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04 "Conducting Your Interview!" (Great Thanksgiving Listen)

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Lesson Four: Conducting Your Interview!

Objectives: In this lesson, you will use learn how you to record your interview, and what will be expected of you to complete this project.
  • You will be conducting this interview over the holiday break.
  • Remember to make a plan with your recording partner in advance.

Ways to Record Your Interview:

***Note: Interview can be in Spanish or another language. You do not need to translate it***

1) The Story Corps App for iPhone or Android (Link)

2) StoryCorps Connect through Computer (Link)

3) Voice Memo app for iPhone (Link)

4) Use any other recording app

OR

5) Just WRITE DOWN THE RESPONSES onto paper.

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Reflection: After conducing your interview, write a brief reflection about the experience using one or more of these prompts:

  • How did your partner react to the interview experience? How did you feel as an interviewer?
  • What challenges or surprises did you encounter, and how did you work to address them?
  • Did you have the chance to go “off script” and ask a follow-up question? If so, what question did you ask, and how did that change your interview?
  • What question evoked a particularly memorable response?
  • What did you learn that changed the way you previously thought about an event, person, or your recording partner?
  • What would you do differently if you were to conduct another interview?
  • Who else in your life would you like to interview? Why?

Here are some ways you can express yourself artistically for this project:

  • Create a color poster illustrating a moment from a story your family member told you.
  • Create a multi-panel color storyboard or comic strip illustrating a story your family member told you.
  • Write a 1-2 page poem inspired by your family member’s interview.
  • Write a multi-page narrative inspired by your family member’s interview.
  • Create a shoebox diorama inspired by your family member’s interview.
  • Make a flipbook animation.
  • Pixilart.com or Pixilart app (Link)
  • Powtoon.com
  • Adobe Spark App (Link)
  • Minecraft
  • Legos!
  • Or another artistic idea you have (must be approved by Advisor).