Day 6: PIE

Today's Learning Objectives:

• Review Introductions and Conclusions
• understand PIE structures and practice applying them to our Diagnostic Essays.
• understand the importance of supporting details
• discover types of supporting evidence
• identify supporting evidence in an essay

Part I: Review Introductions and Conclusions     (9:30-10:00)

1. Get into pairs and open the document titled Strategies for Writing Good Introductions and Conclusions. We will then discuss your answers as a class.  

2. Next, you will read two sample essays -- “Changing English: the African American Influence” and “Climbing High Rockies” and answer the corresponding questions from the handout  Diagnostic Quiz: Writing Introduction and Conclusions. You will then share your answers with the class. The key is posted here as well. 

Supporting Details Activity (10:00-10:20)

3. Now we will take another look at one of those same essays from the start of class,  “Climbing High Rockies”  and try to answer the questions which follow. The questions ask what the purpose of each paragraph is, and to list any supporting details they have found. After, we will check the KEY for the answers. 

Types of Supporting Evidence commonly used:

• facts
• statistics
• personal experiences
• anecdotes
• observations
• analogies 
• etc.

Part II: PIE (10:20-10:50)

Today, I want to introduce you to the concept of PIE and how it is related to our writing. Please click on the following document. After we go through the document, we will open up our own diagnostics essay and highlight one paragraph according to the direction from the worksheet.

Homework: Draft #1 of the Diagnostic Essay is due at the start of class via Dropbox. Please upload your document to the Unit 1 Folder and label it Diagnostics2. Please come prepared as we will be doing a small peer review session in class. Thank you.