L’Ecusson de la famille Due____________

(Family Crest Assignment)

Assignment: Students will collaborate with French class family members to design a “family crest” for display in the classroom. Crests will be presented orally to the class, with each family member introducing another family member.(Each person must speak).

Purpose: To practice describing people and situations orally and in writing (interpersonal, interpretive, and presentational modes)

Directions:

1. On the poster board provided, each family will design a crest to represent their family, and provide information about each family member within the crest. Information should include: name, age, family role (if chosen yet), likes and dislikes, two physical and two personality attributes for EACH family member.

2. Be creative. You may use “artistic license” in the design of the crest, but the crest must fit on (or be cut from) the poster board provided AND the writing on the poster must be entirely in French.

3. Before beginning the project, assign a working role for purposes of this project to each of your family members:

• Artist (oversees the poster design)
• Recorder (writes down information decided upon and shared with the group)
• Speaker& Time Keeper (is designated to speak for the group as a whole if the group ahs a question for the teacher (etc.) and also keeps track of time and work flow for the group

4. Turn in your crest and practice your oral introductions of each other to the class. (Rubric on back)

Each group member will receive the same grade, which is a combined grade for both the family crest (poster) and the oral introduction of family members.

Family Crest Project Self/Group Assessment: Name__________________

Answer the following questions:

• My working group role for this project was _________________.

• I contributed to the project as a whole by__________________.

• What I learned from this project_________________________

• What my group did particularly well:_______________________

• What my group needs to improve on is______________________

• I would give my group a grade of ____________for the poster and a grade of _____________for the spoken introductions.

Project rubric: 4 3 2 1

Poster is neat and attractive and all words are in correct French.

Poster includes all required information and provides a quantity of interesting information about family members.

Each family member contributed to the project.

Each family member presented another family member to the class in an understandable way and without using any English.