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Writing the Personal Experience (PE) Response Activity

A strong response essay will often include a personal experience response where you connect your assertion idea and prompt evidence to the experience of yourself or someone from your social circle. The experience does not have to be the exact same experience; it can be something/someone in the abstract (something that is similar in some way). You must explain in some detail how your PE response is connected to the idea.

For the Leadership personal response essay, the Comparative and PE responses will be divided by paragraph (if you place your comparative response in one paragraph, the personal experience should be in the other). You will show your plan for the comparative response to the learning coach, so I would like you to share your plan for the PE response in this activity.

Consider the person you chose for your PE response in the earlier PE response activity. Now write the PE response completely following the directions from the Course Pack/lesson (this should be a minimum of 3 sentences.

1. Write the first sentence using the transition In my experience, this reminds me….:

2. Explain your PE response with 1 or more sentences of detail (you can add it below or to what you already wrote above):

3. Conclude your PE response with one sentence that makes a direct connection to the prompt evidence/key word ideas your are using. You can do this using the Although (differences with prompt), (similarities with prompt) structure, or the This relates (to what George wrote in…) because…structure:

Some things to consider:

· The leader can be someone close to you (i.e. a teacher, parent, relative, coach, etc.) or yourself (when you were a leader or did something that required leadership).

· It is helpful to think of one specific situation or event that demonstrates the idea.

· The PE response can be something in opposition of the idea—it can show the opposite of what the idea is in order to explain what the idea is by showing what it is not.

· The PE response must have a clear connection to the evidence from the prompt and the thesis/assertion key word ideas you are using. This connection must be explained.