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Capstone Interview

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Part of my research was my interview. The interviewee is supposed to be a person who can help you even more than a book, or the internet. I think the interview helped me with my research, and I got a lot of my research from my interview.

When I was figuring out who I should interview, I thought of a person who works at a museum related to the Holocaust, or my Grandma’s friend. I started looking at different museums but I realized I was running out of time for me to complete my interview and I did not think that any of the museums would respond in time. Instead of a museum, I decided that I should ask my Grandma if she knew anyone that survived the Holocaust, or friends that had parents who survived the Holocaust. I asked, and one of my Grandma’s friends, Hy, had parents that survived the Holocaust. Writing the questions was not that challenging, I ended up with 15 questions. 

My interview didn’t go as expected because it ended up being much longer than I thought. When I was conducting my interview I noticed that every time I asked a question I got a lot of information. I think the reason my interview was so long is because I got a lot of details. I learned that in the Novogrudok ghetto 360 people tried to escape, but only about 150 survived. They tried to escape by digging a tunnel to the forest. I also learned that Hy believes that the only way to survive during the Holocaust was to work and help each other. He also believes that very few people survived without help from others.

Overall, I think that I learned a lot from my interview, and it really helped me with my research. Thank you for reading!

Immigration Interview Video

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After I interviewed my Grandma, I made a video on her immigration story, and how she and my Grandpa came to the U.S.

While making the video about my Grandma’s immigration story, I first had to get the personal pictures from my Grandma. After that, I found pictures to match what I was talking about. For example, if I was talking about where my Grandma lived, I would put a picture of a similar place or find a picture of the real place where my Grandma actually lived. Once I put all the pictures in my video, I started to narrate my video, this took a few tries because of background noise. Lastly, I put the music in. When I was writing my script I remembered that I had to tell the story and not make the video in a question/answer format. It was hard to select images that had both a creative commons license and were good quality. A lot of the images I found were not good quality or they didn’t have a creative commons license.

I learned that interviewing someone and then making a video about it is much harder than I thought. I learned that when you interview someone, you have to listen very carefully because you might miss something. I missed a few things and I had to ask my Grandma more questions after the interview because I did not listen carefully. I also learned that when you interview someone you have to ask a lot of questions or ask for a lot of details because when you don’t, you don’t have enough details, and it is very hard to tell the story of that person. By learning these lessons, I found out that my Grandma immigrated to the U.S. because of my Grandpa’s job, and the government at that time.

Overall, I think this project was a good experience and that I learned a lot about my Grandma from this interview project.

Immigrant Interview

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A few weeks ago my teacher told my class that we would be interviewing an adult who immigrated to the U.S. I chose my Grandma to interview, who immigrated to the U.S. from Canada. The final project is to make a video on their immigration story.

When I was making the questions, I first considered the information I already knew about my Grandma. For example, where and when she was born, and where she lived now. I also thought about how my Grandma got to where she is now, and how there were hard and easy parts of the immigration experience. After that I narrowed down my questions from 20 to 14 questions by combining questions and taking out the questions that weren’t as important as all the other questions. One resource that was helpful was a list of questions that my teacher gave my class as sample questions to give some ideas. Another resource that was helpful was a slideshow of interviews with young immigrants from all different countries that came to the U.S. for all different reasons. This was helpful because it showed me some questions that young immigrants were asked and their responses. This resource was also helpful because it showed me some questions, for example, what is your favorite food in the U.S.? is not as important of a question and won’t get as much information as, for example, why did you leave your country?              

My experience doing the interview was good. The interview was in person and went as expected. I learned that you had to be nice and patient because if you scream at them then they won’t want to talk to you. I also learned that you should do your interview in a quiet space so the person you are interviewing feels comfortable. One of the most interesting things I learned about the person that I interviewed was that one of the reasons the person that I interviewed left was not because she had a bad life in Canada but that her husband’s job was in New York City. Another interesting thing I learned was that my Grandma had visited New York before so she was familiar with it.

Overall, in this interview I learned a lot more things, and I will learn more when I make a video on the person who I interviewed. Thank you for reading my blog post!