(adapted from: Nebraska K-12 Foreign Language
Frameworks:
http://www.nde.state.ne.us/FORLG/Frameworks/Frameworks.pdf p. 90 3/6/2004)
Activity summary: Students create a family to use throughout the
year for a variety of activities on a number of different topics.
Intended level: Beginning; developing
Length of activity: Several class sessions throughout the school
year
Reflects standards: Communication 1.3 Cultures
2.1 Connections 3.2
Community 5.1
Materials needed: Folders, family tree, city information chart,
resources with information about specific cities, magazines, scissors, glue
How students work: Individually
Steps for Planning and Implementation:
- Students create a family using the family graphic organizer provided.
Students decide the name, age, and occupation for each family member and
fill in the family tree.
- Students cut out pictures in magazines of each family member, paste them
on paper, and label them to create a family tree.
- Students choose a city where the family lives. Using information from a
variety of sources—such as, travel books, Internet, library
resources—students fill in a city information chart.
- Students write a short paper on the family in the target language,
including information from the family tree and a city information chart.
- Students present the family to the class in the form of an oral
presentation in the target language, showing the members of the family and
telling a little about each family member and the city in which the family
lives.
- Throughout the school year, the family is revisited a number of times
through a variety of different topics; for example, housing—students create
a dwelling for the family, furnishing it and describing the furnishings and
where they are located; body parts— students describe what the family
members look like; summer vacation—students describe what the family will do
on their summer vacation; shopping—students describe the family’s trip to a
grocery store or shopping for new clothes.
Youth Forum Extension:
Sign up for My Family
[Newsletter] project. Set up your teacher instructions in the first
story (e.g., Instructions for this Project.) Then set up one story for
each student in the class (e.g., Mary Jones's Family, Seiji Hamanishi's
Family, etc.). Have the students go to their story in the My Family
Newsletter project and describe their made-up family. After they complete
their family photo collage, they can scan it into the computer and add it
to their story (just one photo per story).
Later in the year, sign up for the My Family's Home [Gallery]
project. Let each student attach a picture (scanned in) of the family home
and describe it in the gallery.
Before summer vacation, sign up for the My Family's Vacation
[Gallery] project. Let each student attach a picture (scanned in) of
the place in the world or U.S. where their family will go on vacation. |
