| 4. Points of view – creative writing activity
This activity is designed to assist students explore the social context for Ruthie’s story, including the laws and attitudes within the community at the time. Through creative writing, students examine the points of view of the characters identified in the text and use information gathered during the previous activities to inform their writing.
1. Students identify important characters in Ruthie’s story, noting their relationships with each other. After identifying the characters students’ work together to discuss each character’s perspective on the Cherbourg Mission and policies that allowed for the removal of Indigenous children from their families, noting their opinions on the activity sheet provided.
2. Each group should come up with an agreed statement on three of the characters that they have identified as a group.
3. Discuss the agreed statements each group has come up with as a class, noting similarities and differences between each group’s perspectives.
4. After identifying the characters in the text, students work individually to respond to the text through creative writing. A series of scenes from Ruthie’s story have been included on the activity sheet to inspire student writing. However, teachers and students may wish to identify their own scenes from the text to write about.
5. During the writing process teachers should encourage students to engage with others to edit and improve their own writing.
6. Encourage students to share their work with others. Teachers may wish to work with students to create a display, website or publication of their collected stories.
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