Flashing back to last week, we discussed Anna Quindlen’s “Melting
Pot.” We talked a lot about prejudice and cultural differences. I raised the
question, “What is more important, our similarities or our differences?” This
is the question I want you to think about for this week’s blog post!
But first, consider this:
It seems that much of what we do in life has a purpose.
Think about it! You go to school to learn, you brush your teeth to prevent cavities,
and you eat to fulfill hunger… Well
authors also WRITE with a purpose too!
In fact, you have a PURPOSE for writing this week’s blogpost;
and the purpose isn’t just to get your homework assignment done! (HA) Your purpose for writing this blogpost is
to PERSUADE your audience.
With a blog post of at least 8 sentences or more, I want you
to PERSUADE or convince readers that our similarities are more important than
our differences OR our differences are more important than our similarities (whichever
you choose to argue).
Support your argument. Why do YOU think similarities more important?
Or why do YOU think differences are more important? Why should readers agree
with YOU? Give an example or two. Write so that others will understand your
point of view and be persuaded by it!
Your post is due no later than Friday, October 5th at 5pm!
I think our differences and similarities are both important because everyone is unique. People can be different and this allows them to try new things. For example, someone who likes soccer and someone who likes football can meet and they can try to play each other’s sport. Similarities can be fun because you and your friend can be best friends
ReplyDeleteI think similarities are more important because that’s how you can make friends. You make friends by finding out what you both like so without similarities it would be impossible to make friends because that’s the main thing that you need. If we did not have friends think about how boring it would be to live here. If we had no friends we would not be happy we would not have any body to talk to when we need to talk. Or at recess it would be boring. That’s why I think we need similarities.
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ReplyDeleteI think both similarities and differences are important. If you have differences and you want to go see a movie with your friend you both might want to see different movies. But, you can see your friend’s movie and then the next time you can see your movie. If you trying new things you might end up liking them.
If you have similarities you can agree on everything you want to do or get with you friend. So you don’t have to fight or disagree about what you want to do.
i think that it is better to compromise when you have differences because you can each do different things. Also you can learn how to do what your friends like and they can learn about what you like to do.
ReplyDeleteI think similarities are better because its good to have the same things in common. If i wanted to have a football game with my friends we would all have the same thing in common. I think differences are not better because if u asked your friends if they wanted to have a football game and they said they dont like football then we wouldnt have the same thing in common. That is why I chose similarities.
ReplyDeleteI honestly think that similarities are more important than differences. If you have a new friend and you want to decide what to do, you can discuss your similarities and see what you want to do besides fighting over it. Do you really want to be fighting over a silly difference and waste your time? Also, if you are playing a game like football or something and want to see what play you want to do, do you really want to fight over and over again over a play at football? You decide. But that is why I believe similarities are more important.
ReplyDeleteI think our differences are more important than our similarities because if you meet someone that has the same personality that would not be cool. What if you had to work with some one and you had the same personality that would make you feel very weird? I would not want a friend that I have the same personality with because it would be boring and I would never want to talk to them. Being different is what makes you who you are. What if every single one of us was tall and portly? We would all look the same and I would never have fun. Everybody is unique in all different ways. Those are why are differences are more important than our similarities.
ReplyDeleteI think differences are better that simalarities. If you are the same, it is just like being with yourself, thats not that fun. If we wanted to do a game of baseball, we would have different ways of doing things but we could learn a different way/ways of doing it. But if you dont like the same thing then you can comprimise or not do it. But you can learn new ways to do things the way that they do it. I think that differences are better than simalarities. Unless you fight.
ReplyDeleteI think that our similarities and our differences are important because we all should try new thing. If you have a friend that is different from you they will kind of be your reason to try new things. I also think it is good to have some similarities because you and your friend are both going to want to do something different than try new things all the time. People are different so it would be different for every one. Some people may want to have a friend that’s exactly like them, but I know that (for me ) it would be boring
ReplyDeleteI think both similarities and differences are important. Similarities are important because if you don't have anything in common with someone it's kind of hard to do something that you both want to do! It makes life easier to have things in common so you don't have to argue about everything you want to do. If I wanted to go to the movies and my friend wanted to go shopping we would have to argue and one of us would end up doing something we wouldn't want to! You can't have everything in common with your friend because there would be nothing new to talk about. That's why similarities are important!
ReplyDeleteDifferences are important too! Sometimes having nothing in common with your friend is a good thing. It can be a good thing because then you can talk about different things all the time. Having everything in common can get boring after awhile because you have nothing new to talk about. I think similarities and differences are important!
I think thatboth are very important.But i think that our differences are more important.Because our similarities are just things that are the same.But our differences are what we can do with our friends new things.You can try new things with your friends.Try things you may never see yourself doing.So thats's why i went with differences.
ReplyDeleteI think that similarities and differences are both important.If you want to have similarities with someone then that will probably mean that you want to see the same movie and it will help you not fight.Like if you want to go somewhere or listen to music or go outside and hangout with friends.This will help you get along good.
ReplyDeleteDifferences are good too because everyone is unique and can do the things you want to do.Like if you want to do something and your friend doesn’t want to then it’d different.You should never be the same person as another.You will always want to be different than anybody else.Also because if you want to eat something or do something and your friend wants to do everything you do then that’s going to be boring.
But I think both is good.
I think similarities are more important then differences for many reasons. First being similar means you like the same things. To be a good a friend you have to relate to them. If your differences come first you will have trouble picking things to do and TV shows to watch. Being similar is helpful because you don’t fight so much. And you are happy. Uniqueness is important but being similar is important.
ReplyDeleteI think it is better to have similarities and differences. If my friends like different things than I do we could each try new things.
ReplyDeleteI would like to try different things that my friends do. Like different music and dances.
I come to think that maybe similarities and differences are both important. On one hand if everyone had the same similarities would there be such thing as unique or what? Imagine if everyone was the same with the same personalities and everything would that really be good. I can se though how similarities can be good because our similarities helps us to get along well. On the other hand difference can create war. Diversity can also bring us together in small ways like in “ The melting Pot”.
ReplyDeleteAll in all i think they are very equal.