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Lesson Plan
Alabama Learning Exchange

Alex: How to Participate in a Professional Job Interview

For Teachers 9th - 10th Standards
Through this instructional activity, students will learn how to participate in a professional job interview.
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Article
College Grad

College Grad: Company Site Interviewing Success

For Students 9th - 10th
The company site interview is your moment of truth. This is usually your make or break for getting an offer.
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Lesson Plan
PBS

Pbs Learning Media: Lesson Plan: Effective Interview Questions

For Teachers 9th - 10th Standards
Explore effective interview questions. By choosing questions that are open-ended and important to them, students can learn great interview skills that can be helpful in future college and job interviews.
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Article
Other

Channel 3000: Phone Interviewing Skills Are a Must

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This is an article that discusses the importance of phone interviewing skills. It gives some brief advice on things to avoid during such an interview.
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Primary
Other

Ballet Dance Magazine: An Interview With Evelyn Cisneros

For Students 9th - 10th
An interview with Evelyn Cisneros and with the choreographer of a dance, "Lambarena," created especially for her. In it, Cisneros discusses why she started dance, her early training, and the work that went into "Lambarena."
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Primary
Other

Wired for Books: Audio Interview With Robertson Davies

For Students 9th - 10th
Listen to an interview with Canadian novelist Robertson Davies, author of "A Mixture of Frailties" and "The Lyre of Orpheus." Discussion topics include journalism, writing plays, and writers' experiences.
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Handout
Other

Sask Net Work: General Interview Skills

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This site lists some things you can do that will better prepare for an interview.
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Primary
Other

Interview With Melissa Fay Greene

For Students 9th - 10th
Melissa Fay Greene is the author of "Last Man Out: The Story of the Springhill Mine Disaster" a book published in 2004 about the 1958 Springhill Mine Disaster. Ms. Greene is an accomplished American author and National Book Award...
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Primary
Other

The Paris Review: Dna of Literature: Thornton Wilder

For Students 9th - 10th
Wilder muses about writing, drama, patriotism and other topics in this interview. Download the interview as a .pdf document, or read a short excerpt online.
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Website
African American Literature Book Club

African American Literature Book Club: Alex Haley

For Students 9th - 10th
This site provides a concise biography of Haley, the video [12:28] "Alex Haley Interview Roots (Merv Griffin Show 1977)" and links to six of his books.
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Unit Plan
CommonLit

Common Lit: Un Explores Native American Rights in u.s.

For Students 11th - 12th
A learning module that begins with Michel Martin's interview "UN Explores Native American Rights in U.S." accompanied by guided reading questions, assessment questions, and discussion questions. The text can be printed as a PDF or...
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Website
PBS

Pbs Learning Media: Wide Angle: Barshefsky Interview

For Students 9th - 10th
Wide Angle video of Ambassador Charlene Barshefsky, former U.S. Trade Representative, discussing her views on economic change in China and China's participation in the World Trade Organization. [1:50]
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Primary
PBS

Pbs: Jane Addams and Hull House

For Students 9th - 10th
An interesting interview with Robyn Muncy, a Professor of History, about Addams and the philosophy of the women who started the Hull House.
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EL Education

El Education: E2 River Scientist Study

For Teachers 3rd - 8th
This book was created by fifth and sixth grade students at in Amherst, Massachusetts. As part of study of the local watershed, students interviewed and worked with local scientists who were involved with studying and promoting the health...
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EL Education

El Education: Faces of the Depression

For Teachers 3rd - 8th
This book was created by 5th graders in Fitchburg, Massachusetts, as part of a learning expedition on the Great Depression. Students learned about the Depression though several different sources: in addition to standard historical...
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Website
The Book Report

Teen reads.com: Author Profile, Meg Cabot

For Students 9th - 10th
An interview with "Princess Diaries" author Meg Cabot includes some details about her books, and links to her website.
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EL Education

El Education: Blanca Rosenberg

For Teachers 5th - 8th
This memoir-style book was created by a 5th/6th grade student in Shutesbury, Massachusetts, and tells the life story of a Holocaust survivor. Blanca Rosenberg is the biography of Blanca written in first person narrative, as told to the...
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EL Education

El Education: Camilla E. Church

For Teachers 3rd - 8th
This character file was created by a 5th/6th grade student in Shutesbury, Massachusetts, as part of a Learning expedition on architecture. Though only one is shown here, each student's character file (CF) tells the detailed life story,...
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Handout
Columbia University

Columbia University Libraries: Notable New Yorkers: Mamie Clark

For Students 9th - 10th
On this website you can read about Dr. Mamie Clark, distinguished African-American educator, and hear an interview with her about her studies of race and child development. This interview is part of Columbia University's Oral History...
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Primary
Curated OER

History Matters: Joe Rudiak Remembers the 1919 Strike

For Students 9th - 10th
Read an interview with a former steelworker, who recalls the Great Steel Strike of 1919 when he was a young boy. Find out the ramifications for his family because his father was a union man who supported the strike. An audio of the...
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Website
PBS

Pbs: American Masters: Sidney Poitier: One Bright Light

For Students 9th - 10th
Associated with the PBS program, this site contains a biography, a career timeline, video interviews with some of Poitier's fellow actors and an interview with the director of the PBS special. This site provides an in-depth look at the...
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Website
Columbia University

Columbia University Libraries: Notable New Yorkers: Kenneth Clark

For Students 9th - 10th
Read about Kenneth Clark, an influential black educator and psychologist. You can also listen to the interview on which this profile is based.
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Primary
Curated OER

History Matters: Deaf and Unemployed in Dubuque

For Students 9th - 10th
Read this poignant interview, transcribed by a WPA worker, in which a deaf couple describes the hardships they encountered during the Great Depression, compounded because of their disability.
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Handout
PBS

This Is Home: The Hmong in Minnesota

For Students 9th - 10th
This radio series gives an up-close-and-personal view of Hmong history, culture and the challenges of resettling in the U.S. Listen to, or read transcripts of, interviews with Hmong refugees, a clan leader trained by the CIA as part of...