One of the students who is interviewing me for the profile project has chosen gardening as her angle. Because they have to get some secondary quotes, she asked me who else has "seen me gardening."
My nephew, Treat, has helped me before, I told her. Since my budding journalists have a limited travel budget, most of them rely on the kindness of their subject to pass along their written questions. As it is the 21st century, some have used Google Docs and email for this task, but I have a stack of index cards for those who want or need to go old school. The kids persist in calling them postcards, though, a misdesignation which I find so charming that I never correct them. And so it was that this particular student brought me a collection of three "postcards" for Treat:
Hi Ms. S's Nephew I need to ask you some questions about her because I'm doing the thing about her, read the first one, and below that the word Questions! with lots of dots and underlines. At the bottom it read From Samantha R
The next card had two questions: Have you ever seen her struggle when she's gardening? and have you noticed her strengths?
And the final card asked, how can you describe her garden in 3 words?
Rather than transcribe the inquiry, I texted photos of the cards to Treat. As a potential primary source, I wanted him to appreciate the primary questions. I believe he did, because his answers were very much in the spirit of the project:
1) I've never observed ms s. struggling in the garden. I do believe that there is an upward limit to her strength but I haven't observed it
2) yes, as mentioned, I haven't been able to determine her strength exactly but I believe it to be very great
3) the vegetables!!! yum!!
I can't wait to share them with Samantha!
My nephew, Treat, has helped me before, I told her. Since my budding journalists have a limited travel budget, most of them rely on the kindness of their subject to pass along their written questions. As it is the 21st century, some have used Google Docs and email for this task, but I have a stack of index cards for those who want or need to go old school. The kids persist in calling them postcards, though, a misdesignation which I find so charming that I never correct them. And so it was that this particular student brought me a collection of three "postcards" for Treat:
Hi Ms. S's Nephew I need to ask you some questions about her because I'm doing the thing about her, read the first one, and below that the word Questions! with lots of dots and underlines. At the bottom it read From Samantha R
The next card had two questions: Have you ever seen her struggle when she's gardening? and have you noticed her strengths?
And the final card asked, how can you describe her garden in 3 words?
Rather than transcribe the inquiry, I texted photos of the cards to Treat. As a potential primary source, I wanted him to appreciate the primary questions. I believe he did, because his answers were very much in the spirit of the project:
1) I've never observed ms s. struggling in the garden. I do believe that there is an upward limit to her strength but I haven't observed it
2) yes, as mentioned, I haven't been able to determine her strength exactly but I believe it to be very great
3) the vegetables!!! yum!!
I can't wait to share them with Samantha!
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