Description
This community interview project is perfect for practicing interviewing skills and teaching students how to conduct an interview! Includes a slideshow lesson, interview graphic organizers, and an editable rubric. Based on the “Humans of New York” project, students will write articles after conducting interviews with partners within the school community! Suitable for online learning with digital worksheets for Google Classroom®.
Included with this Community Interview Project:
- “Humans of My School” Slideshow Lesson – Microsoft PowerPoint® and Google Slides®
- Explore Brandon Stanton’s interview project, “Humans of New York”
- Teach interviewing skills and the interview process
- Model interview questions for students to use during their interview project
- “Humans of My School” Guided Note – Digital & Print
- Interview Outline Graphic Organizer – Digital & Print
- Scaffold the interview process
- Use the W5-H Framework to prepare interview questions
- Narrative Summary Graphic Organizer – Digital & Print
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- Use the W5-H Framework to write a summary of interview
- 4-Level Interview Project Rubric – Editable & Ready-to-Print
- Teacher Instructions for using this resource
How to use this Community Interview Project:
This Community Interview Project is based on Brandon Stanton’s famous photography project, “Humans of New York.” Students will learn about the interviewing process and how to conduct an interview within your school community. They will also write a narrative summary to capture the story of the person that they interview.
You can begin this lesson with the “Humans of My School” Slideshow Lesson. This lesson is formatted for both Microsoft PowerPoint® and Google Slides®. Students will explore Brandon Stanton’s interview project, “Humans of New York,” including his interview process for capturing meaningful stories. They will also learn about the interview process, including how to introduce their Community Interview Project and how to conduct themselves respectfully, in order to conduct their own interviews.
This slideshow lesson also includes interview question examples in order to model the interview process to students.
As you work through the lesson with your students, they can fill out the corresponding Guided Note. This guided note template prompts students to make note of important information from the slideshow lesson. They will also have space to answer the inquiry-based questions within the slideshow; you can have students fill out their answers before consolidating them as a class with the information provided in the lesson.
Students can then conduct their interview using the Interview Outline Graphic Organizer provided. This graphic organizer will have students introduce themselves, brainstorm potential questions, conclude their interview, and request a photograph for their project. It also utilizes the W5-H Framework (who, what, when, where, why, and how) to engage in meaningful conversation during the interview process, which is essential for a strong Community Interview Project.
To scaffold writing, this resource also includes a narrative summary graphic organizer. This graphic organizer will help students organize the information from their interview in order to capture a story in the style of “Humans of New York.”
A 4-level rubric for the interview process has also been provided for assessment purposes. This rubric is also provided in editable and ready-to-print formats to meet the unique needs of your classroom when evaluating the final Community Interview Project.
✨ Kindly note that due to copyright restrictions, this resource is not editable. This is a common practice within the online marketplace in order to protect the clipartists and software providers that have authorized their intellectual property for the development of this resource.
See what other teachers are saying about this Community Interview Project:
“This was a very engaging (but still challenging!) activity to wind up the year with last spring–my students interviewed members of the school community before they “graduated” and moved on to the high school. It was a perfect farewell project for them and gave them opportunities to practice so many standards that are valuable not only in ELA, but in life–like listening, asking follow-up questions, paying attention to someone’s story, showing respect for varied backgrounds and experiences, etc. It is definitely one I’ll turn to again!”
– Nancy M.
⭒ For classrooms utilizing Google Classroom® ⭒
To access the digital version of these worksheets, simply follow the instructions within the resource to copy the files directly to your Google Drive®.
