Perspective Rewrite

Students rewrite the climactic confrontation from Book XII in first-person voice from Turnus’s point of view. The prompt asks writers to capture emotions, reasoning, and internal conflict while remaining faithful to events in the epic. This creative retelling builds narrative voice and empathetic reading. Learners must integrate textual evidence into original prose, demonstrating command of point of view. The lined page scaffolds paragraph development and coherence. The assignment also prepares students for argumentative discussions about justice, mercy, and heroic codes.

Curriculum Matched Skills

English Language Arts – Writing: Narrative Writing (point of view)

English Language Arts – Reading Literature: Character and Point-of-View Analysis

English Language Arts – Writing: Use of Textual Evidence in Original Composition

Social-Emotional Learning – Perspective Taking and Empathy

This worksheet is part of our Aeneid collection.