1. Unit V Lesson III: Slow Way Home Chapter 15

2. For teacher In this lesson, students will use 15 random interview questions in gathering information from their partners for writing an expository essay, “An Interesting Guy/Girl.” Teacher will Xerox and distribute questions to be used for interviews. Teacher will interview a student also and then model brainstorming and drafting an essay based on this information. Essays will be drafted in class.

3. Sunshine State Standards: New Generation Standard 2: Informative

4. Benchmark LA 4.2.2 student will record information and ideas from primary and/or secondary sources accurately and coherently, noting the validity and reliability of these sources and attributing sources of information;

5. and 4.2.3 The student will write informational/expository essays that speculate on the causes and effects of a situation, establish the connection between the postulated causes or effects, offer evidence supporting the validity of the proposed causes or effects, and include introductory, body, and concluding paragraphs

6. 4.2.2 and 3 Interview a classmate and write a newspaper feature story about him/her.

7. Read Aloud Chapter 15 Predict what is going to happen between Mama and Kane

8. Interviewing your classmates Now, you are going to interview one another.

9. Interview Game Divide class between boys and girls. Boys will work in pairs (two boys per group) Girls will work in groups of three (three girls per group)

10. Give each group a set of 15 cards To play the game: Students have twenty minutes to ask each other some, or all of the 15 questions. The purpose of the game is to get enough information about the person you are interviewing to be able to write an interesting news story about him or her.

11. Jot down notes On the information that seems most interesting.

12. Teacher Model Your teacher will now share the notes she collected on the person she interviewed. She will tell you how she might take these notes and write a story entitled, “An Interesting Girl” or “An Interesting Guy” about this person.

13. Teacher model Your teacher will show you her preferred brainstorming technique based on her individual learning style. She may use a list, she may free write, she may cluster, or do a graphic organizer, or some other brainstorming technique.

14. Students Brainstorm As you watch your teacher brainstorm, begin brainstorming your own essay, “An interesting Girl or Guy” based on the information you gathered as you interviewed your partner.

15. Draft your Story After brainstorming for about ten minutes, spend another 20 minutes writing as much as you can think of for a story entitled, “An Interesting Guy” or “An Interesting Girl” about the person you just interviewed.

16. Homework Work on your story. See how interesting you can make your partner sound! Bring your story to class tomorrow ready to be revised and then edited.