Title – Introduction: o (hook) o Context/historical background: introduce your topic (time, what caused it, what is it, significance): The Crusades. o Summary of people/historians’ comments/opinions during modern era. (transition)o Thesis: This paper will compare and contrast differences/similarities between people/politicians opinions during the crusades and historians opinions during the modern era, and provide an analysis of possible causes for the difference/similarities. – (Body Paragraph 1 – optional): Talk about the topic in a more detailed way o Cause of it, What it was about o Significance: – Body Paragraph 2: Opinions from crusades – must be detailed examples/evidence o Topic sentence – summarize the opinions of the people alive during the crusades o Example 1 (quotation sandwich) o Example 2 (quotation sandwich) o Conclusion/summary – tie the body paragraph to your thesis statement – Body Paragraph 3: Modern historians’ opinions (exactly the same structure as Body Paragraph 2 ) – Body Paragraph 4: Comparison: point out which part is similar and which part is different Body Paragraph 5: Provide an analysis of possible causes for the differences/similarities – social, political, economic, or religious, etc. factors/aspects .