Today I will talk about this immigrant interview project that I started. This is where you write a narrative and a script and then gather some photos to create a video of you narrating your interviewee’s story. 

First, we came up with some questions. When I was coming up with my questions my teacher gave us a list of possible questions so that helped me. Our class also had to put the questions in chronological order because you don’t want to ask your interviewee “ When did you come to America?” and then ask them “ Do you think you will ever go back to your home country?” It will just mess up your conversation. We also learned we should ask open-ended questions so we get more information. For example you could ask “ Do you like it in America?” and just get yes or no OR you could ask “ Do you like it in America? Why or Why not?” If you ask open ended questions it’s helping you so you can have more information for your script/ narrative.

First, we came up with some questions. When I was coming up with my questions my teacher gave us a list of possible questions so that helped me. Our class also had to put the questions in chronological order because you don’t want to ask your interviewee “ When did you come to America?” and then ask them “ Do you think you will ever go back to your home country?” It will just mess up your conversation. We also learned we should ask open-ended questions so we get more information. For example you could ask “ Do you like it in America?” and just get yes or no OR you could ask “ Do you like it in America? Why or Why not?” If you ask open ended questions it’s helping you so you can have more information for your script/ narrative.

That was the first part of my immigrant interview project. Stay tuned for the next part!