COMMUNITY PLANNING PROJECT (ITALIAN)

Subject/Level: Italian, Level 1

Unit: Community and Neighborhood

Prior Learning: Students are familiar with vocabulary for places in the community, activities around town, and uses of the verb andare

Assessment Objectives: Students will demonstrate the ability to:

1. use vocabulary for areas and resources of the community

2. describe community activities and needs

3. conjugate the verbs essere / stare / avere / andare in the present tense

4. present a persuasive presentation appropriate to task and audience

5. plan and structure a project by setting goals and maintaining organization

6. present a proposal using appropriate visual aids (This project can be modified to a poster or essay type format if preferred.)

Standards: Communication, Connections, Communities

L1: Demonstrate command of conventions and grammar when writing and speaking

L2: Demonstrate command of conventions of capitalization, punctuation, and spelling when writing

L3: Apply knowledge of language functions in order to affect comprehension and expression across contexts

L4: Extract meaning from unknown words and phrases using context clues, word parts, and appropriate references

W2: Write a sequential, organized text to inform

W4: Present information clearly demonstrating consideration of perspective, purpose, and audience

W5: Develop and strengthen writing through planning, revising, editing, rewriting or trying a new approach

W6: Use a variety of media to produce and publish writing and to interact and collaborate with others

W10: Write frequently on a variety of topics for a variety of purposes

SL1: Participate effectively in a range of conversations demonstrating the ability to understand the ideas of others and clearly express your own

SL2: Evaluate and use information from diverse media to understand and communicate

SL3: Evaluate a speaker’s perspective, purpose and audience by the use of rhetoric, tone, and non-verbal cues

SL4: Present information in a clear, organized fashion appropriate to task and culture

SL5: Use visual and digital media to enhance presentations

SL6: Adapt speech to a variety of contexts, audiences, and situations using the culturally appropriate registers and conventions

Materials Used: project description and instructions, rough draft graphic organizer, rubrics, peer observation form

Assessment Overview:

1. Students plan a presentation which includes an identified community problem or area in need of improvement and a possible solution.

2. Students prepare a persuasive and informative presentation in order to lobby for a community development project. Presentations should include:

 a clearly identified problem or area in need of improvement

 a development project designed to address the problem

 supporting details to persuade the audience in favor of the project

3. Students add visuals to aid presentation of proposal.