Recording the interviews

Today you will venture forth into the village where the lottery takes place. Some advice...

1. Villager: speak into the recording device to help eliminate background noise.

2. Keep your papers still, or keep them away from the recording device.

3. Elaborating on your responses is highly important---simple "yeses  and nos" are not quality responses

4. The best questions will address how the villagers feel about the tradition of the lottery and the ethics of participating in it.

5. Most villagers will be defensive (not necessarily abrasive or aggressive though...)

6.  If you complete all planned interviews--delve into other possibilities--hot seat someone else as the same character, choose new characters to interview, (possibly characters not mentioned in the book, like law enforcement, the mayor--but save these "obscure" interviews til the end.)

Any interviews not recorded in class must be done on your own time.

Tomorrow we will report to the computer lab. Please bring your devices with you.