In the Time of the Butterflies

["Stephanie Galvani" <stephaniegalvani@hotmail.com>]

Help - I'm a bit stuck and need some guidance.

I have a student who is a very, very bright girl (8th grade) who tends to go 
way beyond what I ask of her.  I want to give her an alternative assignment 
while the rest of the class works on skills she has already mastered; we are 
looking at about two weeks - or seven lessons.  She recently finished In the 
Time of the Butterflies, and I want to have her "do something" (awful 
expression, I know) with it, preferably that minimizes paragraph-and-essay 
writing and maximizes other kinds of expression.  The reason she is doing 
this alternative assignment is that I want her to nurture some of her other 
skills, not just her nonfiction writing abilities; her seatmate claims she 
is very creative, although she demurs about this.  Off the top of your 
heads, does anyone have a creative idea I could pick up and run with.  I am 
feeling very dull and need a jump-start.

Thanks so much,
Stephanie

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