and religions.

9
Better Thesis Pattern
  • In both The World on the Turtles Back and How
    the World Was Made, animals were responsible for
    the creation of Earth and they saw eye-to-eye
    when it came to religion, while the importance of
    family was much more emphasized in the Iroquois
    culture.

10
Paragraph Organization----Point by Point
2nd paragraph 3rd paragraph 4th paragraph
Social Customs What is important to tribe Beginnings of rituals
World on the Turtles Back
Myth of your choosing
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Outline Point by Point
  • Introduction
  • a. attention getter/hook
  • b. background information
  • c. thesis
  • Social Customs
  • a. topic sentence
  • b. WTB (1-2 sen) analysis c. your myth
    (1-2 sen) analysis
  • d. so what
  • e. transition
  • What is Important to Tribe
  • a. topic sentence
  • b. WTB (1-2 sen) analysis
  • c. your myth (1-2 sen) analysis
  • d. so what
  • e. transition

IV. Beginnings of Rituals a. topic sentence b.
WTB (1-2 sen) analysis c. your myth (1-2
sen) analysis d. so what e.
transition V. Conclusion a. emphasize major
ties b. so what? c. final thought/evaluate
importance to culture
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Transitions
  • To Compare
  • To Contrast
  • Also
  • As
  • In the same way
  • Like
  • Likewise
  • Similarly
  • Comparable
  • Equally
  • In addition
  • Although
  • Even though
  • However
  • On the other hand
  • Otherwise
  • Yet
  • Still
  • Conversely
  • As opposed to
  • Different from
  • Whereas
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