Content Area: Language Arts Literacy

 

Index: 3.3D Grade 8 CPI 2

 

Standard: 3.3 Speaking

 

Strand: D - Oral Presentation

 

Cumulative Progress Indicator: 2 -  The student will use visual aids, media, and/or technology to support oral communication..

 

Grade: 8

 

Sample Activities:

 

·               Middle school students work in pairs to conduct video interviews of each other as part of a local oral history project. Students begin this unit by reading and hearing/observing sample oral history interviews from which the students distill sample generic questions. Prior to taping the actual interview, students practice interviewing one another, using the questions they have generated and familiarizing themselves with media (video or still camera, tape recorders).

 

·               Students read about and discuss proper interviewing techniques. They observe formal interviews on television and then discuss these to determine effective questioning strategies. A set of guidelines is prepared.

 

·               Students develop a list of biographical questions to ask another student in their grade. Each student conducts an interview and then writes a short essay or news report about the interviewee. These are read to the class, omitting the subject’s name, and students guess the subject’s identity.

 

 

Vignettes (PDF Format):

 

·        Preparing for a Multimedia Talk Show