MAIN CONCEPT:

Students observe a model interview between an interviewer and an interviewee.

OBJECTIVES:

• To help the students feel more comfortable with the interview process, and to learn how it is done.
• To help the students become familiar with note-taking, and practice asking questions.
• To help the students enhance their listening, oral and written skills.
• To help the students understand the final project.

• Computer, modem, CD-ROM, a telecommunications network providing access to the World Wide Web, and a bookmark for Oral History sites
• Word Processing Software
• CD-ROM (such as Grolier's Encyclopedia)
• Journals for students to record information
• Tape recorder and tapes

1. Two persons model the interview process.

2. Following the model interview students are allowed time to ask questions about the interview process which they just observed.

1. Students interview a teacher or a volunteer to practice what they have just observed. They first write down ten questions that they would like to ask. Take notes during the interview, and then write their teacher's responses to their questions. Several students may interview the same teacher at the same time. Each student writes down only the teacher's responses to their own questions.

2. Students decide who they would like to interview for their oral history project, and prepare questions to ask during that interview.