Posts Tagged ‘Immigration’

09
Apr
2024

categories: 5th Grade, Social Studies

In school we were studying immigrants and we interviewed them. We had to make questions to ask. Then we interviewed them and wrote down the answers to the questions. We then had to make a narrative and turn it into a script. We then timed the script and got our photos. Then we turned it into a video on a platform called WeVideo.

When making the video, first we had to make a script. We had to turn the narrative about the person we interviewed into a script. We had to break up the narrative into little parts up to six seconds. Then we asked our interviewee for some photos of them. When we were creating the video, if we couldn’t find a photo we could also look it up. I really liked making the script and narrating. However, getting all the photos and putting them in was hard.

After finishing the project, I ended up with a lot of information about the person that I interviewed. I learned about how much of a struggle it was to move and the reasons why some people have to move. For my grandma it was because of a revolution and because of what her parents thought of the climate and how the army works. When conducting I had to listen really carefully and take notes on what my interviewee said. When making the video I had to put all  my technology skills and the things that I learned about my interviewee all together.

In conclusion, this project was a super fun way to learn about our friends and families past and learn about immigrants. It was challenging at some times and easier at others. It was an amazing project.

 

27
Mar
2024

Immigration Interview Reflection

categories: 5th Grade, Writing

For this project we found a family member or a friend that immigrated and made sure that they are an adult. We wrote down questions to ask them then we interviewed them. After we wrote a narrative about them and made it into a script.

While preparing for the interview, we had to make questions to ask our interviewee. I found it really helpful to go to the websites that our teachers assigned for us that had sample questions. When creating the questions I had to make sure that they weren’t yes or no questions. I had to change a lot of mine or add a question like why? Or describe. To make the questions get more of an answer from the interviewee. We had to come up with fifteen questions to ask. It was easy coming up with the first five or ten questions but then it got harder because I had to start getting really creative.

I interviewed my grandma over the phone. I couldn’t do it in person because she lives in Canada! It was super interesting learning about her because she has such a crazy story. When on the call conducting the interview I learned to really engage with the interviewee. Like I didn’t ask about if she had any toys but since I seemed interested (and I was) she told me about this toy whose head got cut off so they could put money and jewelry in there.

Overall, the interview was super interesting and I loved learning about all the interesting facts. I liked preparing, interviewing and writing the narrative and script.