Interviewing: Lessons Learned.

• Make sure that your audience is being serious...or not
• Make sure you pick people who could answer your question
• Thinking on feet...if questions you have planned aren’t enough, know what to do next.
• Be willing to following the questions...but to a point.  On the fly.
• Have a manageable amount of questions.  Be concise.
• Considerate of the other person’s time.
• Give questions before you go to the interview.
• Scheduled meetings ahead of time.

Personality profile--a person with a unique story to tell:

• DR: Ms. Varela “She’s not from around here!”
• Why she came to the US.
• All the languages she knows
• JM: Chandler Vincent, #1 runner
• How he got to be a #1
• Not always interested in running, didn’t start until a freshmen.
• HM: Laurie-the-musical-lady
• Mom of a student, just moved here lately
• Family seems interesting!
• AS: Step-grandfather, musical theater
• Macy’s commercials
• Voice recordings
• Teacher
• Moved around

-LS: Virginia Fullagar

• Tu-tu-Tuesdays
• Circus
• Loves French

-RD: DAD!

• Travel ME-NY everyweek
• Work and family

-JB: Simon Skold

• Lived in Palestine; lived there a year? Bias into world conflicts.
• Wants to be a director
• Traveled across the country on a bike

-JP: GRANDFATHER!

• Best gardener EVER!
• Veggies, specializes in carrots & beans

-HS: ???

Finishing NPR projects, Blog reflection, Personality profiles

• Finish listening to NPR style projects
• Homework due: three ideas on who to interview
• Personality Profiles
• Hearst Journalism Awards: The Hearst Journalism Awards Program, was founded in 1960, to provide support, encouragement, and assistance to journalism education at the college and university level. The program awards scholarships to students for outstanding performance in college-level journalism, with matching grants to the students' schools.
• Links to Hearst Journalism Award Winners: Visit the section marked Personality/Profile.  Feel free to look at other years as well. Read 2-3 different personality profiles.
• With a partner, discuss (and write down so you remember!)/be prepared to talk about with the class:
• 1. How is a personality/profile different from an article you would read on the front page of a newspaper?
• 2. How did the writer hook you in the first paragraph?
• 3.  If we create a rubric in order to assess a quality personality profile, what elements would we need to assess? (EX: what categories would go down the left-hand side of the rubric).  

Personality Profiles and finishing NPR projects

1. Opening Moment: Hailey
2. Moving onto Personality Profiles!
1. Read article: In High School and Alone in Homeless Shelter
• Blog Post:
• Who is the main person in this article?
• What details, anecdotes, and other accounts illustrate this person's personality?
• What overall impression do you get of this person from this article? Which details give you this impression?
• Why do you think this article was published in the New York Times?
• If you had conducted this interview, what would be some of the questions you would have asked...keep in mind the sensitive nature of this topic.
3. Listening to NPR projects!
4. Homework: Consider who might make an interesting interview subject and why.  Create a list of three potential interviewees. Write a paragraph about each person and why they would be worth interviewing.  Think about peers, teachers, coaches, administrators, family friends, or other members of the community.  Post to your blog.  

10 Questions for Part III

• Opening Moment: Lilly
• Project Outline if you need it (emailed before)
• 10 open-ended questions for Part III of your project--> show Ms. P when done
• Conduct any interviews, in school, that will help you on Part II
• Research interesting facts and type up introduction for Part I

Due next Thursday, October 23rd 

Garage Band & Interviewing

1. Opening Moment: Demetrius
2. Mrs. Hogan visits! Garage Band info:
1. Cutting
2. Rearranging
3. Adding music 
4. Fading music
3. Interviewing 
1. fly swatter game
4. Create 10 questions for your own interview
5. Email/call/arrange for your interview (Part III is 3 mins total)

NPR Project Deadline: Next Wednesday, October 22nd

GarageBand and Blog Entry

1. Opening Moment: Jake
2. Discuss NPR report:
• Next time you will be polling the public...how will you approach people?
• An interview guide brainstormed by you
• Open-ended question...will it elicit a variety of responses?
• Trying out Garage Band. Practice your questions and recording skills in class.
3. Read article: "Against All Odds, A Beautiful Life" and consider the following:

1. Who is the main subject of this article?
2. What details, anecdotes and accounts from other people illustrate the subject’s personality?
3. What overall impression do you have of Maurice Mannion-Vanover from the article? What gives you that impression?
4. Why do you think this article was published in The New York Times?
5. If you were to write a more in-depth profile or obituary for Maurice Mannion-Vanover, which details from this article would you include? What additional information would you need to find out? Which people do you think you would interview to get this information? 

4. Due next class: Final draft college/narrative essay

Blog Post, TedTalk, College Essay

1. Opening Moment: Hannah 

2. Ted Talk: Vote

3. Using the narrative rubric to assess college essays. Pick one to assess with your partner (fates decided at lunch...):

• Josh and Jake
• Julia and Lilly
• Pam and Nichole
• Demetrius and Joey
• Faith and Wynne
• Hannah and Asher
• Nate and Peter
• Ramsey and Hailey

3.  BLOG POST: 
Carefully curating a limited set of objects has lately become a popular way for museums and historians to tell vast histories (e.g., the history of the world, or of America). After all, artifacts can help us visualize the past and see complex events as something tangible or relatable.

We can use the same approach to tell our personal histories as well. A sentimental T-shirt, a kindergarten drawing or a dog-eared book? What objects tell the story of your life?

Read the Sunday Review Article “Object Lessons in History” and answer the following questions on your blog.

— What objects tell the story of your life? Can you identify five or 10 objects that you would include in an exhibit or book about your life?

— Why did you select each of those objects?

— Do you think telling history through objects is a “a clever way to hook people on history”? Do objects tell a story that words or images aren’t able to convey quite as effectively?

Metaphorically Speaking; NPR projects; College Essay

1. Leaving the room protocol--NEW!
2. Opening Moment: Joey
3. Bouba or Kiki?
1. Ubiquitous = ?
2. Metaphorically Speaking TEDtalk 
4. NPR Project Form
1. Pick a partner (or work alone)
2. Outline your project using the form.
5. Work on your college essay or peer edits
6. Final drafts of essay: Due October 9th (Thursday)

NPR Project Link