EDUC 652 Assignment

Questions for Interviews:

Background:

o When & where were you born?
o Did you grow up at this location?
o Where have you lived? What section?
o What was the most common group in the area

Immigrant History

o How far back can you trace your ancestors?
o Do you know if your parents, grand-parents, great-grandparents, etc. were the ones to migrate to the US?

 Where did they come from?

o Did they come with families or did they begin family in the US?

Family

o What was a typical weekend like growing up?
o Were you or your family members involved in the community? 

o What kind of things?
o What are your parents� occupations?
o What was the highest educational attainment of your parents? 

Language

o What language do your parents speak at home? 

o Do you speak Spanish?
o Did you grow up speaking Spanish?
o When did you learn it?

o What schools did you attend? Where located?

o Did the schools offer bi-lingual education?
o Where you a part of it?

o What kind of activities or organizations were you a part of? 

Friendships

o Your friends growing up, what background were they?

o You said you were living__, how did you get here? 

o How was it when you arrived?
o Did you find people like you?

Involvement

o Give me the initials of five of your closest friends.
o Tell me briefly how you met.
o What ethnicity are they?
o Do you feel more comfortable around some groups than others? 

o Do you think ethnicity has an influence around preferences? 

Ethnic identification

o Have you ever been treated differently?
o Explain, what did you do?
o What ethnicity do you consider yourself? Why?
o How much do you know about your ethnicity?
o What is your opinion of the terminology: Hispanic, Spanish, or Latino?