This worksheet was created to pair with some SEL with an ELA activity. However, it can stand alone as a simple SEL reflective lesson, creative writing start or to teach about using speech in writing.

Students are asked to choose a problem and take on the perspective of three people (or, if you'd like, animals/objects for personification fun). They then interview those three perspectives about the problem and fill in the table. I'd recommend they do so digitally, but you can easily print it and have them hand write.

A great next step for writing would be to turn the interviews into mini chapters, focusing on how to add quotes. Also, you could have everyone write from three different perspectives on the same issue and then they could vote on who is correct. The obvious answer is truly that it is very complicated, and that when we approach problems we need to understand there are many views, opinions and understandings to take into account.

An example of the completed table as well as several problem/perspective ideas have been included.