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Compare and Contrast Essay

This document provides instructions for a compare and contrast essay assignment on the Hercules text and Disney movie. Students are asked to use an alternating or integrated method to compare and contrast the two works. The introduction should mention the title, author, and Disney movie before the thesis statement. The essay will be scored based on how well it organizes opinions and ideas in a logical manner and selects relevant details and examples to develop ideas. A rubric is also provided to assess achievement levels for these two criteria.

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Compare and Contrast Essay

This document provides instructions for a compare and contrast essay assignment on the Hercules text and Disney movie. Students are asked to use an alternating or integrated method to compare and contrast the two works. The introduction should mention the title, author, and Disney movie before the thesis statement. The essay will be scored based on how well it organizes opinions and ideas in a logical manner and selects relevant details and examples to develop ideas. A rubric is also provided to assess achievement levels for these two criteria.

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Compare and Contrast Essay

Using an alternating or integrated method, write a comparison/contrast essay about the


Hercules text that you read and the Disney movie. You may refer to your notes and the Venn
Diagram that you created. Your introduction should give the title and author of your text as well
as mention the Disney movie before your thesis statement.

You will be scored using:


● Criterion Bii organize opinions and ideas in a sustained, coherent and logical
manner
● Criterion Ciii select relevant details and examples to develop ideas.
You will get a summative score for each criteria.

Rubric:

Choice A: write a letter OR make short video, accompanied by 500-word reflection identifying artistic use of
genre conventions + intertextuality, including critique of intended effect to shape audience’s perspective
Choice B: in medium of choice, create a reader/viewer’s guide to text/video, identifying artistic use of genre
conventions + intertextuality, including critique of intended effect to shape audience’s perspective
Criteria A i, ii, iv
Criteria C i, ii

Achievement Criterion Bii organize opinions Criterion Ciii select relevant


Level and ideas in a sustained, coherent details and examples to develop ideas.
and logical manner

0 Does not meet any standard below Does not meet any standard below

1-2 organizes opinions and ideas in a with


minimal degree of coherence and selects a few relevant details and
logic examples from both texts to develop
ideas.

3-4 organizes opinions and ideas in a with


some degree of coherence and logic selects some relevant details and
examples from both texts to develop
ideas.
5-6 organizes opinions and ideas in a
coherent and logical manner with selects sufficient relevant details and
ideas building on each other examples from both texts to develop
ideas.

7-8 effectively organizes opinions and


ideas in a sustained, coherent and selects extensive relevant details and
logical manner with ideas building on examples from both texts to develop
each other in a sophisticated way ideas with precision.

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