Developing a Pyramid

Click on the link below to open up the pyramid activity.

In the activity, the questions generated for the next level of categories shouldn’t be surprising. They do not introduce new information from the main message, but instead emerge from issues already raised in the way the main message has been written. Your wording of the questions and answers may be different from the ones shown in the illustration, but the ideas should be very much the same.

Also, please note that these questions closely reflect the writer’s purpose. The questions deal with the benefits of the changes in agricultural policies.  

Each of these questions should generate another answer, which will look very much like another main message only on a more narrowly defined scale. You can think of these subsequent levels of main messages as “miniature” main messages.