Proyecto: Qu mascotas tenas?

Standards Addressed:
Communication (From the ACTFL World Readiness Standards):
Interpersonal Communication: Learners interact and negotiate meaning in spoken, signed, or written
conversations to share information, reactions, feelings, and opinions.
Interpretive Communication: Learners understand, interpret, and analyze what is heard, read, or viewed
on a variety of topics.
Presentational Communication: Learners present information, concepts, and ideas to inform, explain,
persuade, and narrate on a variety of topics using appropriate media and adapting to various audiences of
listeners, readers, or viewers.

Overarching Objectives:
Students will be able to utilize current vocabulary and the imperfect verb tense to answer questions about
their life then they were younger
Communicative Tasks:
Interpersonal/Interpretive Communication: Students will ask each other Qu mascotas tenas? and complete
a chart based on the interpreted meaning
Interpersonal Communication: Students will answer another students question regarding the pets they had
as a child based on their own personal experience
Presentational Communication: Students will present their completed bar graph to the class
Learning Outcomes:
Students will be able to ask each other what pets they had when they were younger
Students will be able to properly respond to inquiries regarding the pets they did or did not have when they
were younger
Students will be able to aggregate data in a table based on their answers in Spanish
Students will be able to graphically represent the pets that their group had when they were younger
Performance Outcomes:
Students will create a bar graph representing the pets that their group had when they were younger
Presentational Communication: Students will present their final bar graph to the class in the target language
Nombre ______________________ Fecha
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Qu mascotas tenas?
Nombre: un gato un perro una un pez un un otra?
tortuga conejillo ratoncito
de Indias

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Las direcciones:

1. Get into groups of 6 or 7.

2. Write the names of your group members under the column titled nombre

3. Sit in a circle and select one group member to start by asking another group member the
question:

(Nombre), qu mascota tenas cuando eras nio/a?

The group member (to whom the question was asked) will respond to the question based
on the pets that he/she had as a child. For example:

Yo tena un gato y una tortuga de nia o Yo no tena mascotas de nia

Take turns asking questions until everyone has asked and answered the question.

4. Based on your fellow, group members response, write an X in the box that
corresponds to the pet that he/she had.

5. Once the chart is complete and each group member has asked and answered the
question, its time to compile the data.

Cuntas personas
6. As a group, compile the data to figure out tenan ______?
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how many group members had each pet. Fill un gato
out la tabla to the right. un perro
una tortuga
un pez
7. Using the data you compiled, create a large un conejillo de indias
grfico de barras on the chart paper provided un ratoncito
to you. otra mascota
Label the X-axis mascota and the Y-axis nmero de personas
Dont forget to include a title! (An acceptable title could be something as simple as Las
mascotas de grupo 3)
Use markers and illustrations to make your grfico de barras as creative as possible.

8. Present your grfico to the class!

Every person in your group must speak during the presentation.
Make sure you include the following items during your presentation:
An introduction of your group and your group members
o Hola, nosotros somos grupo ____....
o (each group member) Yo soy ____
El ttulo de nuestro grfico es ___________
La mascota ms popular de nuestro grupo era..
La mascota menos popular de nuestro grupo era
___________personas tenan un gato (repeat this sentence for each pet)

RUBRIC: Each group member will receive the same grade.

 Excellent Average Below Expectations
10 puntos 5 puntos 0 puntos
Creativity/Neatness The bar graph is very The bar graph is colorful, The bar graph is not
colorful, lines and lines and handwriting are colorful and it is not
handwriting are neat. fairly neat. neatly done. There are
There are many pictures There are some pictures no pictures on the graph.
(5+) on the graph. on the graph.

Bar Graph X- and Y- axis are X- and Y-axis are mostly

X- and Y-axis are
correctly labeled. correct. incorrectly labeled or
Title is appropriate and Title is appropriate and
labels are missing.
present on the top of the present on the top of the
Title is not appropriate
graph. Spelling is correct graph. There may be a for graph or there is no
few spelling errors. title. There are many
spelling errors.
Oral Presentation Each group member Each group member Not all group members
speaks during the speaks during the spoke during the
presentation. Each of the presentation. Each of the presentation. Group did
necessary items is necessary items is not cover all the
included in the included in the necessary items in the
presentation. Group presentation. Group oral presentation. Group
members spoke members did not speak members could barely be
confidently and at proper confidently or at an heard/spoke in English.
volume. Good acceptable volume.
pronunciation. Pronunciation needs
improvement.
Data Collection Each group member Not all group members
participated in the data participated in the data
collection phase by collection phase or group
asking and answering the members spoke English.
necessary questions IN Group member data does
SPANISH. Group member not match the data
data matches the data present on the graph.
present on the graph.
Total ______________ / 40 puntos