Rationale

This lesson is designed to be used as either an intervention lesson for students who need more instruction on how to write an essay for the Long Essay Question found on AP History exams, or those who miss class when this is taught in the first placed.  It is designed to be done either from home, or during Power Hour.

Goal

For students to write a Comparison LEQ earning 3/6 or more points on the Rubric

Objectives

Students will be able to:

• ​Write an acceptable thesis statement answering all parts of the question for a comparative LEQ prompt
• Write acceptable topic sentences for the body paragraphs of a comparative essay
• Construct sentences designed to provide analysis of similarities and differences
  
• Provide evidence that can prove said thesis statement/topic sentences
• Explicitly connect said evidence to the thesis/topic sentences in a way that proves the relationship without question
• Demonstrate synthesis/extend an argument in an essay by connecting the argument to one of the following:
  1. A development in a different historical period, situation, era, or geographical
     area.
     
  2. A course theme and/or approach to history that is not the focus of the essay
     (such as political, economic, social, cultural, or intellectual history).
     
  3. A different discipline or field of inquiry (such as economics, government and
     politics, art history, or anthropology) (WH & Euro only)
     

Process

Students will download THIS RUBRIC and take notes on it while they watch the video below.  After watching the video, students are instructed to write a comparative essay satisfying all of the rubric requirements to the following "silly" prompt.

Prompt: Evaluate the extent to which live action films (as in NOT ANIMATED) and animated feature films (Disney, Pixar, Dreamworks, etc) of the early 21st century are both similar and different from each other.

Click here for a student sample of a more "serious" comparative LEQ