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Monday, October 15, 2018
Another Experiment
I gave an assignment to re-write a short-story from the perspective of another character. It turned out brilliantly. I was in awe of many of my students who do the assignment better than I could.
I love this assignment. It always works really well.
I just had them take a short story with an important, but non speaking (only observing, thinking) character and rewrite it as a short play wherein that character has to have a major speaking role.
It all works. It is the trick of perspective. I get so much better results from this than from "analyzing" the story. We do that in class, but then for the paper they take that and turn it around.
How do you grade? I normally do this in classes where I'm grading on grammar and structure, language things, but the problem for literature classes is that some don't really grasp the story, so aren't really giving another perspective on it, are just writing something else. Do you insist that their text really be a close play on the original?
Also: I once had them rewrite Luces de Bohemia as a newspaper issue. They got to choose the style of newspaper. It was brilliant.
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I love this assignment. It always works really well.
I just had them take a short story with an important, but non speaking (only observing, thinking) character and rewrite it as a short play wherein that character has to have a major speaking role.
It all works. It is the trick of perspective. I get so much better results from this than from "analyzing" the story. We do that in class, but then for the paper they take that and turn it around.
How do you grade? I normally do this in classes where I'm grading on grammar and structure, language things, but the problem for literature classes is that some don't really grasp the story, so aren't really giving another perspective on it, are just writing something else. Do you insist that their text really be a close play on the original?
Also: I once had them rewrite Luces de Bohemia as a newspaper issue. They got to choose the style of newspaper. It was brilliant.
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