Warm-Up Look at the images projected on the white board. Select two images On a sheet of paper, draw a T-Chart or Venn diagram, and list the similarities and differences of the two images you selected.

Compare-Contrast Assignment What did you come up with?

Purpose: As you generate points of comparison: ◦1. Consider the purpose and content of the assignment and the focus of the class. Purpose of Assignment: To Compare & Contrast Content of Assignment: The concepts of “Witch-Hunts”, “Mob-Mentality”, and/or Public Humiliation as a form of punishment, in relation to analyses of The Scarlet Letter and “The Crucible”

Purpose: ◦2. What do you think the professor wants you to learn by doing this comparison/contrast? That the concepts that were relevant to Hawthorne and Miller, are still relevant today. It is YOUR job to prove how they are still relevant by showing textual evidence and by introducing current and applicable researched information that supports your comparison.

Strategies: 1. Be sure your subjects are at least somewhat alike. 2. Stay FOCUSED on your purpose throughout your essay. 3. Formulate a STRONG thesis STATEMENT… ◦Name the subjects being compared & contrasted ◦Indicate whether the essay focuses on the subjects’ similarities, differences or both ◦State the essay’s main point(s) of comparison

Strategies: 4. Select the main points to be discussed and 5. organize them in a graphic organizer or outline. 6. Supply the reader with clear TRANSITIONS.

Transitions Whichever organization pattern you choose, make sure you use clear “signal” devices that help your reader TRANSITION between topics. To CompareTo Contrast AlsoAlthough As well asHowever BothEven though In the same mannerIn contrast In the same wayNevertheless LikewiseContrary SimilarlyOn the other hand

Your Assignment Write a 2-3 page essay MLA formatted that compares and/or contrasts and that includes cited information from one or more of the texts we have covered in class, as well as cited information from a current/modern source. and that is written as an academic essay.

Students must accurately use at least FIVE (5) of their Real World vocabulary words in the essay. Students will be randomly assigned a peer evaluation partner. The two students in each partner group will be responsible for the editing of their peer's paper in a prompt and thorough manner. 1.Students will supply a TYPED rough draft of their compare-contrast paper by October 26th, at the beginning of class. Papers not turned in by this date will warrant a zero for this grade, even if the student is absent! If you are absent – your essay to me by the time your class period begins so that I can have it edited for you in your absence. 2.Peer evaluators will complete their evaluation/revision comments on/to their partner's rough draft during the class period that the rough draft is due (Oct 26th). 3.Students will submit a final draft of their paper to the instructor via Turnitin.com, AND in hard copy format by the beginning of the class period on October 29th. NO FINAL DRAFT PAPERS WILL BE ACCEPTED LATER THAN THE POSTED CUT-OFF TIME!

Step 1: Prewrite: In your journal/on your paper brainstorm similarities and differences of the two literature selections (that you know so far). Once you have brainstormed your ideas… Determine your purpose… - Is one thing better than another? - Are things that seem different actually alike? - Are things that seem alike actually different?

You have identified your thesis! You have identified your thesis! (even though it is a PRELIMINARY idea that will be changed to THIRD person!) …& then write it down. I am comparing “The Crucible” to The Scarlet Letter to show how mob-mentality can cause more damage to society than the “evils” it was initially trying to eradicate.

Now Find Evidence Purpose of Mob Mentality in Scarlet Letter To control a fledgling society To make an “example” of sinners Damage caused by mob-mentality in SL Relationships are broken Good man dies Purpose of Mob- Mentality in “The Crucible” Damage caused by mob-mentality in “The Crucible” MANY people killed Relationships are broken To answer “unanswerable” questions To gain “wants”

Now Organize the Evidence Options: ◦Whole-to-Whole, or “One-Side- at-a-Time”  Discuss every point for topic A  Discuss every point for topic B ◦Point-by-Point  Discuss point 1 for both subjects  Discuss point 2 for both subjects

Example: Start with your thesis: “The Crucible”, by Arthur Miller, and The Scarlet Letter, by Nathaniel Hawthorne, show how mob-mentality can cause more damage to society than the “evils” it was initially trying to eradicate. And build the body of the paper from there. es/interactives/compcontrast/map.html

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