Project Exchange
ACTIVITY: Interview Skills (Interview Process)
Project: The Immigrant's Song
SUMMARY
Goals
Review interview skills, develop interview questions
Details
Duration: 60 minutes
Assessments: Student discussions, Student writing
Description
1. This handout served as a guide to help the student conduct an interview. Students were expected to extract an interesting story from their interviewee. In addition, it gave students the basics of interview etiquette and how to create meaningful interview questions.
2. An additional activity that we asked the students to do to get underneath "good interviewing tecniques" was to have them role play as an interviewer and an interviewee.
**It should be noted that students were required to tape (audio) their interview. They used the recording for their Flash project and to make sure that they did not forget any important details.
ACTIVITY RESOURCES
(e.g. rubrics, examplars, websites, etc.)
Interview skills
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REFLECTIONS & COMMENTS
Author Reflections
This process was important because it showed that students needed to be listening to the interviewee so they could ask important follow-up questions.
ALL PROJECT ACTIVITIES
- "The Immigrant's Song" Project Launch
- Models of "good" and "bad" monologues (Monologue Writing Process)
- Reading an Oral HIstory/Interview (Monologue Writing Process)
- Interview Skills (Interview Process)
- After the Interview Fact Extraction (Interview Process)
- Literary/Narrative Elements Mini-Lessons (Monologue Writing Process)
- Peer Review (Monologue Writing Process)
- The Rubric (Monologue Writing Process)
- Performance Requirements (The Exhibition)
- Performance Checklist (The Exhibition)
- Digital Design Overview (The Exhibition)
- Final Reflection