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COMPARE AND CONTRAST

COMPARE AND CONTRAST. A thinking skill. WHY? WHEN DO WE USE IT?. Social studies Writing essays Preparing reports Personal lives Purchasing a car Choosing a CD player. TASK. Get a piece of paper and a pen or pencil.

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COMPARE AND CONTRAST

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  1. COMPARE AND CONTRAST A thinking skill

  2. WHY? WHEN DO WE USE IT? • Social studies • Writing essays • Preparing reports • Personal lives • Purchasing a car • Choosing a CD player

  3. TASK • Get a piece of paper and a pen or pencil. • Find a partner and arrange your chairs/desks so that you are sitting directly across from one another. • Without talking or communicating in any way, please write down all of the characteristics you see which are LIKE the ones you have. (Example-eyes) • Again, without talking or communicating in any way, please write down all of the characteristics you see which are DIFFERENT than ones you have. (Example- different hair or eye color)

  4. GOING INTO MORE DEPTH • Think of 6 questions you would like to ask your partner. • Draw a chart with two columns. • Ask your partner the questions. Record the answers in the correct column.

  5. RULES • Comparing = looking for similarities • Contrasting = looking for differences • The first time around look for "easy to see" items. • The second time around look for more major differences by developing questions about the topic you are investigating. • Ask yourself: Who-What-Why-Where-When and How questions.

  6. APPLYING THIS SKILL TO A PROJECT • The title of our project is “Countries Around the World”. • Divide class into groups of 2-3 students. • Each student chooses a country.

  7. BACKGROUND INFORMATION - CONTINENTS

  8. CONTINENTS

  9. MORE INFORMATION

  10. AND EVEN MORE INFORMATION...

  11. MORE GRAPHIC ILLUSTRATION

  12. TEACHING VOCABULARY • Some compare signal words are: similar, like, still, likewise, in the same ways, in comparison, at the same time, in the same manner. • Some contrast signal words are: however, on the other hand, but, yet, nevertheless, conversely, rather, on the contrary, nonetheless, in contrast.

  13. CONNECTORS

  14. WRITING A SHORT COMPARE AND CONTRAST PARAGRAPH Asia is the largest continent in both area and population. It has 29.5% of total area and 60% of the total population unlike Australia that has only 5.9% of the total area and 0.5% of the total population……………….

  15. Symbolic Use of Colors in Flags • The colors used in aflagrepresent the values of thatcountry . • BLACKRepresents determination, ethnic heritage, and/or defeating one's enemies. • BLUERepresents freedom, justice, prosperity, peace, and/or patriotism

  16. GREENSymbolizes the Earth, agriculture,. fertility, and/or the Muslim religion • REDRed often represents courage, revolution, blood • WHITERepresents peace, purity, mountain snow,. A simple white flag represents surrender • YELLOW(GOLD)Represents the sun, wealth, and/or justice.

  17. STUDENT’S WORK -1 • Flag work (symbols) • Locating country and continent • Create and ID card for the country • Continent • Area • Population • Flag • Religion • Currency • Languages • Capital city

  18. STUDENT’S WORK -2 • Write a short paragraph about the country. Include tourist attractions, typical food, festivals, etc. • In groups: Compare and Contrast the countries. • Choose the criteria to compare and contrast. • Make a chart/diagram of similarities and differences. • Write a short compare and contrast paragraph.

  19. COMPARE & CONTRAST QUIZ • Find one similarity and one difference in the following words: Banana Dresser Grammar Potato Revive Assess Uneven

  20. Thank You ~ Pircha!

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