Writing and Rhetoric Book 8: Comparison – Teacher’s Edition

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Sample

A one-semester course for grades 6 or 7 and up

Comparison

In Writing & Rhetoric Book 8: Comparison, students will be writing well-crafted, six-paragraph expository essays comparing two subjects. Comparisons can be made between people, historical events, ideas, inventions, animals, foods—just about anything, really. The purpose of these essays is to analyze two subjects and use this comparison to demonstrate similarities and differences between them. In these essays, students will be making use of a range of writing skills, including the ability to inform, to describe, to narrate, and to analyze.

In this one-semester book, students will learn to:

• Compare subjects of American history from the Gilded Age to the Great Depression of the 1930s
• Use topic sentences for organizing paragraphs and information
• Create analogies for powerful appeals to emotion
• Incorporate supportive facts, details, and quotations
• Annotate texts and write brief narrative overviews
• Craft effective conclusions that encourage curiosity for future study
• Work on delivery in public speaking—volume, pacing, and inflection
• Build copiousness through sentence variety and rhetorical devices, including analogy, simile, metaphor, chiasma, hypophora, parallelism, and anastrophe
• Engage in group discussions that foster critical thinking
• Improve essays using oration as an aid to revision

Suggested Schedule
Scope & Sequence
Comparison Rubric

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Companion Products:

Writing & Rhetoric Book 8: Comparison – Student Edition
Writing & Rhetoric Book 8: Comparison – Teacher’s Edition
Writing & Rhetoric Book 8: Comparison – Audio CD
Writing & Rhetoric Book 8: Comparison – Audio Files

Writing & Rhetoric Book 8: Comparison Set