Topics for Discussion

1. Differences between written language and spoken language.
   
   
2. Interviews on radio and television: are they always fair?
   
   
3. If students are doing an interview project, they may wish to discuss the difference between interviewing someone for information and the interviews they see on the television or hear on the radio.

Questions for Discussion

1. Why do we need to do interviews?
   
   
2. How can you find people to interview?
   
   
3. Pick a topic that you are interested in. Make a list of questions you would ask if you were going to interview someone about that topic. If you needed to know more about the topic before doing the interview, where would you look?
   
   
4. List the steps in an interview project.

Projects

1. Life in my town 50 years ago.
   
   
2. Going to school in my grandmother's time.
   
   
3. Food people ate in the 1930s.
   
   
4. What it was like to come to Newfoundland as a new Canadian.
   
   
5. An important event in your town (for example: the building of a new fish plant or business, a fire, the opening or closing of an important service such as a hospital or business).
   
   
6. An important event in history (for example: World War II, Confederation with Canada, the moratorium on the cod fishery.