The Boat Lesson Plan

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...