LESSON 15
INTERVIEWING
TOGETHER
Goals:
Conduct an interview
Summarize, paraphrase, and
quote
Synthesize answers and create a
report of a Q&A interview
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
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.
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.
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
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 
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.
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
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.
Step 4
• Now that the interview is over, fill in
the “Learned” section of the KWL chart
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
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
•
Honors: Last 20 Minutes of Class
Lit 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!)
LESSON 16
Continuing Activity 1.14
SSR: 10 minutes until Mr.
Beimfohr arrives
Mr. Beimfohr (2nd and 6th)
• Setting up Office 365 in lab 
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!
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! 