The goals are:

1. To get acquainted with other students
2. To discover some prewriting techniques
3. To introduce the drafting and revision process
4. To begin process journals
5. To establish response partners

Read the following questions. Decide which information might help you to write about the person you are going to interview. You may use all or some of these questions or you may make up your own to help you gather information about your partner.

1. Your subject's name.
2. Birthday, place, country.
3. What language do you feel most comfortable using?
4. Were you born speaking another language other than English? If yes, what was it?
5. Was there pressure on you to learn English? If so, by whom?
6. With what culture(s) do you most strongly identify?
   
7. In how many different ways do you express your culture(s)? For example, do you eat the foods of your culture groups(s)? Do you express the history of your culture(s) to other people?
   
8. In what ways are you most proud of your culture group(s)?
   
9. Is your culture group in conflict with any other culture group? If so, why? In your explanation, try to trace the origin of that conflict.
   
10. Are you aware of other people in this school who are also from the same culture group as you are? How much contact do you have with them? If yes, explain. If no, explain.
    
11. What are your future plans? Do these plans differ from those of your parents? Do they differ radically from other members of your culture group(s)?
    
12. Ask the subject to give the names of two books that would detail certain aspects of his/her culture.
    
13. Ask the subject to describe some of the art forms of his/her culture. These can include traditional and modern art forms. Are there any art forms for which this particular culture is or was especially known? What are they? Do they exist in other cultures? What makes them special in this culture?

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