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Alternative Viewpoints
Kind of Activity:
Creative Writing
Objective:
Students will consider an alternative view of one of the narrations
Common Core Standards:
CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.W.11-12.3
Structure:
The Boat brings up many questions about authorship, authenticity, and who gets to tell which kinds of stories. In this creative-writing exercise, students will strengthen their writing skills by placing themselves in the shoes of one of Le's secondary characters.
They may choose from the following stories and viewpoints:
• "Love and Honor and Pity and Pride and Compassion and Sacrifice," from the perspective of Nam's father or Nam's girlfriend
• “Cartagena," from the...
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