Compare/Contrast - Unit 5, GW5

 

 

 

The idea behind a Compare/Contrast essay is see how well you identify with a character from our Reader, Hidden Figures. The women we know the most about up to this point are: Dorothy Vaughan, Mary Jackson, Katherine Goble Johnson. Your assignment was to pick one of these women and discuss which ways you identify with their lives.

This book has given us a great deal of personal and professional information about each of these women, about their lives in society, at the workplace, and with their families. You have been exposed to a great amount of details about each, the challenges they faced, the successes they achieved.

                                                                               

In the prereading practices, you were able to predict, discover, and learn about how these women played an important part in American history. You have your own history. How does your history interact with theirs? The question arises:  in what ways do you identify with these characters, personally and professionally? That is the idea behind writing paper #2 - how you identify and how you differ.  

You've done a good job in brainstorming and writing an outline to explore what points you may discuss in your paper. Now is the time to transfer those ideas into a five-paragraph essay that contains an Introduction, three body paragraphs, and a conclusion.  

This will be a five-paragraph essay again similar to your first two essays. If you need to, please go back to earlier pages where we go over the Five-paragraph essay.

You will also be asked to include your final Outline above the essay, plus include a Quote from Text in your essay. If you need to, review our previous exercises on quoting from text.

Next is a Sample Body Paragraph drawn from one section of an Outline -  for Essay #2 - for your review.