We are trying to change a story from 3rd person / narrator to 1st person. We had to:
- Pick a fairy tale we know so we can rewrite it.
- Brainstorm a fairytale from another characters point of view. I choose to do mine from Hansel’s view.
- Add words to describe my character Hansel – oldest, brave, gets lost, aware of step mother’s feeling.
- Add the pronouns I need to use for 1st person perspective – I, we, me, my, our.
- Check we have the main events from the story and number in order to remind me to use paragraphs.
- Then we had to write the open paragraph.
Here is my first paragraph:
Gretal and I woke up to fighting. They were at it again, Dad and our new Step Mother were arguing about food and how she thought we all wouldn’t survive. I remembered times when Mum was alive and she would go without so Gretal and I would have enough to eat. I’m sure that was why she got so sick she died, but I couldn’t tell Gretal that.
I found this easy once I put myself in the position of my character.