The Fault in Our Stars Lesson Plan

Shifting Perspectives

Kind of Activity:

Creative Writing

Objective:

Students will be able to understand the importance of narrative perspective and reliability in storytelling.

Common Core Standards:

CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.CCRA.R.6 ; CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.CCRA.W.3

Structure:

Ask students how they think their reading of the story is affected by its first-person narration. What might Hazel be leaving out, or what might color her telling of the events of the novel? Ask them to think of other novels with first-person narration and how they related to the narrator and his/her storytelling style.

Next, have students choose a scene from Chapters 1 through 10 and re-write it, this time from...