Evaluation
For this week, I made an email to send out to the staff that I want to interview. My goal for this email was to get in touch with the staff member, explain what I am making, explain why I need the interviewee, and explain what I will be asking them. I wanted to make sure that everything I needed was in the email, so included with that I wanted to make sure like I wasn't imposing either. Lastly, I was also slightly worried that the people I was asking may have possibly not been people who would be able to answer my questions about the development of the Ninth Grade Academy or that they wouldn't want to do the interviews, so I asked as well to be directed to a different person that would also suffice for an interview on the subject.
Template Email
Dear Mr./Mrs./Dr. ____
Hi! My name is Sean Hopkins. I am a senior in Mr. Bomboy’s CVTV Year 3 TV Production class, and I am producing a documentary about the creation of CV 9 as my year long independent project. As a part of my documentary, I’d like to interview a couple CV staff members of authority who had a part in the development of CV 9. Mr. Bomboy told me that you’d be a good resource for learning about CV 9, so I was wondering if you would be willing to do an hour-or-so interview with me sometime during late March (preferably after school? It would just be you answering some questions I have about the development and current status of CV 9. Listed below are the the questions I’d be asking:
1. Who are you and what is your current role in the school?
2. What role did you have in making CV 9?
3.What is the basic idea of a Ninth Grade Academy?
-This is just meant to be a simple question that establishes what a ninth grade academy is and why one should be implemented.
4. How did the idea arise to renovate Good Hope Middle School into the 9th grade academy?
-Once again, this is not meant to be a very difficult question. I simply want you to explain why it was decided to renovate the old building and how it was a good idea to do so.
5. What were some difficulties that made planning and organizing CV 9 hard?
-Example answers could be getting staff reorganized, new bus schedules, creating new/cutting old course options, etc.
6. Could you explain what was new with the CV 9 schedule compared to the current one?
-Examples answers related to scheduling (when school starts/ends or the lunch periods)
7. What specifically had to happen to certain classes that had to be cut?
- Some courses were simply taken away or you could mention how some were clustered together in some cases like ceramics and 2D art becoming just Visual Arts or how lifestyle and culinary classes simply became Essentials of FCS and Food and Nutrition.
8. What were some classes that only 9th graders can't take due to a lack of staff for too little students?
-Examples answers include Film, Digital Modeling, Personal finance, Psychology classes, Yearbook
9. What kinds of concerns did people have in terms of the 9th graders being separated from the 10th-12th graders?
-Essentially this is asking about what were concerns that people had about how 9th graders would be isolated. Would they be losing out on not having role models that upperclassmen could be? Would some 9th graders feel lonely because they can only interact with other people from their grade? Would the social development of 9th graders be hurt because they aren't surrounded by other grades to learn from?
10. Would you say the first week of CV 9 went smoothly? Why?
11. How has CV 9 ran over the last semester? Have things gone well?
So yeah! Would you be interested in doing an interview with me sometime in late March? If not, do you know by any chance who would be a good person to interview about the development and -to a lesser extent the current standings- of the Ninth Grade Academy?
Thanks in advance,
Sean Hopkins
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