Short Stories of Ernest Hemingway Lesson Plan

Journaling as Al and Max

Kind of Activity:

Creative Writing

Objective:

Students will rewrite a narrative from an alternate point of view

Common Core Standards:

CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.W.11-12.3, CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RL.11-12.6, CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.W.11-12.6

Structure:

As a means of analyzing the impact of point of view on narrative, students will write a journal entry as one of the two hit men in "The Killers" summarizing their experience of the story's events. This should not be a blow-for-blow retelling of what Hemingway wrote, but should synthesize the main events as students imagine the hit men would have summarized them retrospectively. Given that this is a...