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Richard Beach – English Journal, 2017
The author describes two students creating narrative versions of an event from Tim O'Brien's "The Things They Carried" to portray conflicts in characters' interactions to address the issue of sex abuse. Through rewriting events in texts, students gain a sense of how use of dialogue can serve to portray larger underlying tensions between…
Descriptors: High School Students, Writing Assignments, Perspective Taking, Creative Writing