Focus QuestionIs it safer now or then (pick a time in last 60 years)?

Now and ThenAn interview Assignment

Activity • The problem of crime in America varies from place to place

and from generation to generation. In this activity, students interview a parent or older person and compare this person’s experience with crime growing up to their own.

All students should:A. Read and answer for themselves the Interview Questions, on a separate sheet of paper.B. Find a parent or older person to interview. Ask and record their answers to the same questions on another sheet of paperC. Write two/three paragraph essay (1 page) comparing their responses to those of the person they interviewed.D. Staple all the pages together to be turned in.

Interview Questions• 1. When were you born?• 2. As a young person, where (did, do) you live?• 3. Did you feel safe in your neighborhood? Describe crimes, if

any, that took place in your neighborhood.• 4. Did you feel safe at school? Describe crimes or major

incidents of misbehavior that took place in your school.• 5. What crime story from the media most impressed you when

you were growing up?• 6. Do you think it was safer then or now? Why?