Final Project

I am in an rural school setting, a 9th grad classroom where technology is 1-1 for students. For my final project I've created a unit where students learn irregular "yo" verbs in Spanish, they practice these verbs and as part of their final project, they create a story book with sentences using the "yo verbs". I've also added an element of differentiation to this unit because students will have different ways they want to present and create their story books. They can use an online story creator, they can draw the images and create their story book by hand and then video themselves turning through the book or they can create a powerpoint or a prezi presentation to model their story book.

The authenticity of this unit comes from the fact that students will be reading their stories to a class of Spanish immersion first graders. This is a great project to involve creative ideas as well as Spanish writing skills.

To assess the stories, I've created a rubric that outlines the expectations for every sentence a student creates. The sentence needs to have a subject, the subject needs to be "yo", the verb needs to be from our irregulars, ect. This rubric is set up where it's either a yes they have the element or no they do not. For grading, I believe this takes out the opinion piece and allows the grades to be assigned based on how the story met the standards.