"Ooooh. Could yo have Hypothetical Questions?" Vanessa thought aloud whilst raising her hand.

Varius raised his hand for another guess, "Convergent questions?"

"Er.." Jack frowned, his small brain wasn't too clever, he raised his hand "emotional questions?"

"Reflective questions" said Barry hand raised as fast as he could.

Agie was sooo going to so her brain in. She sucked at this class. "What about Evaluative questions? Making the person dig deep to answer. Or Funnel Questions "

Ruby smiled and replied "Probing questions are more for detail clarifactation, Probing will allow you to explore more specific area's but people might feel like they are being interrogated"

"Correct!" Truebridge nodded.

"Yes, you certainly can. However, relating to types of questions one might ask in an interview situation, the usage is limited."

"You are so close." Ethan winked in encouragement, "Emotional based questions tend to be common when you are asking..."

"Reflective questions! Exactly."

"Evaluative questions and Funnel Questions; now you are thinking. Evaluative questions tend not to apply to interview situations so well, but Funnel questions are certainly an excellent tool."

Ethan flicked his wand at the board, adding more notes.

"There is one type of question we are missing here. Very commonly used by journalists and closely assoicated with propaganda." Ethan hinted.

"Thats right Ruby. Its important to find a balance and not make the interviewee feel harassed."

"Leading questions?" he tried after raising his hand.

Agie raised her hand, pleased to finally get one. "Would that be Leading questions?" She said.

"Leading questions!" said Barry seeing that type missing.

Jack frowned "So close" Think, think, thiiiiiiink Jack put his hand up "How someone is?" Jack took a wild guess

Ruby raised her hand and asked "professor what about "funnel" information??"

"Excellent." Truebridge nodded, pleased they'd gotten it.

He added it to the list. "Please all make sure you have copied these notes down and for those of you who haven't finished your questions and answers from your chosen ten year period, don't forget to finish those and hand them in before class finishes." Truebridge gestured to the pile on his desk again.
"So." Truebridge paused and looked around the class, "What do you think propaganda might tell us about society from a historical perspective? Think of the examples from earlier in the class and what it may indicate to us now."

Herminny raised her hand and said, "It distorts some peoples veiws on pressing issues of that time".

Vanessa spent a few seconds thinking about the question before raising her hand. "It may have changed people's opinions because of the opinions of others. An example of this could be how at one time certain wizards and witches thought that they were better than others because of their heritage, and the things that others said."

Agie raised her hand. "As a result of propaganda, we may have a distorted view of what really happened in the past. For example, if only the rich got their point across because they could get their stories out there. Our view of history would only be from the rich, or the purebloods, lets say. We wont be getting the whole storey. Just a fragment of what it was really like."

"It could mean that all history is not correct, and people might have changed history?" he said ok that was lame.

Then he answered his questions.
Barry finished answering and he sent his paper to land in the pile of finished work.

Kayla raised her hand. "That maybe what we we were told of things that happened in the past may not be true at all. That it could be just heresay and that maybe the total opposite happened, so it has shaped out world to what it is today but in fact it could be totally different." She placed her head onto the table, quite frankly she had no idea.

As Miles listened to the Professor as he started asking more questions, he also decided to multi-task, and attempted to write the answer for the last question.

"It does. Both our views now and the views of people at the time."

Truebridge nodded, "It's amazing how that works. The power of suggestion is basically what makes propaganda effective."

"Certainly. But if you get enough fragments..." Ethan trailed off.

"Good point. History is never going to be a precise art." Truebridge nodded acknowledgement of the handed in assignment.

"You are all correct. However there is another consideration; Propaganda can tell us an awful lot about the moral and political climate of a certain era and lead us to ask questions that would not have otherwised occurred to us. Also, how widely the propaganda was accepted and how it was distributed and even questioned gives us a lot of information. The trick is learning to read between the lines, ask questions and think outside the square." Truebridge explained.

"Alright, another 5 minutes to finish the in class assignment and then I will assign homework and you can all be on your merry way."


ooc: lets see... I'll give you all another... somewhere between... 6 hours and 12 hours to post up your questions and answers, depending if I wake up and can get online before work in the morning.

Glancing down at her parchment quickly, she looked at Miles, looking what he was writing for the last question. "Oooh.....Thats good Miles," She nodded, whilst picking up her quill and writing it down, they'd have finished answering the questions then.

Quote:

Interviewers: Miles and Vanessa.
Interviewee: Order of the Pheonix
Time Period: 1960's(?)

