WEEK THREE SLIDES

Choice reading Interviewing Techniques AGENDA Choice reading Interviewing Techniques

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.

KATIE COURIC Show youtube video clip of Katie Couric’s tips for interviewing: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4eOynrI2eTM

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.

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.

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

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

JAY LENO

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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)

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

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

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

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.

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?

MIMICRY

IMPROMPTU INTERVIEW

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

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.

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

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

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.

Choice reading

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?

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!

GREAT DESCRIPTIONS

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