Compare details and viewpoints in two accounts
The idea
Read both accounts and separate details each states from ideas you would have to guess.
Step by step
- Read both accounts and separate details each states from ideas you would have to guess.
- Find matching or compatible details, allowing for words that express the same meaning.
- Use each writer’s stated role to explain differences in focus without assuming either account is false.
Example
Account A: At the fictional school fair, I helped arrange the art table before visitors arrived. Account B: The art table was ready when the fair opened, and visitors soon gathered around it.
What fact do both accounts support?
Answer
The art table was ready by the fair’s opening.
Both accounts place a ready art table at the opening; neither gives the writer’s identity, universal purchases or a time.
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Write one short account of an invented school event as a helper and another as a visitor. Compare one shared detail and one difference in focus.
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