John Rick
9th grade English
9/12/11
The comparison
( an essay about the connection of a song, a poem, and my life
Bell Word: common
Echoes: the same, very similar
Hook: the song “For a Dancer”, The Poem, “A Dream Deferred”, and my life what they have in common
CM: that’s what this essay is about
CM: What do they have that’s the same
SD: They all sound to be so different
CM: The name for a dancer and the name a dream deferred different
CS:I would like to Describe things that very similar
Body Paragraph one
Bell: common
Echoes: nearly the same, similar
TS: The song for a dancer and a dream deferred have 2 completely different names so it was difficult to find things they have in common
SD: The first thing they have in common: Depressing
CM: For a Dancer wife committing suicide
CM: Dream differed about someone’s dream never happening
SD: Also similar have in some way the same meaning
CM: Dream deferred persons dream dying
CM: For a dancer wife dying
SD: Finally nearly the same is they are both very well written
CM: Langston Hughes viewed the possibilities a different way like how he described it
CM: Jackson Browne Really showed how felt about wife committing suicide
CS: SO After really thinking the two have more in common than expected
Body Paragraph 2
Bell: common
Echoes: identical, no different
TS: Song for a dancer and Dream deferred have a few things in common with my life
SD: I can compare my life to song for a dancer
CM: My grandpa dying to his wife’s death
CM: How it happened after I was born
SD: Dream deferred to my life
CM: my dream to finish my tree house
CM: My dream was a too heavy load and sag too much and blew over during the recent hurricane
SD: Lastly they are all written
CM: A dream Deferred written to describe a dying dream and a son for a dancer written to mourn the death of his wife
CM: My life Is still a book to be finished and I hope its not as saddening as the others
CS: My life is a book with no main idea and has a lot to still be written
Concluding paragraph
TS: how I descried the similar things of all three
CM: there may be other things
CS: There are many songs and poems but there are none exactly the same as theses two