Compare/ Contrast Essay Prompt: “Masque of the Red Death” and “The Black Plague”
Renae White
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Grade Levels
9th - 12th
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Standards
CCSSRL.9-10.1
CCSSRL.9-10.2
CCSSRL.9-10.5
CCSSRL.9-10.6
CCSSRL.9-10.10
Formats Included
- PDF
Pages
18 pages
Renae White
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Description
This text-based expository essay prompt asks students to compare and contrast a short story with an informational text.
Two optional scaffolding resources included: frontloading vocabulary handout and outline
Essay rubric based on Florida's Grade 10 B.E.S.T. Expository Rubric may align with other states' standards
Suggested pacing: five (5) 50-minute class periods (two days reading/analyzing texts, one day unpacking the prompt and outlining, one day drafting, one day revising)
Total Pages
18 pages
Answer Key
Rubric only
Teaching Duration
1 Week
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Standards
to see state-specific standards (only available in the US).
CCSSRL.9-10.1
Cite strong and thorough textual evidence to support analysis of what the text says explicitly as well as inferences drawn from the text.
CCSSRL.9-10.2
Determine a theme or central idea of a text and analyze in detail its development over the course of the text, including how it emerges and is shaped and refined by specific details; provide an objective summary of the text.
CCSSRL.9-10.5
Analyze how an author’s choices concerning how to structure a text, order events within it (e.g., parallel plots), and manipulate time (e.g., pacing, flashbacks) create such effects as mystery, tension, or surprise.
CCSSRL.9-10.6
Analyze a particular point of view or cultural experience reflected in a work of literature from outside the United States, drawing on a wide reading of world literature.
CCSSRL.9-10.10
By the end of grade 9, read and comprehend literature, including stories, dramas, and poems, in the grades 9-10 text complexity band proficiently, with scaffolding as needed at the high end of the range.By the end of grade 10, read and comprehend literature, including stories, dramas, and poems, at the high end of the grades 9-10 text complexity band independently and proficiently.
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