Consider how the individual perspectives create conflict amonst the neighbors in The Monsters Are Due on Maple Street and the way in which these conflicts inform the theme of the selection. Write a narrative in which you incorporate details from the teleplay to retell a critical part of the story, such as a single scene, from the point of view of one of the characters within the drama.

Your narrative should include dialogue, description, and details and be from the perspective of only one character in the teleplay. You should choose a scene or scenes that are significant to that character as well as to the plot of the drama itself. Include a reflection in which your character thinks about (or talks about) what role he or she has played in the conflict.

Prewriting: this stage of the writing process involve gathering and selecting ideas; teachers can students in several ways: creating lists, researching, brainstorming,reading to discover more about the author's style, talking, collecting memorabilia or clips from other texts, and free-writingdrafting: in this stage, students begin writing, connecting, and developing ideasrevising: this is the stage of writing that involves rewriting or "re-seeing; " emphasis is place on examining sentence structure, word choice, voice, and organization of the pieceediting: this stage involves checking for style and conventions--spelling, grammar, usage, and punctuationpublishing: the "going public" stage of writingevaluating: in this stage, the writer looks back at his/her work and self-evaluates, and the audience evaluates the effectiveness of the writingwriting activities : personal writing, workplace writing, subject writing, creative writing, persuasive writing, and scholarly writingpeer review: acting a referee; evaluating a colleague's work professionally