Family Stories: 5 Interview Activities

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Activity 1 : Project background

Watch the presentation, Write Your Family History Step by Step.
Use the two-column method for taking notes.


Keywords / questions
Write Your Notes Here
Formats
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Tips for writing a compelling history
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Create a timeline



Examples of using fact & family stories
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Oral history



Practice writing exercise



Summary


Activity 2 : Interview preparation


Your interview with a family member should have a driving question or theme.

General example: “What was it like for this relative to be alive in a specific historical and cultural context?”
Specific example: “What was it like for my father to immigrate to Canada from the Philippines in 1975 when he was seventeen?”


Instructions: answer briefly the following questions.

1. What stories does my family have?



2. Who can I interview?



3. What do I do if the person I want to interview is unavailable?



4. What is my driving question or topic (early childhood, teenage years, adulthood) for the interview?



What 10 questions could I ask in my interview?

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What kinds of pictures will work well?



What primary documents can I use?

Post Activities 3, 4, and 5 in your blog one (1) week after you give your oral presentation.

Activity 3: Interview transcription (20 points)

Instructions: Post your recorded interview here, both the French original and the English translation.













Activity 4: Peer Critique (10 points)


Instructions: read the transcript of the English version of the interview of your partner.
Comment on the interview by answering the following questions.
Share your comments with your partner.

1 What do you like most about the interview?

2 What parts do you find the most interesting or intriguing?  In what way do you connect with them?


3  What questions do you have about way the interview unfolds?  
What seems unclear to you about: names, places, chronology of events, conflicts, and
who did what and why?


4  What would you like to learn more about from the family member?


5  Is there any background information that would describe better the characters or help you better
visualize the story?


6  Suggest revisions to the interview to make it read better.  
Can the organization – the order of events for example – be improved?  
Can the sentence structure and vocabulary be improved?


7  In critiquing this interview, what ideas can you take a way to improve your own interview?

Adapted from Back in the day PDF

Activity 5: Revising the interview (10 points)

Instructions: post your revised English version of the interview here. Colour-code the changes you made based on your partner’s critique.
Use RED for editing changes (ordering for example), BLUE for revising sentence structure and vocabulary, and GREEN for changes to grammar, spelling and punctuation.













Post Activities 3, 4, and 5 in your blog one (1) week after you give your oral presentation.

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