Interview Assignment: Final Tasks
Interview Assignment
English 120: Shock and Knowledge
To complete this assignment, you’ll need your working notes from the initial interview. This is Due Wednesday, February 15th.
(1) First, return to the person you interviewed. Ask them to relate an average day in their life when they were your age now. Ask them to use as much detail as possible. It can, if necessary, be a kind of composite day, or many days remembered as one. But the day can’t be exceptional. Where did they work? What did they wear? Who would they have called a friend? What foods did they like—and where would they buy that food? You can think of any other relevant questions—what made up an ordinary day?
(2) Next, type up their responses and combine them with the working notes from your first interview.
(3) Then, you’ll need to play detective for a small task. Figure out where that person was when they were your age, and find out what was happening in that year in that place. You’ll need to be specific to the exact town or city they were living in, and specific to that year. Is anything available? What kind of information is there? Find out what a few different sources report were happening then.
(4) write a 1-2 page response essay, and turn it in Wednesday with your notes from the interview. Consider the following questions, and try to use examples from the interviewer’s answers:
Did your interview experience change your conception of the person you interviewed? Why or why not?
Does the information you found out about the person connect at all with the information you found in step (3)? Why or why not?
What do you believe is the relationship between memory and identity? In other words, how important are a few important events in the life of one person?
If you had to point to one or two important memories in your life, what are they? Do you feel comfortable sharing them? (You don’t have to share if you choose not to. But you still need to write 1-2 pages!).
English 120: Shock and Knowledge
To complete this assignment, you’ll need your working notes from the initial interview. This is Due Wednesday, February 15th.
(1) First, return to the person you interviewed. Ask them to relate an average day in their life when they were your age now. Ask them to use as much detail as possible. It can, if necessary, be a kind of composite day, or many days remembered as one. But the day can’t be exceptional. Where did they work? What did they wear? Who would they have called a friend? What foods did they like—and where would they buy that food? You can think of any other relevant questions—what made up an ordinary day?
(2) Next, type up their responses and combine them with the working notes from your first interview.
(3) Then, you’ll need to play detective for a small task. Figure out where that person was when they were your age, and find out what was happening in that year in that place. You’ll need to be specific to the exact town or city they were living in, and specific to that year. Is anything available? What kind of information is there? Find out what a few different sources report were happening then.
(4) write a 1-2 page response essay, and turn it in Wednesday with your notes from the interview. Consider the following questions, and try to use examples from the interviewer’s answers:
Did your interview experience change your conception of the person you interviewed? Why or why not?
Does the information you found out about the person connect at all with the information you found in step (3)? Why or why not?
What do you believe is the relationship between memory and identity? In other words, how important are a few important events in the life of one person?
If you had to point to one or two important memories in your life, what are they? Do you feel comfortable sharing them? (You don’t have to share if you choose not to. But you still need to write 1-2 pages!).
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