Feature Story Brainstorm
1. Who is your main subject?
My main subject is going to be is going to be my aunt beth.
2. Supporting interviews (who else do you need to talk to, minimum 2
other people)?
My supporting interviews are going to be my dad, and my aunt
kat.
3. What is the topic or potential topic?
How our home-life, school, eat. has evolved over time.
4. Which angle from above will you write the story?
Historical Feature
5. Then to help you get going faster, come up with 20 questions that you
can ask your
main subject.
My main subject is going to be is going to be my aunt beth.
2. Supporting interviews (who else do you need to talk to, minimum 2
other people)?
My supporting interviews are going to be my dad, and my aunt
kat.
3. What is the topic or potential topic?
How our home-life, school, eat. has evolved over time.
4. Which angle from above will you write the story?
Historical Feature
5. Then to help you get going faster, come up with 20 questions that you
can ask your
main subject.
Type these in your blog.
- What was it like when you where around 10 years old?
- Can you remember a significant moment in your childhood that
stood out to you?
stood out to you?
- What was middle school like for you?
- Was anyone mean to you during middle/high school, were you
ever bullied?
ever bullied?
- Did your school have cliques?
- How do you remember the school work being at that time?
- What were your grades during school?
- Can you remember any significant time that you got in trouble
in school?
in school?
- Was your school well-rated or poorly-rated?
- What was your house held like?
- Was there ever any issues at your home?
- Would you have called yourself a troubled kid, or not?
- Were you poor, well off, or rich?
- Describe the place you lived when you were younger.
- What was your relationship with your parents at the age of 10.
- If there was something that was to be a distraction to you what
was it?
was it?
6. Once you complete that portion, you need to come up with 5-10 questions
you need to ask your supporting interviews. Type these into your blog. You
may need different questions for each supporting subject.
- What was it like when you where around 10 years old?
you need to ask your supporting interviews. Type these into your blog. You
may need different questions for each supporting subject.
- What was it like when you where around 10 years old?
- Can you remember a significant moment in your childhood that
stood out to you?
stood out to you?
- What was middle school like for you?
- Was anyone mean to you during middle/high school, were you
ever bullied?
ever bullied?
- Did your school have cliques?
- How do you remember the school work being at that time?
- What were your grades during school?
- Was there ever any issues at your home?
- Would you have called yourself a troubled kid, or not?
- Were you poor, well off, or rich?
- Describe the place you lived when you were younger.
8. Write when you plan to conduct the interview(s)?
Sometime during Thanksgiving Break
9. Where you will interview them?
Sometime during Thanksgiving Break
9. Where you will interview them?
I am going over to my aunt's so probably there.
10. How will you record the information?
10. How will you record the information?
I plan to take notes, and also use a recording device.
A- I see all good questions that could be answered in great depth
ReplyDeleteB- Do you notice any changes from my experience or school and your experience of school? and What did you and your friends do when you hung out?
C- When did you know what you wanted to be when you grew up?
D- You could talk to your mom about her experience with school or you could talk to grandparents.
1. The audience is someone who wants to know how the world has changed over the past couple years.
2. The writer's main point is the find many differences about the way their life is and the way their family member's lives were at the time.
3. The question that interests me the most is: Was your school well rated or poorly rated? This interests me because if their school was poorly rated it could explain the answers to the other questions.
4. I would like more explanation on the question: What was middle school like for you? This is just a generic question and I think that she could just respond with good and that would be one question that was used up.
5. I do not find any question unclear
(Have fun writing!)
A. How many open and closed-ended questions are there?
ReplyDeleteThe questions are interesting good but you might want to add on to them so that they don't end in a yes or no, or a one word answer. I think I saw about half and half for this
B. What are two questions the author could ask their main source?
1. How did your childhood effect how your adult life turned out?
2. What do you regret from your childhood, if anything?
C. What is one question the author could ask their supporting sources?
1. How might your experiences have been different from the aunt?
D. Who else could the author interview?
Maybe you could also interview this aunt's parents to get their perspective on how they were growing up.
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1. Who is the audience and what is the purpose?
The audience is someone interested to see how childhood experiences might affect how you grow up and the purpose is to tell that story.
2. What is the author's main point?
The main point is to find out more about that family members history.
3. What part of the questions interests you?.
I liked the part of the questions about how their school was different because it could be an interesting part of the story.
4. Where should the author add more detail? Less detail?
They could be a little more detail in the questions but other than that it was good
5. Did you find any questions unclear or confusing?
All of the questions are clear.
a- I think the only question that could be somewhat closed-ended is Were you poor, well off, or rich? Other than this I see a lot of other open ended question.
ReplyDeleteb- What was your friend situation?
What activities were you involved/what were your hobbies?
c- What is a major difference that you notice between now and then?
d- You could try talking to a grand parent or possibly and older cousin.
1. I think the audience is a younger person who is going through this part of their life currently. Though it could be a little better established.
2.The writers main point is to really understand what their life was like durning those specific years.
3.I like your questions about the specific details at their schools.
4. I think your question What was it like when you where around 10 years old? could use a little more detail it just seems a little vague and generic.
5.I think other than that most of your questions are really good.
Good topic! A lot of your questions seem to be "close-ended", so if you are going to ask these you might want to rephrase them to get ore depth on your topic.
ReplyDeleteFor example: "Was your school well-rated or poorly-rated?" could be rephrased as "How would you describe what your school looked like?" or by just simply adding a "What's your opinion?" to the end of it.
Two questions you could ask your main source could be:
What was the most memorable time of your life?
What do you think most defined who you are today?
A question you could ask your secondary source could be:
How would you describe Aunt Beth growing up?
You could also interview one of her close friends or another relative of yours.
1. The audience could be anyone because it deals with people of different generations.
2. The author's main point is to compare her lifestyle to her aunts
3. The part that interests me the most is finding out how different it actually was growing up back then and growing up now.
4. The questions could be a little more detailed because a few of them are just a little bit basic and neutral, but overall they're pretty good.
5. The questions for the supporting interviews are the same as you Aunt Beth's, which is a little confusing because they seen a little bit personalized to her.
Good job!