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Page 1: Sec 2 History SBQ Skill: Compare and Contrast
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What is it?What does it involve?What are the questions like?How to answer?Are there steps we can follow?

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What is comparison?Looking at two or more objects and their features or characteristics, and looking at their similarities and differences.

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SoccerSoccerBasketballBasketball

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Criteria- A standard/a reference point by which

something is measured/compared.

Starting line/reference pointStarting line/reference point

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• False matching– Wrong criteria used to compare– E.g. The shape of the two waterbottles are different.

Waterbottle A is round while waterbottle B is blue.

A B

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• No match– No criteria used for comparison – E.g. Spotting the difference: Waterbottle A is red,

Waterbottle B is not red. – E.g. Waterbottle A is big. Waterbottle B is blue.

A B

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SBS BusSBS Bus SMRTSMRT

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• Provenance– Type of source (textual versus pictorial) – Government versus non-government

• Content (inferences) • tone• purpose

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Question types Required answers

How similar are sources A and B?How different are sources A and B?To what extent are sources A and B similar?To what extent are source A and B different?

BOTH similarities AND differences

In what ways are Sources A and B different? Differences

In what ways are Sources A and B are similar? Similarities

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Para 1: Similarities

Sources A and B are similar.

Both agree about __________________. (Basis of comparison)

Source A states that “(evidence)”. Source B states that “(evidence)”.

L1 (state that sources are similar)

L2 (given your basis of comparison

L3 (your evidences)

How to answer Compare and Contrast questions?

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How to answer Compare and Contrast questions?

Para 2: Differences

Sources A and B are different.

Both disagree about ______________________. (Basis of comparison)

Source A states that “(evidence)”. However, Source B states that “(evidence)”.

L1 (state that sources are similar)

L2 (given your basis of comparison

L3 (your evidences)

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Steps to answering Compare and Contrast

1. Read the question – what is the question asking for?

2. Read the topic – what is the issue?3. Read the sources

[highlight phrases related to the issue]4. Look for similarities/differences, identify

basis of comparison5. Write your answer!

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• Criteria– Correct way of comparing (having a valid criteria for

comparison)– Wrong way:

• False match• No match

– 4 types of criteria used to compare sources

• Question requirements • Template to answer• Steps to answering

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Now you try…

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Topic: Housing problems experienced in the

1960sSource A: A historian describes the housing situation in Singapore in the 1960s.

Over half of the residents lived in cubicles with an average size of about 9 square metres; a high proportion of these cubicles had no windows; sanitary conditions were unbearable and the buildings badly run down.

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Source B: Lim Kan San, first Chairman of the Housing Development Board, shares about his experience entering a crowded shophouse

I went into a three-storey shophouse. We counted 200 tenants living there. It was so dark and damp. Underneath the staircase was a single plank. A man was lying on the plank covered with a blanket. I paused to ask him if he was sick. “Why are you covering yourself with a thick blanket?” He replied, “I am covering myself out of respect for you. I am wearing only undershorts. My brother is wearing my pants.”

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Source A: A historian describes the housing situation in Singapore in the 1960s.

Source B: Lim Kan San, first Chairman of the Housing Development Board, shares about his experience entering a crowded shophouse.

Over half of the residents lived in cubicles with an average size of about 9 square metres; a high proportion of these cubicles had no windows; sanitary conditions were unbearable and the buildings badly run down.

I went into a three-storey shophouse. We counted 200 tenants living there. It was so dark and damp. Underneath the staircase was a single plank. A man was lying on the plank covered with a blanket. I paused to ask him if he was sick. “Why are you covering yourself with a thick blanket?” He replied, “I am covering myself out of respect for you. I am wearing only undershorts. My brother is wearing my pants.”

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Writing your answer…

• What is the question asking for?– Similarities ONLY.

• How many must I write?– 2 similarities

• What is my basis of comparison?• Where is my evidence?

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