PIE How to write an analytical argument Make

PIE How to write an analytical argument

Make a Point • Choose a side to your argument • State your opinion on the point. • Ex. The most prominent theme in Harry Potter and the Sorcerers Stone is love will conquer all.

Illustrate the point using a quote • Find a quote from the text that illustrates your point • Ex. “If there is one thing Voldemort cannot understand, it is love. Love as powerful as your mother's for you leaves it's own mark. To have been loved so deeply, even though the person who loved us is gone, will give us some protection forever. ”

Explain 1. Put the quote in your own words 2. Describe the visual or image that this quote provides. 3. Look at the language used in the quote, what do the words mean, how do the specific words change your understanding of the quote. 4. Connect the quote to other events in the text 5. Connect the quote back to your Point

Ex. • Love is a power so strong that it leaves its marks long after that love has disappeared. In the wizarding world filled with magic JK Rowling makes it know that love is the strongest source of power even the darkest of wizards has no defense against the love that a mother has left her son. His mother’s love covers Harry like a suit of armor impenetrable by the hate that Voldemort tries to spread. Like the suit of armor love offers the characters protection, a family, a group of friends, a safe place in a hectic and unfriendly world. Harry finds all of these in Hogwarts and his friends in Gryffindor. Love permeates through all whole novel. Harry is protected by his mother’s love in a very literal sense when Voldemort cannot touch him but also the love of his community and friends within Hogwarts helps to shape him into the character he needs to be in order to defeat Voldemort.

After Reading “He-y, Come on Ou-t” • Choose a theme from the story • Write an analytical paragraph following PIE to justify why you think this is the most important theme in the story