Lesson 15 Interviewing Together

1. Lesson 15Interviewing Together Goals: Conduct an interview Summarize, paraphrase, and quote Synthesize answers and create a report of a Q&A interview

2. 1.14: Interviewing Together • Open books to page 56 • Focus: find out about an incident that happened while the person was in high school so you can write about it • You will start by filling in a KWL chart about the person you are interviewing

3. Periods 1, 2, 4: Me. Sorry guys  • Ms. Aiken • Graduated from Edgewood High School in Ellettsville, IN • Member of Mustang Mentors • Member of National Honor Society • Member of Yearbook, editor • Member of show choir, Sophisticated Ladies, president • Member of Academic Super Bowl • Secondary English Education Major at Indiana University • 2nd year teaching at Avon High School • When I was 16, I drove up to Chicago with friends to see Fall Out Boy, Gym Class Heroes, and Plain White T’s in concert…I had only had my license for a couple of months.

4. Period 5: Ms. Amanda Shields • Indiana University Attendee • Informatics Major, Concentration in Music • Sociology Minor • Technical Service Analyst for The President’s Challenge • Consultant Supervisor for UITS (IU’s IT) • Graduated from Edgewood High School in Ellettsville, IN • Member, Nation Honors Society • Member, Student Council • Member, Leadership Academy • Member, Mustang Mentors (Like you AIM mentors) • Member, Key Club • Member, French Club • Member, German Club • Member of all show choirs; President and Dance Captain of two • Member of marching band and pep band • At one point was a Music Education major with intentions to teach and worked at an elementary school! • Won a trophy for best female soloist her senior year.

5. Period 6: ENS Elizabeth Cooper • Ensign with the United States Navy • Second Year Osteopathic Medical Student • Graduated from Indiana University; Majored in Microbiology and Political Science, Minored in Chemistry, Social Science, and Medicine • Graduated from Edgewood High School in Ellettsville, IN • Member of Marching Band • Member of Show Choirs: Sophisticated Ladies, Music Warehouse • Member of Science Academic Bowl • Member of National Honor Society • Was front row at a Panic! At the Disco Concert • Lived in Tennessee before moving to Indiana

6. Period 7: Ms. Britt Liford • Managing Editor for Associated Construction Publications • Graduated from Indiana University • Majored in Journalism, Minored in Creative Writing • Graduated from Edgewood High School in Ellettsville, IN • Member of the Newspaper staff • Member of two show choirs: Sophisticated Ladies and Music Warehouse • A Mustang Mentor (like your AIM mentors) • Senior TA for Elementary schools • Student Council Member • Parents lived in Florida for a year while she stayed in Ellettsville with grandparents • Her family used to have a pack of llamas 

7. Step 2: Questions to Ask • Based on the information provided to you, and knowing what the focus of your group interview is, create a list of three open ended questions to ask.

8. As a Class… • Decide what the best starting question is! • Rules during Interview: • Raise hands to ask a question, and I will call on you. • If you have a follow up question, write it down during the interview and raise your hand. I will mark you down. • Take notes on a separate sheet during the interview

9. Step 3: Note Taking • With your partner, you’ll work together to take notes • One person is in charge of DIRECT QUOTES • Other person in charge of summarizing, INDIRECT QUOTES • Both of you in charge of marking down the questions asked, what the interviewee is doing, what he/she looks like, etc.

10. Step 4 • Now that the interview is over, fill in the “Learned” section of the KWL chart

11. Step 5 • Look back through your notes, and get out two highlighters. • In one color, highlight the questions that begin a new topic or direction in the questioning • In a second color, highlight the questions that follow up on a previous answer • Below your notes, write any follow-up questions that you might have asked, but you didn’t have a chance or just thought of them

12. Step 6 • Evaluate what you learned about the interviewee. Circle the number that corresponds. • 1: I learned a lot about the person • 2: I learned some things, but wanted more • 3: I did not learn very much

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14. Honors: Last 20 Minutes of ClassLit Circles • Get in your groups • Go through discussion • Assign page numbers and roles at end • Two more meetings after this one! • (If we didn’t get through this today, we’ll continue next lesson!)

15. Lesson 16 Continuing Activity 1.14 SSR: 10 minutes until Mr. Beimfohr arrives

16. Mr. Beimfohr (2nd and 6th) • Setting up Office 365 in lab 

17. Page 57 • You need your partner and notes from the interview! • Writing Prompt: Using your notes, write a narrative of the interview on the computer! Try to capture the voice and personality of the interviewee as you retell his or her coming-of-age experience. Following the model of “Bethany Only Looking Ahead,” you can convey the personality of the interviewee by the following methods: • Describing how the interviewee is speaking, acting, and looking • Describing the setting of the interview • Conveying the significance of the vents discussed • Including both direct and indirect quotes Individual writing, but use both sets of notes!

18. Steps to Draft • Start with an introduction on who your interviewee is • Introduce the incident from high school he/she described • Describe and tell the story of that incident in your interviewee’s voice, using direct and indirect quotations • End the story with a quote from your interviewee that best shows the lesson learned, or main idea summarized • Use “Bethany Only Looking Ahead” as a model for your interview narrative draft • When finished, print off and hand in to me! 