The English Patient Lesson Plan

Personal Journal

Kind of Activity:

Creative Writing

Objective:

To expand upon facts provided in the text to further explore the character’s point of view

Common Core Standards:

CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RL.11-12.1; CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.WHST.11-12.10

Structure:

Ondaatje’s impressionistic writing means that often snippets of characters' histories are brought up but not fully developed, leaving the reader with just a passing impression of what that event or thought meant. As a creative writing exercise, students should write journal entries from the perspective of one of the main characters of a particular incident described in the text. Students should use the context given in the...