La casa antes de la fiesta (Novice High - MS)
For the second project this trimester, students of the Novice High middle-school class were given the following task:
“Your family is having a party at your house tonight, but your house is a mess. Therefore, you need to help get everything ready. You need to create a schedule dictating which chores in which rooms and when in order to speed the cleaning process and make sure you don't forget anything. Then meet with your family members to tell them what you will be taking care of to make sure everything that needs to be done will be.”
First, students created a schedule fir their family and themselves, which included at least 8 chores, as well as pictorial representations of the chores, the family members and the room in which the chores had to be done.
Then, students wrote a text with a list with the chores to be done, who will do them, when and why. They had to use the structures TENER QUE, to talk about what had to be done; and IR A to talk about when the chores would be done.
Finally, students presented their plan to the class, using only their schedules, and addressing their “family members” directly. They also had to be prepared to answers questions form their family.
