Title: Letter Activity
Course: J.R.R. Tolkien's The Hobbit

Write a letter in the first-person point of view.

The Task
Assume the voice of a character on the adventure. Write a letter home using first person point of view describing your experiences, feelings and thoughts.

The Process

1. Choose your character and consider their personality and the trials and events that have occurred in the novel up to the point you are writing from.
2. List 10-15 adjectives that the character (or you may borrow from other characters) used to describe their emotions. Write these in your workbooks.
3. Decide which scene in the novel you will write about. Review that part of the novel.
4. List or summarise the scene. Include characters, their injuries, setting, plot, etc.
5. Assume the voice of a character.
6. Write a letter to your family in which you discuss your experiences, emotions, thoughts, etc.
7. In the letter, structure ideas logically, support assertions (e.g., appeal to logic through reasoning; appeal to emotion), defend positions with evidence, and address readers' concerns.

How You Will Be Marked
Your persuasive letter must include the following and will be evaluated on other elements of persuasive writing:

* be in the first-person point of view.
* follow friendly letter format: - include date - include greeting - include salutation
* discuss the experiences, emotions, thoughts of the character.
* structure ideas logically, support assertions (e.g., appeal to logic through reasoning; appeal to emotion), defend positions with evidence, and address readers' concerns.
* accurately portray events in the novel (You are not telling a new story. You are just telling it from a different perspective).
* be approximately 1 page.
* be neat, in ink or typed, and easy to read. Optional: You may want to include a picture or drawing in your letter. You may print images from web sites, draw original pictures, copy from novels, or cut from magazines.