1. WEEK THREE SLIDES

2. Choice reading Interviewing Techniques
AGENDA
Choice reading
Interviewing Techniques

4. TYPE-ONE WRITING
During the next 60 seconds, list at least 10 effective techniques for conducting a good interview.
Star the techniques that you might incorporate in your interview.

5. KATIE COURIC
Show youtube video clip of Katie Couric’s tips for interviewing:

6. TURN TALK
With your partner, discuss and list in your notebook the techniques that Katie Couric suggests.
How do her suggestions intersect with Oprah’s techniques?
Explain what intersect means – put Venn Diagram up on board to help students highlight the style of each.

7. Katie Couric Ellen Degeneres Jay Leno Your Name
Students should organize their notes in this way to describe the styles of interviewing of these four.

8. KATIE COURIC IN ACTION
Find a political/pop culture interview - DOES SHE FOLLOW HER OWN ADVICE?

9. ELLEN DEGENERES
SELENA GOMEZ WHO HAD JUST BROKEN UP WITH JUSTIN BEEBER: WHAT IS ELLEN’S STYLE? HOW DOES SHE DRAW SELENA OUT?

10. JAY LENO

11. WHAT IS YOUR STYLE?
In a well-developed paragraph, explain an interview technique that would work for you.

12. Choice Reading Writing Good Questions Body Language
AGENDA
Choice Reading
Writing Good Questions
Body Language

14. WRITING GOOD QUESTIONS
Warm up with “chit-chat”
Use an interviewee comment to begin the questioning
Avoid yes/no questions
Do you…
Will you…

15. HOW DOES IT WORK?
Ask for volunteer to be interviewed. This student should go out in the hallway while you prep the class on body language and what you can observe from that. Include information about mimicking body language.

16. CONSTRUCTING REMEMBERING Visual Construct Visual Recall Auditory
Internal
Dialogue
Emotions
(placing ourselves
back in a place)

17. GENDER BRAIN SCANS REVEAL
PARTS OF THE CORPUS CALLOSUM ARE 23% WIDER IN WOMEN (ENHANCES WOMEN’S PERFORMANCE IN CERTAIN COMMUNICATION SKILLS)

18. GENDER
FEMALES ARE BETTER AT READING THE EMOTIONS OF PEOPLE IN PHOTOGRAPHS
MALES EXCEL AT ROTATING 3-DIMENSIONAL OBJECTS IN THEIR HEADS
FEMALES ARE BETTER AT PROCESSING EMOTION AND COGNITION SIMUTANEOUSLY (THIS TASK MAY IMPAIR VISUAL-SPACIAL TASKS, SUCH AS MAP READING)

19. MORE ON GENDER MEN LISTEN WITH DIFFERENT PARTS OF THE BRAIN
WOMEN LISTEN WITH THE “WHOLE BRAIN”
WOMEN LISTEN EQUALLY WITH BOTH EARS
MEN FAVOR THE RIGHT EAR

20. GENDER FACTS
MEN TALK TO ESTABLISH INDEPENDENCE AND STATUS AND TO REPORT INFORMATION
WOMEN TALK TO ESTABLISH INTIMACY AND RELATIONSHIP

21. GENDER IN FACULTY MEETINGS
MEN TALK MORE OFTEN AND FOR LONGER PERIODS OF TIME
WOMEN PLAY DOWN THEIR EXPERTISE
WOMEN ARE MORE AUDITORY – ASK MORE QUESTIONS AND GIVE MORE LISTENING RESPONSES

22. SOCIOLINGUIST DEBORAH TANNEN
WOMEN FEEL IT IS NATURAL TO TALK WITH SOMEONE BEFORE MAKING A DECISION
MEN VIEW CONSULTING AS TANTAMOUNT TO ASKING PERMISSION – MEN STRIVE FOR INDEPENDENCE; THEY MAY FIND IT DIFFICULT TO CONSULT
Tannen, D. You Just Don’t Understand: Men and Women in
Conversation. New York: Ballantine Books, 1990.

23. SAMPLE QUESTIONS
What would it feel like to have your mouth stuffed with marbles?
How can we know when you are telling the truth?
What is really disgusting to you?
What would it take to get you to lie?
What is the earliest memory you have?
Why in the world did you put that on this morning?

24. MIMICRY

25. IMPROMPTU INTERVIEW

26. Live Interview: Welcome Mr. Charity!
AGENDA
Live Interview:
Welcome Mr. Charity!
Writing notes immediately after the interview – this must be turned in!

27. Mr. Charity’s WHAT DID YOU NOTICE? Comfort level Body language Mimicry
Expression
Students should write this down in notebook and then talk to each other – if ready, they might just want to launch into a full class discussion. Take notes on the board as they bring up ideas.

28. WRITING IT DOWN During the interview Focus on answers
Write only what you need for spelling
After the interview
Don’t wait! Write like crazy!
At this point, take the time and write what you would note about the interview – save to pull up later

29. WRITING GOOD QUESTIONS
How will you begin your interview?
What do you already know about your interviewee?
In your composition book, make a list of possible questions you could ask your interviewee

30. Choice Reading Telling a Good Story
AGENDA
Choice Reading
Telling a Good Story
How to take an interview idea and turn it into a story. What do you say? Use Frank McCourt’s excerpt about writing. Take a situation that happened in the halls anytime this fall – write a story about it without any dialogue – simply summarize what happened. Then take it and add some dialogue – notice how it comes alive.

31. Choice reading

32. WRITING IT DOWN Narrative form Beginning, middle, end
Description, dialogue
Humorous, serious
Truthful, respectful
Read story to students – what is the beginning, middle, end? What is the best part (description, dialogue)? How does it make it come alive? What is the tone (humorous, serious)? What words help you know that? Show Trevor’s spoken word poem – what is his story? How could you tell his story? Interview Trevor for narrative? Decision about how to teach?

33. Choice Reading Descriptions and Sensory Detail
AGENDA
Choice Reading
Descriptions and Sensory Detail
Work on how to include description in the narrative. Continue writing about Dion Charity. Add descriptive passages about his story. Next week work on model sentences!

35. GREAT DESCRIPTIONS

36. WHAT DO YOU THINK?
Today focus on dialogue only – have students read a story with good dialogue