All Summer in a Day

Post date: Nov 12, 2010 2:53:32 PM

Expository Writing Comparing and Contrasting Earth with Venus from the Story.

The assignment is make a Venn diagram of comparisons and contrasts Earth with the Venus of the story "All Summer in a Day" on pg 42 of the lit book.

Then students write one paragraph of three to four comparisons with the first sentence "There are a lot of similarities between Earth and Venus in the story "All Summer in a Day" by Ray Bradbury. Students must include an example from the story to back up their comparison and two transition words (also, as, as well as, both, like, same, similar, or the same as).

Students write a second paragraph with three to four contrasts with the first sentence "Likewise, there are also many differences between Earth and Venus from the story" with at least one example from the story and two transition words (unlike, while, however, differ, although, even though, in contrast to, and but).

This will be due Monday and must be the Venn Diagram and two paragraphs.