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Here's your shmoop du jour brought to you by story maps, Hansel and Gretel

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well they really could have used one okay here's question what graphic [Hansel and Gretel lost in the woods]

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organizer would you use to compare two different texts on the same topic and

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here your potential answers, alright....[mumbles]

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If we're trying to compare two different texts we're really trying to figure out

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what those two texts have in common and what makes them different like what you [Two textbooks fighting with knives]

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try to accomplish when you're Facebook stalking someone keeping that in mind

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let's take a look at our options and see if any of em are good at showing things

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held in common and things that are different well, let's start at the top

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with a story map yep as you might be able to guess, a story map maps the [Student holding a story map at the front of class]

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different parts of a story the characters are setting the main problem

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and all that good stuff we guess you could make story maps for two different

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stories but well they wouldn't help you much in making any comparison so that

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means A is out what about B; a KWL chart kwl...a kwl chart lists three things

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what you know, what you want to know, what you learned

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hence the KWL there.. mind-boggling stuff again it's a great way to organize

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your thoughts about a text and you could make one for two texts but those charts [Man and woman with KWL charts]

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aren't going to do much when you want to put them together just like your

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cat and the new puppy she doesn't like. So another one bites the dust how about

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D a sequence chart well the sequence chart helps us to organize what happened [Sequence chart example]

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in a story following each event from start to finish we're starting to sense

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a pattern here people make em for two texts if you like but they won't really

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help you make a comparison that means D is dead leaving us with C a Venn diagram

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ding-ding-ding the whole idea of a Venn diagram is to take two circles and use [Two circles drawn as Venn diagram]

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them to show how two things are the same or different the bit where the two

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circles intersect is what the two things have in common while the other parts of [Middle section of venn diagram explained]

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the circle are all the things that are different

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well the Venn diagram shows you both clear as day making comparison a breeze

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so our answer is C we use a Venn diagram to compare two different texts on the

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same topic if only all of our problems could be solved with two circles but [Man and woman either side of a venn diagram]

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we're pretty sure all they can really help with is comparisons

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and buying a gumball [Man buying a gumball from a dispenser]

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