Writing from Another Perspective

As we have been reading My Brother Sam we have discussed a lot about the main character Tim's perspective on the war and his family's involvement.  Today we started a writing assignment where the students chose an event from the book to tell from the first hand perspective of a different character.  This is a great chance for the students to work on writing in the first person point of view and experience some of the process the author goes through when trying to convey the feelings of a character.  We will be working on this more in the coming days and I am looking forward to seeing the wonderful growth in our class' writing ability as they work through the writing process.