Rewriting

One of my favorite assignments, which we ended up doing several times for different stories, was rewriting scenes from what we read in modern terms. It was always fun to rewrite a scene that, in its original form, was difficult to read and even more difficult to understand. Since we generally did that kind of activity in groups, I always loved hearing what everyone came up with. They were always very different, and definitely hilarious, and it was amazing to see how many different ways the class could write one scene. That's yet another bit of evidence that many of the things we read are still completely applicable to today, if you can look past the time period and the language it was written in. It is not too difficult to put a modern spin on the themes that we read and to come up with a whole new piece of writing which still tells the exact same story.