Help With Compare And Contrast Essays For Middle School Students

In compare and contrast essays, you are supposed to discuss the similarities as well as the differences between two ideas or things. This article is basically intended to help the middle school students with their compare and contrast essays by guiding them on how to go about with it.

1. Read all the instructions carefully and understand what you are being asked in your compare and contrast essays. It might be two things, texts, ideas or people etc. Also make a note of instructions relating to due date and length etc.
2. Draw a Venn diagram containing two circles. On the top of both the circles, write down both the things that you are going to compare in compare and contrast essays. Write the differences in each of the respective circles and common things in between where the circles overlap each other.
3. Now have a look at the Venn Diagram that you have made and decide which points are the most interesting, important and complex. These should become the main focus of your compare and contrast essays. For example, if two love poems are given then main discussion should focus on their opinions about love and not the font of the poem etc.
4. You can also use bullets in compare and contrast essays. There are two approaches to write this essay: Either describe both the subjects in two separate paragraphs or give one paragraph to each comparison point.
5. There are certain topics listed below for compare and contrast essays which could be given to the middle school students.

• Asiatic Elephant and African Elephant
• Burmese Python and Anaconda
• A passive Student and an active student
• Anti-Abortion and Anti Slavery
• The Da Vinci Code and Angels and Demons
• French Revolution and American revolution
• Increasing population and Global Warming
• Graphite and Diamond
• Snow white and Cindrella
• Public Schools and Catholic schools
• Cruises and Boats
• Visit to a pet store and visit to a zoo
• Buying a kitten and buying a cat
• Disposable diapers and cloth diapers
• Whales and Dolphins

Out of many types of essays, compare and contrast essays are also one type. Middle school students are often given these and they can prepare it in this way: First read all the instructions thoroughly. Draw a Venn diagram and fill it with appropriate points. Focus more on interesting points. You can use bullets etc too. Topics can be Chess and Carom, Apes and Monkeys, Boats and Cruises etc.