Memo #4 for I-Search Project

I am so happy with the people that I have chosen to be my primary sources. I interviewed all but one already, the last person I have to interview is my old middle school teacher, and I should be able to interview her some point next week.  But I have to say I learned the most by interviewing a local middle school 6th grade English Teacher. She was so nice and so eager to answer my questions, she even allowed me to sit in on one of her classes. She explained to me in great detail what her class and what her school does for students that have difficulty in writing.

Interviewing my neighbor and her sons was also beneficial. Interviewing my neighbor answered questions that I had about teaching writing to mentally handicapped students of the middle school age group.  And talking to her sons opened my eyes to how students feel about writing in the classroom now.  Her son in middle school was more willing to talk to me in detail then her son that is in high school (which I kind of figured would happen).

After talking with all of these people I have many different questions about teaching, most questions don't really pertain to the topic that I am writing about though. But it is always good to develop new questions about the future career that I am pursuing.  The next things that I have planned is to interview my old middle school teacher, and to also find another high school students to interview. Maybe by doing that I can try to find someone that will talk to me in more detail about what he or she is learning about writing on the high school level. Also my next plans are to continue to read and locate more secondary sources on my topic. I am still hoping to find materials where I can use more then a paragraph or two from it.