Interview

Overview
In this lesson students will learn the different effects of the disaster, engage in survivor and reporter role play, and learn how to pose open-ended questions in order to conduct an effective interview.

Objective

 * Students will:**
 * 1) Write five questions that require critical thinking to answer.
 * 2) Evaluate and revise these five questions in a peer group, so that they elicit interesting and important answers.
 * 3) Act as "reporters" and conduct an interview by asking and transcribing answers to their interview questions.
 * 4) Act as "survivors" and answer interview questions with factual accounts of the disaster.
 * 5) Write a question/answer format interview using their questions and "survivor" answers.
 * 6) Use a on line program to create a newspaper article to publish their interviews.

Directions


 * Day 1**


 * Step 1:** Imagine you are reporter from the year 1912. You have just been given the opportunity of a lifetime. Your editor has asked you to be waiting on the docks in New York when the //Carpathia// arrives on the evening of April 17th. You will be given the chance to interview a //Titanic// passenger who has survived the disaster. There is one catch: you can only ask five questions. If you ask good questions and get good responses for your interview, your boss will put your interview on the front page and give you a big promotion. If you ask questions that aren't important or have obvious answers, you'll be fired and you'll have no way to support your family.


 * Step 2:** Before you begin drafting your questions, you will need to select a name for your newspaper real or fictional.


 * Step 3:** You and a partner (who will be the passenger) will draft your interview questions on paper along with the answers. I recommend you come up with seven to ten questions initially so you can narrow them down to the best five. Then picked the best 5 questions. Together answer the questions as if you were a surviving passenger from the Titanic. The passenger will be given a ticket to complete as if it were the ticket they purchased to board the Titanic. Make sure you turn those in to the teacher before leaving.


 * Day 2: Interview Day!**
 * Step 1:** You and your partner will click on the picture below to create the newspaper article from the day before. When you have finished typing the article you will save the article in Mrs. Jarrett's folder found on the V-Drive named Titanic Period 3/4. You will be given 25 minutes to complete this activity. When you have finished this task, the groups will go back to their seats. You and your partner will come to the front of the class to share your article.

Student copy Below:

How to write a good article!





Teacher copy: