Family Tree Project (Version 1) Mi árbol familiar

In this chapter, we’ve learned how to talk about the immediate members of your family, as well as how to tell how old
someone is. For your project, I want to learn more about your family. You may use actual pictures, pictures from the Internet,
or draw your own pictures.

In terms of displaying your family, you may use a poster, create a PowerPoint, or a different media of your choice. If you are
going to do something other than the PowerPoint or poster board, however, please let me know so I can approve it. We will
have two days in class to work on this and the project itself will be due at the beginning of class on ______________________.

You must have the following information in your project:

1. You must include grandparents, parents, aunts, uncles, cousins, brothers and sisters, and yourself. If you wish, you
may add other relatives (great-grandparents, nieces and nephews, etc.) as well.
2. You must include a picture to represent each family member.
3. You must also include your relatives’ names. You can do this below the pictures. It must be in Spanish.
4. You must write a description of each family member. Include at least 2 physical characteristics and at least 2
personality traits in Spanish.
5. You must write the ages of your family members, in Spanish. You must write out your numbers in words (i.e.,
“treinta y dos” instead of “32”) in your description.
6. You must include the birthday of each family member in Spanish in your description. For the date, you must write
out the number in words (i.e. “trece” instead of “13”).

This project will be worth 70 points and will be an assessment grade. 55 points will be based off of the correct use of Spanish
and 15 points will be for creativity and neatness. I will be looking closely at the correct use of the family vocabulary, the correct
use of your possessive adjectives (either “mi” or “mis”), your use of adjectives and whether or not you agreed your nouns and
adjectives, correct use of the verb “tener” to express age, and correct use of numbers. Please use your notes as a resource!

If you have any questions while you are working on your project, please e-mail me. My e-mail is ________________________.
If you are doing the PowerPoint, you may send your project to me through e-mail as well. If you want me to look over what
you have written, send it to me. I will mark the mistakes, but I will not correct them for you. If you do not have the project on
________________________, it will be ten points off for each class that it is late.

Here is an example of a description:

Mi madre se llama Linda. Ella es baja y morena. También (also), ella es inteligente y simpática. Ella tiene cincuenta y
cuatro años. Su cumpleaños es el veintiocho de octubre.

¡Buena suerte!
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You will be graded using the following rubric:

Family Tree Grading Rubric

Grammar  55 points Your score

5 points  Grandparents, parents, aunts, uncles, cousins, brothers and
sisters, and self are included on the family tree _______________
5 points  Correct use possessive adjectives _______________
10 points  Correct use of “Se llama…” to give family members’ names _______________
10 points  Correct use of adjectives; nouns and adjectives are in agreement _______________
10 points  Correct use of the verb “tener” to give family members’ ages _______________
5 points  Numbers in family members’ ages are correct _______________
10 points  Relatives’ birthdays are written correctly. _______________
Creativity / Neatness  15 points _______________

Total Score out of 70 _______________

Family Tree Project (Version 2) Mi familia famosa

For this assignment, you are going to create a fictional family composed of famous people. On papel grande, you will draw
your family tree and write a short description of the family members. Please see the rubric below, so that you know exactly
how you will be graded.

You must have the following information in your project:

1. You must include grandparents, parents, aunts, uncles, cousins, brothers and sisters, and yourself. If you wish, you
may add other relatives (great-grandparents, nieces and nephews, etc.) as well. There must be at least 12 people
on your family tree if you work alone, and 18 if you work in pairs.
2. You must include a picture to represent each family member. (Bring from home)
3. You must also include your relatives’ names. You can do this below the pictures. It must be in Spanish.
4. You must write a description of each family member. Include at least 2 physical characteristics, at least 2
personality traits, and nationality, in Spanish.

This project will be worth 45 points and will be a quiz grade. 30 points will be based off of the correct use of Spanish and 15
points will be for creativity and neatness. I will be looking closely at the correct use of the family vocabulary, the correct use of
your possessive adjectives (either “mi” or “mis”), your use of adjectives and whether or not your nouns and adjectives agree in
gender and number. Please use your notes as a resource!

Here is an example of a description:

Mi / Nuestra madre se llama Halle Berry. Ella es baja y morena. También (also), ella es inteligente y simpática. Halle
es estadounidense.

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Mi familia famosa: Rubric

Vocabulary and Grammar  30 points Your score

5 points  Grandparents, parents, aunts, uncles, cousins, brothers and
sisters, and self are included on the family tree _______________
5 points  Correct use possessive adjectives _______________
10 points  Correct use of “Se llama…” to give family members’ names _______________
10 points  Correct use of adjectives; nouns and adjectives are in agreement _______________
Creativity / Neatness  15 points _______________

Total Score out of 45 _______________