Business education teacher/newspaper adviser Elizabeth Wiederspohn at Sunnyside High School in Sunnyside, Wash. Full-bio

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Lesson Plans Car Raid!: Preparing for an Interview

Elizabeth Wiederspohn
Sunnyside High School
Sunnyside, Wash.

Title: Car Raid

Objective: Learn interviewing basics and the importance of preparing for an interview.

Time: Two 55-minute periods

Preparation:

• Move your car to a place easily accessible to students
• Remove any embarrassing or extremely valuable items from the car
• Inform students about interview basics and the need for preparation for an interview.

Procedures:

Take students to the prepared vehicle (preferably yours) and have them look through the contents. The related handout PDF could help with the process.

• Based only on the contents of the vehicle, have the students write down observations of the vehicle and write at least seven open-ended questions about the owner of the vehicle. (You may have to take shifts with different groups of 10 students at a time.)
• When finished, return to the classroom and let students ask the questions to the owner of the vehicle. Each student should ask at least one question.
• While asking the open-ended questions, have the students write down two follow-up questions and two challenge questions.
• Open up the floor to the follow-up questions and the challenge questions.
• Have the students write an article about the owner of the vehicle based only on what was found in the car and what was said during the interview.