Q1. How exactly did you recruite members for the order?
Q1. "Well, that problem was an easy one to solve. He who must not be named if a very frightful .. person. People who knew about the order, would join it. Ofcourse, it wasn't only recruits. They were brave, and willing to fight. The word, mainly was whispered around area's, and quite a lot of people knew. They were trustworthy and they would never tell the ministry, or indeed Death Eaters. And we were also careful who we told, just incase they did work for the Dark Lord."

Q2. How did you keep the order a secret from the ministry?
"Well we had to keep it very low key, especially for the members who worked in the Ministry. For example we usually tended to only talk about the order in enclosed places, to people who we new wouldn't tell the Ministry. Also those of us who worked in the order didn't promote as much, so that they wouldn't lose there jobs.

Q3. What exactly did the order do in order to stop Voldermort?
"That's easy. We fought. Any time Voldemort and his followers started to show up and cause havoc, we were also there, fighting and clenaing up after them. This spread through a long time, and I'm sure Voldemort knew about us, as we tended to show up whereever he was when he was in public."

"After re-reading their answers she looked up again. "I think we're done now."

Plymouth was feeling a little bit like Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde. He was torn between being livid and so happy he might spontaneous combust. On one hand, 1. he knew Tic-Tac-Toe -- and that meant that NO ONE with from the house that had HUFF and PUFF in their name would be beating up on him. 2. Copernicus needed to learn to keep his big mouth SHUT. It wasn't so much for what he said, but more for the way HIS little Cela's face fell when Copernicus had decided to be a BUTT. 3. Plymouth needed - needed that note back.

On the other hand, 1. Cela had written kiss hug kiss? Just like that? Really?!?! eeeeee. 2. He was apparently a History genius. Being used as an example in history... this made HIM history now, right? EXCELLENT! and 3. Cela wanted to dance with him... now..

So, he finished up his questions in order to have an excuse to go up to the desk and look for his little note.

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Originally Posted by Plymouth's notes

Time Period: At least a 100 years ago.
Significance of time period: Birth of Kazimerawhateverhisnamehis.

Questions that need answers from Psuedo Journalist Plymouth Morgan:

1. Were you always this old? Yes. I burst out from the spore of a demon sneeze - this old, this big, this cranky. And that will be a MILLION POINTS from RAVENCLAWWWWWW!!!
2. Were you always so cranky? Yes. And you would be too if you were born from the spore of a demon booger. And that will be another BAGILLION Points from Ravenclaw, Mr. Morgan.
3. Did your mother not love you? DEMON BOOGER SPORE. Listen with your EARRRSSS! I curse you with ear hair!!

On his way back to his seat, Plymouth was sure he had another type of question. He raised his hand as he walked back, "Professor Bridgeman, what about a question that isn't a question at all? But you say something in order to get a response? I do it to my Mumsie ALL the time. I'll be like, "Yo Mum! This water is making noises and popping and stuff!!" and she'll say, "Plymouth .... it's boiling. Just put the noodles in for me." See? I said something dumb -- and got the answers I needed." Plymouth shrugged and sat down. He didn't know much about all these emotional, funnel, questions, and he was a little distracted to pay too much attention - but he felt the need to answer - him being a history genius now and all.

Melanie and Ana answered their questions.

Qaz put her Q&As in the pile with all of the rest.

Herminny had been keeping quiet in class because she was a bit shy but she was doing her work and these are the questions she wrote down on her parchment:

Time period: Different points throughout Xenophilius Lovegood's lifetime
interveiwer:Herminny
Interviewee:Xenophilius Lovegood
Interviewee: Hogwarts Student

What was it like bieng in charge of the news paper, The Quibbler that seemed whacky to most people?

Xenophilius Lovegood: Well, I would not consider The Quibbler whacky, everything I put into the Quibbler is real and is the truth.

Hogwarts Student: Well it could not be great for buisness but it's fun and funny so the Quibbler is a pretty cool newspaper.

What was it like when the Quibbler was ostrisized to the point Head Mistress banned it from Hogwarts for telling Harry Potter's account of Voldemort's return under journalist Reeta Skeeter?

Xenophilius: Well that was a terrible time for me and my daughter, it was tough, but like I said before I will always print what I believe is the truth in my newspaper.

Hogwarts Student: That must have been a terrible time for the Lovegood family but I am glad he was brave enough to print the truth though.

Did you think it was right to attempt to turn Harry Potter in to Death Eaters in attempt to get you're daughter back after she was captured by death eaters?

Xenophilius: It's my daughter, I would do anything for her, I do however feel bad about what I did but my daughter was in danger I had to do something. I am glad how things turned out in the end.

Hogwarts Student: That was so wrong, I do understand why he did it so that gives him brownie points in my book.

-Hogwarts student is me