ETC.
What does it mean to compare?
To tell what is similar about two or more things.
You should begin your Introduction Paragraph by sharing this about your athlete of choice.
Background Knowledge
What are similarities?
Things that are alike.
What are differences?
Things that are different.
What are factors?
Things
You should answer these 2 questions when giving Background Knowledge about your athlete of choice.
Who is your athlete?
Why are they important to society?
Factors
Your Compare and Contrast Essay should be written in the (blank) person.
Third person
What does contribute mean?
To provide or give
This sentence is the last sentence of your Introduction Paragraph. What is this sentence called?
Your Bridge Sentence
True or False. You should begin your Similarities Paragraph by stating evidence of how your athlete and Jackie Robinson are similar.
False. You should begin your Similarities Paragraph by introducing the topic of similarities to the reader, making a claim of how your athlete and Jackie Robinson are similar, and then providing evidence to support your claim.
True or False. You should provide evidence for both your athlete of choice and Jackie Robinson when explaining differences in your Differences Paragraph.
True. Each claim of how your athlete and Jackie Robinson is different should be supported with evidence.
Provide 2 correlative conjunctions.
Both, and, not only, but also, either, or, neither, nor, whether, or
In the Introduction Paragraph of your Compare and Contrast Essay, you should give background knowledge of your athlete of choice and Jackie Robinson.
False. You should only give background knowledge of your athlete of choice in the Introduction Paragraph.
True or False. Summing up similarities between your athlete and Jackie Robinson should be the last sentence in your Similarities Paragraph.
True.
Something that supports your claim.
Explain what correlative conjunctions are and their function.
Correlative conjunctions are words that are used to connect or link words, phrases, and sentences.
You should also include any major (blank) that your athlete has accomplished in your Introduction Paragraph.
Achievements
List 2 things you should include in the Conclusion Paragraph of your Compare and Contrast essay.
Sum up the similarities and differences of your athlete and Jackie Robinson
Explain what these similarities and differences teach us (this is the only time you may write in the second person)
When explaining why your athlete is important in your Introduction Paragraph, you should explain why your athlete is important to (blank).
Society.