Decide who you’ll interview

Write questions to guide your interview

Conduct your interview

Complete your transcript

Brainstorm follow-up questions

Re-interview

Add to your transcript

Select the best stories (you, with a yellow highlighter)

Adults help you select stories (adults + you, with a different highlighter)

You proofread

Clarify with brackets

Create working draft (step 1, 2 on “Creating an Oral History” worksheet)

Peer edit, working draft (more than one student)

Create and revise first draft

Adult edit: do you need a few more follow-up questions?

(Re-interview)

(Type responses right into first draft)

Print out first draft (with re-interview info., if necessary); take to interviewee for fact-checking

Adult edit first draft

Create second draft and add edits

Complete “Final Stages” worksheet and add elements to second draft

Get one more adult edit

Save as Final Draft

Print final draft, hand in recording, transcript and final draft