Step 1

Who The Heck Are You Is a project we have been working on for about 3 weeks. there is 5 (kind of 6) steps to this assignments. We started with picking a person who we wanted to interview. it could be someone in the LREI community or it could be a family member. Then we wrote them a letter asking if we are allowed to interview them. I picked my great uncle. (my dad’s uncle) I picked him because they had a family business and that’s really interesting but also because he was in the army. I knew he had an interesting life and I wanted to learn more! We had some requirements to writing the letter but mostly we could write whatever we wanted. We had to write our email and also see what times we could interview them. I don’t have my letter because we had to mail it to them.

 

Step 2

After we wrote our letter we had to draft some questions we wanted to ask them. We each wrote 10 questions for our person. Luckily I have my question. these are the questions I asked my uncle…

Click On This To See My Ten Questions

 

It was hard to ask questions because you had to think of some questions on the spot. For example if I asked Can you tell me about your childhood and he talks about his childhood, then I say what’s your lucky number? It just doesn’t make sense. You sometimes can’t just ask your questions in order, you have to think of follow ups. That was probably the hardest part for me.

 

Step 2.5

 

Now we have our letters and we had our questions, were ready to roll. One more thing before the interview, we have to write all of our info down. Step 1 doc is where we could review all of our info. Step 1 is where we decided who we were interviewing, and other stuff like that. It also has a lot of directions so I’m not going to add it onto this post.

 

Step 3

This is where we can start our interview! So we found a time to interview our person and either called them or talked to them in person. We had to record it and then take facts from the recording. I called my uncle and put him on speaker and recorded it. The interview was actually really fun because I got to learn a lot about my family. I also got to speak to my uncle who I don’t see that much. The interview went well, I had some follow up questions. There was one part where it was silent and that’s when I got nervous. After the silence I quickly thought of a question and we were back on track.

 

Step 4

This is where we took a recording and put it on paper. We didn’t just write

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We actually had to write like journalist. We weaved our words in and out between quotes, and we used descriptive juicy words.

We had to answer the question, so what? Why is this important? I thought it was difficult thinking of my answer, because I wanted to answer the question, but I also wanted it to look and sound good. We used the Step 2 doc, which helped us by organizing our interview.

 

Click On This To See Step 2 Doc

 

Step 5

Now we were all done! We transformed from Step 2 Doc, into a normal sheet. We began to edit. We self edited and peer edited. Both of which were extremely helpful. I really enjoyed writing My Final Heck. The whole project was really fun for me. I found some parts hard, but I didn’t give up, i just kept working!

 

Click This To See My Final Heck!