COMPARISON AND CONTRAST ESSAY

 Provide evidence and support to back up each point in your essay.

 Develop a list of similarities and differences between the two topics to help when actually writing the essay.
 Pick two similar topics (NOT analogies which make the topic less logical and doesn’t prove anything).

BLOCK METHOD POINT BY POINT

INTRODUCTION:
 Attention getter or hook. (Captar/enganchar)
 Background information.
 Thesis statement (A short statement, usually
one sentence, that summarizes the main point
or claim of an essay, research paper, etc., and is
developed, supported, and explained in the text
by means of examples and evidence).
INTRODUCTION:
 Attention getter or hook.
 Background information.
 Thesis statement (A short statement, usually
one sentence, that summarizes the main point
or claim of an essay, research paper, etc., and is
developed, supported, and explained in the text
by means of examples and evidence).

FIRST TOPIC: PRICE:

 Topic sentence a) Topic 1
a) Price b) Topic 2
b) Mileage
c) Insurance MILEAGE:
a) Topic 1
SECOND TOPIC: b) Topic 2
 Topic sentence
a) Price INSURANCE:
b) Mileage a) Topic 1
c) Insurance b) Topic 2

CONCLUSION: CONCLUSION:
 Emphasize major tiles.  Emphasize major tiles.

BRAINSTORMING

SCHOOL BULLIES DICTATORS

 Get friends to bully too.
 Bully smaller group of people or a single
person.
 Pick and small and weak people.
 Often leads to suicide or suicidal thoughts.
 Insecure, action based off of emotions.
 Supported by large groups of people like
armies.
 Rule a large population like a country.
 Pick on anyone: not always a specific type of
person.
 Prepare detailed plans to gain a lot of power.
 Victims die not as a result of their choice,
usually for not obeying or agreeing with
leader’s goal/messages.

SIMILARITES

 Feel confident when supported by others.

 Controlling.
 Both feel powerful.
 Their goal is to fulfil their own needs.
 Harm victim in some way.
 ESSAY OUTLINE (ESQUEMA DE ENSAYO)

THESIS STATEMENT: Although school bullies and dictators may seem very different in nature, there are many
similarities between them, illustrating that school bullies are no better than dictators.

ARGUMENT 1:

SIMILARITIES: Both school bullies and dictators feel powerful and controlling.

DIFFERENCES:

 BULLIES: Pick on small, weak people, victims tend to be in a small group or a single person.
 DICTATORS: Pick on anyone, not always a specific type of person.

ARGUMENT 2:

SIMILARITIES: Both in a same way, harm their victims.

DIFFERENCES:

 BULLIES: Make victims feel insecure about themselves, like they don’t want to live anymore leading to
suicide or suicidal thoughts.
 DICTATORS: Mostly not the choice of the victim to die or to be harmed, usually a result of not obeying or
agreeing with the leader’s message or goal.

ARGUMENT 3:

SIMILARITIES: Both bullies and dictators are guided by their desires to fulfil their own needs.

DIFFERENCES:

 BULLIES: Insecure, usually makes them feel better about themselves, actions based on emotions, not
thought through, feel confident about themselves when supported with others/friends.
 DICTATORS: Usually confident so they do it to gain power, prepare detailed plans so they know what they’re
doing when they get into that situation.