How to respond to The Color of Water Creatively?
• Choose a character and pretend to be him/her and follow her through the whole book. Write diaries from his/her point of view retelling or responding to the events happened in the book. • Be a news reporter and turn certain events into news articles. • Collage/text rendering (freewrite in response to a portion of the text and then create a collage, inserting portions of freewrite into the original text) • Rewrite a scene using a different genre, for example, you can turn a very interesting chapter of a novel into a dramatic scene, or a narrative poem; or you can choose a different point of view to retell the story (see lessons on Point of View Writing) • Critical essays on a certain issue in the novel • Respond to James McBride’s writing craft • Research McBride the musician & look for parallels with McBride the writer • Use different literary response approaches, such as psychological, historical and political perspectives, to prove the significance of the work( Read an example) • Yo
