Community Interview Project and Rubric - How to Conduct an Interview Assignment

This community interview project is perfect for practicing interviewing skills and teaching students how to conduct an interview! Includes a slideshow lesson, interview graphic organizers, and an editable rubric. Based on the "Humans of New York" project, students will write articles after conducting interviews with partners within the school community! Suitable for online learning with digital worksheets for Google Classroom®.

✨ Updated in 2024 to cater to a wider range of educational environments! ✨

Included with this Community Interview Assignment:

✏️ Community Interview Project Slideshow Lesson - Microsoft PowerPoint® and Google Slides®

• Explore Brandon Stanton’s interview project, “Humans of New York”
• Teach interviewing skills and the interview process
• Model interview questions for students to use during their interview project

✏️ Slideshow Guided Note - Digital & Print 

✏️  Interview Outline Graphic Organizer - Digital & Print 

• Scaffold the interview process
• Use the W5-H Framework to prepare interview questions

✏️  Narrative Summary Graphic Organizer - Digital & Print 

• Use the W5-H Framework to write a summary of the interview

✏️  4-Level Interview Project Rubric - Editable & Ready-to-Print 

✏️ Teacher Instructions for using this resource

How to use this Community Interview Project:

This community interview project is based on Brandon Stanton’s famous photography project, “Humans of New York.” Students will learn about the interviewing process and how to conduct an interview within your school community. They will also write a narrative summary to capture the story of the person that they interview.   

You can begin this lesson with the Community Interview Slideshow Lesson. This lesson is formatted for both Microsoft PowerPoint® and Google Slides®. Students will explore Brandon Stanton’s interview project, “Humans of New York,” including his interview process for capturing meaningful stories.  They will also learn about the interview process, including how to introduce their interview project and how to conduct themselves respectfully, in order to conduct their own interviews.  

This slideshow lesson also includes interview question examples in order to model the interview process to students.

As you work through the lesson with your students, they can fill out the corresponding Guided Note. This guided note template prompts students to make note of important information from the slideshow lesson.  They will also have space to answer the inquiry-based questions within the slideshow; you can have students fill out their answers before consolidating them as a class with the information provided in the lesson.

Students can then conduct their interviews using the Interview Outline Graphic Organizer provided. This graphic organizer will have students introduce themselves, brainstorm potential questions, conclude their interview, and request a photograph for their project. It also utilizes the W5-H Framework (who, what, when, where, why, and how) to engage in meaningful conversation during the interview process.

To scaffold writing, this resource also includes a narrative summary graphic organizer. This graphic organizer will help students organize the information from their interview in order to capture a story in the style of “Humans of New York.”  

A 4-level rubric for the interview process has also been provided for assessment purposes. This rubric is aligned with the Ontario Curriculum for the OLC4O / OSSLC Course. This rubric is also provided in editable and ready-to-print formats to meet the unique needs of your classroom.

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To access the digital version of these worksheets, simply follow the instructions within the resource to copy the files directly to your Google Drive®.

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