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Sophia Learning

Sophia: Apa Bibliography: Interview Sources

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This slideshow lesson focuses on how to document interview sources using APA style. It describes two types of interviews: personal and published. It explains how to document a personal interview in text with an example; it also explains...
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Smithsonian Institution

Smithsonian Folklife and Oral History Interviewing Guide

For Students 9th - 10th
If you set out to do your own primary research with a tradition-bearer in your community, this guide will be very valuable. Get information about how to get the best results, along with an extensive list of possible questions for the...
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Amby Duncan-Carr

Amby: Types of Interviews

For Students 9th - 10th
Are you getting ready for a job interview? Make sure you are prepared by investigating the variety of interview formats that are out there.
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American Scientist: Author Interview: Neil De Grasse Tyson

For Students 9th - 10th
Astrophysicist Neil deGrasse Tyson has made "Popularizing science a personal passion." Tyson's latest book, Origins, is the starting point here for a discussion of dark matter, intelligent life in our solar system, the possibility of...
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College Grad

College Grad: Phone Interviewing Success

For Students 9th - 10th
It's not "Just another phone call,"--it's a real interview. Prepare properly so that it's not your last and you can secure the job you are looking for!
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Other

Tonya Skinner: Job Interview Scoring Rubric

For Teachers 9th - 10th Standards
This site presents a scoring rubric for job interviews. Topics included are First Impressions, presentation, personal attributes, general attitude, personal appearance and responses.
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Climate Literacy

Clean: Person on the Street (Pos) Interview About Climate Science

For Teachers 9th - 10th
A media project where students create a video that documents unrehearsed interviews with "people on the street" about a specific question or issue in climate science.
Website
Other

Pat Mora: Personal Page

For Students 9th - 10th
Everything a person wants to know about Pat Mora. This is her own personal page. It has links to her nonfiction, her poetry, her children's books and interviews with her. There are some great resources for teachers at this site. Students...
Primary
PBS

Pbs: Total War

For Students 9th - 10th
An excellent site from PBS explores on a personal level what the concept of Total War means. Read and listen to interviews from people who lived through WWII.
Primary
PBS

Pbs: People Power

For Students 9th - 10th
A personal interview from someone who was actually there at the historic event can tell so much more than a history book. Read an interview with a citizen of East Germany at the time of the destruction of the Berlin Wall.
Primary
Rutgers University

Rutgers Oral History Archive

For Students 9th - 10th
This archive records the personal experiences of the American men and women who served on the homefront and overseas during World War II, the Korean War, the Vietnam War, and the Cold War. Also offers resources on the men and women who...
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BBC

Bbc: The Road to Refugee

For Students 9th - 10th
Fifty years after the adoption of the UN Convention on Refugees, the decade we live in has seen more of the world's people than ever before seeking refuge from war, persecution or disaster. This special report tells the stories behind...
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Other

Presenting Sid Fleischman

For Students 3rd - 8th
This is children author Sid Fleischman's personal website, which offers a fascinating look into his life and work.
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ReadWriteThink

Read Write Think: Exploring and Sharing Family Stories

For Teachers 5th - 8th Standards
Writing gets personal when young scholars interview family members in order to write a personal narrative about that person.
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Alabama Learning Exchange

Alex: Fried Green Tomatoes & Cultural Crossroads

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Having read Fannie Flagg's Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Cafe, young scholars will conduct research through an interview with an elderly person from the community (a field trip to local nursing home facility) to determine the...
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Luminarium

Luminarium: Anniina's Toni Morrison Page

For Students 9th - 10th
This personal site provides information and critiques on Morrison's work as well as biographies, bibliographies, and interviews with Toni Morrison.
Website
Other

Carol Polsgrove on Writers' Lives: George Ella Lyon on Books for the Young

For Teachers 9th - 10th
This site shares an interview with George Ella Lyon, author and Kentucky Poet Laureate. Lyon provides advice on selecting books for children and young adults. She also shares her personal experiences with having her own books banned...
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Swiss Educ

Swiss Educ: Lessing, Doris 1919

For Teachers 9th - 10th
This large site offers both background, personal interviews, examples of Lessing's work, and suggestions for teaching it.
Interactive
PBS

Pbs: Endgame: Ethics and Values in America

For Students 9th - 10th
At this interactive site from PBS, viewers enter the lives of fictional characters who are forced to make critical decisions about their roles in a fatal car crash. A variety of media--video, polling, and audio interviews with an expert...
Website
Other

Museum of Chinese in the Americas: Ground One: Voices From Post 911 Chinatown

For Students 9th - 10th
Choose from a menu of transcribed interviews about the 9/11 experiences of people living in New York's Chinatown. Includes a topic theme search tool.
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Other

Sharon Creech

For Students 3rd - 8th
This is Sharon Creech's personal website. Offers the reader more about the author herself as well as her books.
Website
Other

John Casablanca: Modeling & Career Center

For Students 9th - 10th
Are you interested in fashion? Explore resources for those looking to develop personal style or to become a model.
Lesson Plan
PBS

Pbs Learning Media: The Common Application for Undergraduate College Admission

For Teachers 9th - 10th
SCU uses StoryCorps' tested interviewing techniques-combined with outstanding radio broadcasts and animated shorts-to support high school students in the development of identity and in drawing connections between their unique strengths...
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EL Education

El Education: Honor for All: Japanese American Experience

For Teachers 9th - 10th
These booklets (sample provided) were created by 7th grade students at the Harmon Middle School, in Aurora, Ohio as part of a case study of Japanese internment within a broader study of World War II. Students, singly or in pairs,...