Overview
This prompt asks students to retell a story or situation from a text from a different point of view.
Follow these steps to customize this narrative/applying task:
- Review the steps in the handout "Plan for Write to the Source."
- Review the sample task and then fill in the task template fields below the sample task.
- Review the handout "Narrative Writing Rubric." Adapt as necessary.
Sample task
Essential Question: How does struggle influence personal identity?
Text Title(s): Read “Ain’t I a Woman.”
Suggested Writing Product: Think about how the ideas it describes might feel different from the point of view of someone from a different identity group. After brainstorming this topic with a partner or small group, rewrite the speech from a different speaker’s point of view.
Additional Task Demand: Enrich the story by showing (not telling) how this speaker’s identity leads to a slightly different point of view.