Conducting an interview.

Ask students to talk to their grandparents, great grandparents or older members of their community who lived during the Great Depression and can remember it. They will have to be at least 80 years old. Before conducting an interview do some research about what the Great Depression was like. If possible tape or video record the interview. Record the name of the interviewer, date, time and place of the interview, as well as the person being interviewed, spelling out their complete name and date of birth, at the beginning of the tape. If you are not recording the interview, take extensive notes, including the same information as mentioned above. Ask permission to use your interview as part of an assignment that you will be sharing with your fellow students. Students can select and take FSA photographs of Indiana with them to the interview. The photographs may be helpful in having people recall the past. Another possible project might be to bring together a group of older people and have them share their memories about the Great Depression. Often these photos will trigger memories for one another. Possible questions you might want to ask include: