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ELA Drills, Advanced: Comparing and Contrasting. What's the difference between how the authors present information in the two sentences?
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- 00:04
And here's your shmoop du jour brought to you by Genghis Khan one
- 00:07
of the fiercest warriors of all time even when he was writing her enough [Genghis Khan appears on a field]
- 00:11
pretty horses all right take a look at the following two sentences Genghis Khan
- 00:15
was one of the most feared conquerors of all time and Genghis Khan was a great
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strategist and military leader too thrilling sentences all right here's one
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- 00:23
question what's the difference between how the author's present information in [Question appears]
- 00:27
the two sentences and here are potential answers all right....
- 00:31
right even though Genghis might get mad
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at us we're going to give you a hint when two different authors write about [Authors holding books]
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the same subject they can do it in very very different ways sometimes to the
- 00:46
point that you might even wonder if they're actually writing about the same
- 00:49
thing let's take a look at our options and see which one is the best fit
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starting from the bottom with D the first author sets up a discussion of
- 00:56
Khan's economic policies well if we look at that first sentence and try as we [Magnifying glass hovers over sentence]
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might we don't see anything about economic policies so it is an easy no
- 01:05
what about C the second author is critical of Genghis Khan well let's take
- 01:10
a look at that second sentence the author calls Khan a great strategist and [Great strategist and military leader highlighted]
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military leader we don't know about you but when someone says we're graded stuff
- 01:17
we tend to take it more of a compliment than criticism so I mean si has gone as
- 01:21
well I would be the first author portrays Genghis Khan positively hmm
- 01:25
well let's go back the first sentence for a second the author calls Kant a
- 01:28
feared Conqueror sure that means he was really good at conquering but being [Woman reading to son in bed]
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feared isn't exactly positive in fact we'd say it's downright negative so be
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is down what about a the second author seems to admire Genghis Khan well as we
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mentioned that second author called Khan a great strategist and military leader
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which sounded pretty complimentary we tend to compliment those we admire so [Genghis holding a book]
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it's pretty fair to say that the second off it really does seem to admire
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Genghis Khan we have our answer so we don't quite know if the second author [Genghis plunges sword into book]
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and Genghis Khan would actually get along for betting No
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