Grade 7: Compare-Contrast Essay

An introduction should identify your subjects and capture interest. Try these ideas.

Begin with a question.

Have you ever mistaken a toad for a frog? Though similar in many ways, these animals are also different.

Tell a brief story.

I waited eagerly in the dark theater. My all-time favorite book had been made into a movie. By the show's end, though, I was disappointed. Though a book and a movie may tell the same story, they do it differently.

State a surprising fact.

The banjo was brought to America by enslaved West Africans. Though it is somewhat like the guitar, these two instruments also have significant differences.

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