Afterward, edit the interview and combine it with your classmates interviews to create a book of women s memories. Add photographs, illustrations, and highlighted quotations to help the people come alive and to make the book more appealing to read. Students will be able to use a combination of prepared interview questions and to generate their own questions by searching and studying the Women in American History Web site links to key women and issues from about 1940 to the present. Students will be able to transcribe their responses from their interviews into interview dialogues and publish a collection of them for others to read. Assist students with ideas for publishing their collections.
Some schools have equipment and resources that can produce spiral-bound notebooks.
Students with artistic abilities could design the cover and add illustrations. Completed booklets could be presented to all women who were interviewed for this activity. The collections also could find a home in the school media center or the neighborhood branch of the public library. Have the class as a group design a permission form for the subject to sign that signals her agreement to be interviewed, taped, and to have her replies published. Show a video, if available, of an interview taking place.