3. Read and analyze two passages provided by the teacher about a common topic. Annotate those, particularly for main idea and supporting details, organizational pattern, tone, author’s perspective, and details and information that support those. Create/complete a graphic organizer to record your thinking about each of those two passages and to prewrite for the comparison-contrast essay. Craft an essay identifying and explaining important similarities and differences in the two passages provided/assigned, using information from the texts as support. UNIT RESOURCES: (include internet addresses for linking) See links to texts provided within the Instructional Strategies. Other texts that might be used for final activity, include but are not limited to the following: No Pretty Picture: A Child of War, by Anita Lobel (nonfiction) by Giles Milton Wolfram: The Boy Who Went to War, Upon the Head of the Goat: A Childhood in Hungary 1939-1944, by Aranka Siegal (nonfiction) Milkweed, by Jerry Spinelli (historical fiction novel) Thin Wood Walls, by David Patneaude (historical fiction novel) Baseball Saved Us, by Ken Mochizuki (historical fiction picture book) The Orphans of Normandy: A True of World War II Told through Drawings by Children, by Nancy Amis (nonfiction picture book) Hiding from the Nazis, by David A. Adler (historical fiction picture book)
3. Read and analyze two passages provided by the teacher about a common topic. Annotate those, particularly for main idea and supporting details, organizational pattern, tone, author’s perspective, and details and information that support those. Create/complete a graphic organizer to record your thinking about each of those two passages and to prewrite for the comparison-contrast essay. Craft an essay identifying and explaining important similarities and differences in the two passages provided/assigned, using information from the texts as support. UNIT RESOURCES: (include internet addresses for linking) See links to texts provided within the Instructional Strategies. Other texts that might be used for final activity, include but are not limited to the following: No Pretty Picture: A Child of War, by Anita Lobel (nonfiction) Wolfram: The Boy Who Went to War, by Giles Milton Upon the Head of the Goat: A Childhood in Hungary 1939-1944, by Aranka Siegal (nonfiction) Milkweed, by Jerry Spinelli (historical fiction novel) Thin Wood Walls, by David Patneaude (historical fiction novel) Baseball Saved Us, by Ken Mochizuki (historical fiction picture book) The Orphans of Normandy: A True of World War II Told through Drawings by Children, by Nancy Amis (nonfiction picture book) Hiding from the Nazis, by David A. Adler (historical fiction picture book)
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