Step 1 Comparison/Contrast

1. Step 1Comparison/Contrast Pre-writing Just thinking about it

2. 3 October 2013 Homework assignment-vocabulary sentences due Thursday Pick up a sheet of lined paper MLA heading at top Place the title “Comparison/Contrast Essay” on the first or second line –centered VENN diagram notes out

3. Stuff you should know • About whom and what are you writing? • From which works? • What are you comparing • What supports might be used? • What is author’s purpose-how is that supported by the characters?What is the purpose of the essay you write?

4. What is a five paragraph essay? Where’s the meat? Plot and Jot • You have seen the power point • You have read ¾ of the drama • You have seen the movie • Think about the comparison/contrast essay and write what you know and want to know about the assignment • You will have 2 minutes

5. Turn and talk How many understand a little more than before?

6. Let’s all talk How many still have questions about the essay?

7. In your notes – jot downthe Required Elements Identify the main character in each drama. Define a common trait. Illustrate the trait with a specific example from each drama. Explain how the trait affects his/her thoughts and behavior. Explain the author’s purpose in each drama, and show how the characters’ traits help develop this purpose

8. 60 Second table check • Talk about what you think you are supposed to do for this essay.

9. Quick Jot

10. Identify??? Identify the main character in eachdrama. Define a common trait. Illustrate the trait with a specific example from each drama. Explain how the trait affects his/her thoughts and behavior. Explain the author’s purpose in eachdrama, and show how the characters’ traits help develop this purpose

11. Identify these elements on VENN • Identify the main character • in eachdrama. • Just circle the names of each character

12. Identify these elements on VENN • Identify • in eachdrama. • Go to Easybib.com on the iPad and let’s get the works cited and identification thing over with NOW

13. TIME OUT! • When asked to Identify we will need to cite the sources in the form of a Works Cited page. • Let’s get that information down on paper-we can get it and forget it! (Until final drafting)

14. 5 minute search, copy, save! • GO TO : • Easybib.com • Use ISBN number from your anthology • Search for The Majestic online and get the DVD information for entry

15. Continue to Identify Let’s get back to the VENN diagram

16. Identify these elements on VENN • Define a common trait • Label - CT by the trait you think you could write about. • If you are still not certain take you best guess-you may change later

17. Quick Jot • Define a common trait • OR • Explain what that trait looks like

18. Table Talk

19. Let’s Review • Identify the main character in eachdrama. • Peter Appleton/The Majestic • John Proctor/The Crucible • Define a common trait.

20. What is left to do • Illustrate the trait with a specific example from each drama. • Explain how the trait affects his/her thoughts and behavior. • Explain the author’s purpose in each drama, and show how the characters’ traits help develop this purpose

21. Plot and Jot-3 minutes • Illustrate the trait with a specific example from each drama. • Jot down the trait you think you may use to illustrate (show). • Write one example from each drama that shows how that trait appears in each character.

22. Time to read • Turn to a partner nearby and read what you wrote aloud. • Don’t make comments-just read and/or listen • Rotate jobs

23. The directions say ILLUSTRATE • How does an author ILLUSTRATE using only words? • Look at what you wrote-how does it illustrate? • Can something be added or deleted to make the illustration clearer to the reader?

24. Go back to the writing board • Re-read what you wrote • Look over what you have written and change at least one thing to be sure it ILLUSTRATES • Next, add one new thing to sharpen the illustration Take two minutes and begin

25. Talk-a- me, talk-a-me • Let’s talk about traits

26. Now what

27. Turn and talk • Explain how the trait affects the characters’ thoughts and behavior.

28. Talk –a- me, talk-a- me Explain how the trait affects the characters’ thoughts and behavior.

29. Your time to write-take five Write for five minutes…If you get to a bog down… write about the bog-down Explain how the trait affects the characters’ thoughts and behavior.

30. Discovering Purpose! This can be challenging -sharpen your listening

31. Look at the cartoon: purpose

32. ACT Commercial Break The author's purpose is basically the reason he or she chose to act in a particular way, whether that's writing the passage, selecting a phrase, using a word, etc. It differs from the main idea in that author's purpose not the point you're supposed to get; it's the why behind the author’s picked pen or selected words in the first place. If you're trying to determine the author's purpose on a standardized test, your question may look something like this:

33. 1. The author most likely mentions the Depression in lines 33 - 34 to: A. identify the primary purpose for Social Security. B. criticize FDR's adoption of a program that would run out of money. C. contrast the effectiveness of the Social Security Program with that of family care. D. list another factor that contributed to the need for the Social Security Program.

34. Recognizing Purpose Requires More Thought Are you up to the challenge?

35. Hubble What do you need to know Since the earliest days of astronomy, since the time of Galileo, astronomers have shared a single goal — to see more, see farther, see deeper. The Hubble Space Telescope's launch in 1990 sped humanity to one of its greatest advances in that journey. Hubble is a telescope that orbits Earth. Its position above the atmosphere, which distorts and blocks the light that reaches our planet, gives it a view of the universe that typically far surpasses that of ground-based telescopes. Hubble is one of NASA's most successful and long-lasting science missions. It has beamed hundreds of thousands of images back to Earth, shedding light on many of the great mysteries of astronomy. Its gaze has helped determine the age of the universe, the identity of quasars, and the existence of dark energy.

36. What is NSA • Snowden, an ex-NSA systems analyst, is accused of leaking details about highly secretive government surveillance programs. He spent several weeks in the transit zone of a Moscow airport before being granted asylum for a year.

37. What is NSA? • What’s the problem?

38. NSA-Hubble Telescope Look at the cartoon and think to yourself, What does the cartoon mean?

39. What are the contrasts?

40. What comparisons can you make?

41. Remember this: The author's purpose is basically the reason he or she chose to act in a particular way, whether that's writing the passage, selecting a phrase, using a word, etc. It differs from the main idea in that author's purpose not the point you're supposed to get; it's the whybehind the author picking up a pen or selecting those words in the first place.

42. Think of the why?

43. Pesky Purpose questions-why 1. The author most likely portrays the Hubble to: A. identify the primary purpose for NSA (National Security Agency) B. criticize Edward Snowen as a whistle- blower C. contrast the purpose of NSA with what the agency has been doing D. list another factor that contributed to the need for the National Security Agency

44. Turn and talk/Let’s talk Why do you think readers, viewers and consumers should understand PURPOSE?

45. Now back to the dramas

46. Plot and Jot-write for 5 minutes Explain the author’s purpose in each drama, and show how the characters’ traits help develop this purpose

47. Discount Double Check Explain the author’s purpose in each drama, show how the characters’ traits help develop this purpose

48. Discount Double Check Explain the author’s purpose in each drama, show how the characters’ traits help develop this purpose

49. Turn and Discuss • Discuss the following with a person at your table • What was Arthur Miller’s purpose? • How did John Proctor develop Miller’s purpose? • What was Frank Darabont’sPurpose? • How did Peter Appleton develop Darabont’s purpose?

50. Revisit and write • Discuss the following with a person at your table • What was Arthur Miller’s purpose? • How did John Proctor develop Miller’s purpose? • What was Frank Darabont’sPurpose? • How did Peter Appleton develop Darabont’s purpose?