Please see the following posts about the "Interview." This process has been discussed in depth in class and students have already been encouraged to ask for parent help last week.
Your son or daughter need an "expert" in the field that deals with their Isearch controversial topic.
This "expert" may be a police officer or a lawyer on the issue of the death penalty, or a beautician who definitely sells beauty products that may have been animal tested or not. You may know someone like a prison guard at San Quentin or an Oncology researcher, but the odds that you may know an expert at this level for the topic that your son or daughter has covered in the Isearch Project may not be likely. Also, the closer a person is on the topic, or the higher up on the food chain of the topic, the less time they may have to take an interview from a middle school student, or may also be less likely to discuss specific confidential and/or delicate issues surrounding the topic. In all cases, I have been surprised at the level of contacts that some parents have often completely by the six degrees of separation that help bind us together socially as a society.
Overall, the contact is not as important as the information reaped from the interview by following a thorough interview process with the focus on a final, well written interview.
Students always have a lot of questions, and we have had major discussions this past week, and I am sure this coming week as well in class. If you have any questions, please email me at teacher@erodgers.net.
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