Are you looking for something beyond a family tree for your familia unit? How about a children's book? There are LOTS of real world examples you can look at before AND it's a perfect authentic task.
Check out my last post to see which books (hello authentic resources!) I used with students before we created our own. They also had lots of practice with personality and physical descriptions during this unit.
This project was a summative assessment grade. I didn't want them using translators or AI so I gave them a paper graphic organizer for their children's books that they filled out in class, Chromebooks closed. This gave me a good idea of what they could really do with the language and it prevented me from giving them a grade based on how pretty they made their children's book. This is a language class, not a design class, so even though some students made some amazing looking books they might have only gotten a B based on their language. We are an IB school so I used an IB MYP Language Acquisition rubric but any proficiency based rubric would work for this project.
I graded their graphic organizers, made corrections, and after I handed it back, students got started on their books. Despite already having their grade, students were still invested in creating their books for several reasons.
1) They were getting to be creative and play around in Canva. I had students who can be less than excited about Spanish class getting very involved in creating their books.
2) I told them before we started that these books had a real audience - we would be sending them to my Spanish teacher colleague at one the elementary schools where they still had Spanish.* Many students have younger siblings or family members and the thought of someone their age getting to read their book motivated them.
3) My school gives students two types of grades. Achievement grades show they have or have not learned the content and attitudes towards learning grades show how they are doing in regards to study skills. In this case they were being graded on organizing and depicting information logically.
I told them they did not have to do their own families (although some did and they turned out great!) They did not even have to do real people. They could be as creative and weird as they wanted. And y'all these kids did not disappoint!
I wish I could take credit for this idea but it came straight from my district curriculum framework. We ran out of time but it was also suggested to add the interpersonal mode by having a "book signing." Students would read their books and their classmates would ask them questions about their own families. You could do this as a gallery walk so that no one person is reading in front of everyone.
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