Title: Compare and Contrast Essay
1Compare and Contrast Essay
2What 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
3Pre-Writing
Social Customs What is important to tribe Beginnings of rituals
World on the Turtles Back
Myth of your choosing
4Venn Diagram
ALIKE
5Writing 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.
6Weak 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.
7Better 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.
8Better 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.
9Better 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.
10Paragraph 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
11Outline 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
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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
12Transitions
- 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