1. Who is your main subject?
My main subject is my grandmother Nancy.
2. Supporting interviews (who else do you need to talk to)?
Grandpa (Rick), My mother, Aunt Martha, Uncle Richard, Aunt Cathy (sister of Nana)
3. What is the topic or potential topic?
Her role in saving animals and taking care of them.
4. Which angle from above will you write the story?
Human Interest
5. Then to help you get going faster, come up with 20 questions that you can ask your main subject. Type these in your blog.
1. What sparked your love for animals?
2. Have animals always been a part of your life or was there a certain point or event in your life that you really began caring for them?
3. How long have you been saving animals?
4. Why do you save animals, in your personal opinion?
5. How have animals impacted yourself and your life all through the years?
6. How about for your family members?
7. Could you give some examples of them impacting you?
8. How many animals have you saved over the years?
9. How does saving animals and caring for them make you feel?
10. Can you name all the different kinds of animals you have saved before?
11. Seeing animals in a need for help is an emotion state for you- what goes on in your mind when you see them in need of help or with no family?
12. Do you have a favorite animal from all these years that you really connected with?
13. How does your husband help you with saving the animals?
14. Do you go to the police shelter where Grandpa works and put a lot of effort into helping?
15. If so, how?
16. What is your motivation to keep getting out there to save the souls of these animals?
17. What sorts of animals do you have right now in your possession that you have saved?
18. What is the craziest rescue you've experienced or carried out?
19. Will you always have animals by your side and helping them? If so, why?
20. What's your daily routine with taking care and dealing with all the animals that you have saved?
6. Once you complete that portion, you need to come up with 5-10 questions you need to ask your supporting interviews. Type these into your blog. You may need different questions for each supporting subject.
1. How has all these saved animals affected you personally?
2. What was it like growing up in this sort of environment with animals of all sorts?
3. Have you ever saved animal with your mother? If so, could you explain the experience?
4. Have these animals always been welcome with you personally?
5. How would you feel when your mother would focus on the animals so much while you were growing up?
6. What's your personal experience on always helping the animals?
7. You will need to do a little research on the topic you expect to interview your main subject about. Take a little time and do some google searching - find at least 5 new things about the intended topic you should know before you interview your main subject. List those on your blog.
1. People are actually promoting animal cruelty through campaigns, but rescuers are trying to put a stop to this.
2. 7.6 million animal companions enter animal shelters with no home each year.
3. Out of those, only 2.7 million are adopted each year.
4. Owned cats and dogs generally live longer, having a better lifestyle with a family.
5. There are about 3,500 shelters just in the United States alone.
8. Write when you plan to conduct the interview(s)?
I plan to do the interview part either this weekend or over Thanksgiving break.
9. Where you will interview them (some interviews are better to do in the persons environment, while others should be done in public places, ALL interviews should be done in person)?
I will interview them at their houses, in their own environment where they are comfortable.
10. How will you record the information? (taking notes is ideal, and if you want to record the conversation you MUST get permission. You can do both if they will allow you to record, this is a really strong technique that you could use.)
I would most-likely record, if they let me, and also take notes. I'd take notes on their expressions, actions, while also about the conversation itself.
Who is the audience and what is the purpose for this piece of writing?
ReplyDeleteI think you did a great job making thought provoking questions that will give the audience a lot of information. I can clearly tell that the audience are people who are animal lovers or have plans on helping animals themselves. I think that the information you gave about how animals have had a major impact on you nana's life gave a purpose to why you were writing the story.
What do you see as the writer’s main point in these questions?
The main point was to understand had nana's love toward animals and the ways in which she was compassionate in doing what she enjoyed.
Which part of these questions interests you the most? Why?
I was interested in the question that were more personal like, "How did your family encourage/support you throughout your career in helping animals?"
Where do you feel you would like more detail or explanation on any questions? Where do you need less?
I think that violet could have added a little more asking about her attachment that she grew to the animals that she helped. I do think there were too many questions asking about how the animals affected her life but they were just worded differently.
Do you find any questions unclear, confusing, or undeveloped?
No, actually I understand all the points that she was asking. I wasn't at any point confused about the topics she was putting into her story and I thought she did a good job in creating questions that the audience would have to think about or want to know about violet's family and what they did to help animals.
Who is the audience and what is the purpose for this piece of writing? Consider offering a suggestion if either the audience or purpose is not clearly established.
ReplyDeleteThe audience is clear and the questions asked will dig deep into how they feel. I can see how the people are in relation to your main person and the questions you ask your main person relate to the questions asked by the side people.
What do you see as the writer’s main point in these questions?
How the animals affect her and how she feels about what she does.
Which part of these questions interests you the most? Why?
I think the questions about how the animals affect her is very interesting, because she has no relation to these animals but yet she may have a deep connection.
Where do you feel you would like more detail or explanation on any questions?
I think you need more detail about when her helping started.
Where do you need less?
You need a little less on they affect her, because they are just worded different.
Do you find any questions unclear, confusing, or undeveloped?
I think she did a good job of making everything easy to understand and I can really understand how the interview will be taken.