Maribeth+Dann

I am working on a project for juniors and seniors. I want them to get out in the community to interview community members about the education system in Hermann before 1955.

I wonder if you could use the ranking tool to determine the most valuable topics to include in your interviews? (Anne Jeschke)

EQ: How can one live beyond one’s time?

UQ: How does community history affect today’s community values? How are citizens of Hermann an inspiration beyond their time?

CQ: What makes a good interview? What was it like to be a child in Hermann before 1955? What is the history of the customs that we observe in Hermann? What customs have fallen to the wayside in Hermann? How is being a child in Hermann in the early part of the 2000s different than being a child in the early 1900s? **Carla: Keep developing your thoughts here. We will provide ideas and input to help you work through it.**

I plan to use the VR early in my unit. After doing research and coming up with possible community members to interview, as a class we will populate VR with these names. The students can then work in pairs to rank the individuals from the individuals who would lead to the best interview to the one who would maybe not interview to well. We can then go out to conduct the interivews based on these rankings.

Seeing Reason--I really want my kids to think about what will make a great finished product. This will allow them to take some time to think about what they want to do for interviewing, editing, sharing of projects, etc. I like the idea of having students organize their thinking on what will really make a good finished product- and being able to show the strength of the relationships would be especially helpful- i.e. visual aspects will increase quality a little, good content will increase quality a lot! Would be a good way to talk about questions like "Which of these areas should you focus on first?" etc. ~ Liz **
 * Have you thought about what your prompt might be? Carla

Showing Evidence--We will be able to submit four of our interviews to the StoryCorps project. Hopefully we will have 15 or more interviews to choose from. I plan to let the kids decide which interviews should go further with this tool. The students would have to evaluate each interview and come up with evidence about which one they think is the best for our stated goals.