Family Tree Project

Your tree The tree can be your own family, a celebrity family, a cartoon family, a made-up family. The objective is for you to use French & be able to describe people. If you do not feel comfortable using your own family, you don’t have to. But you still have to do the project, so find another family that you want to use.

10 People Each person will have the following information listed (in French): –My _______ (relationship) (ex: Mon Pere, Ma Mere) –His/her name is ____________.(ex: Il s’appelle________/Elle s’appelle_____) –He/She is __________ years old. (ex: Il a ___ ans/ Elle a ___ ans) –One sentence describing his/her physical traits. (Ex: Il a les cheveux ____. Il a les yeux____.) –One sentence describing his/her personality (ex: Il est paresseux. Elle est timide.)

Completing The Project You will be given class time to complete the project. Use the time wisely and help each other during peer edits. Please include pictures (It doesn’t have to be drawings of your family, just something to represent each person besides a dot) Get creative and use COLOR Should be completed on an 8x11 sheet of paper

Assignment Steps 1. Decide who you will include in your family tree. 2. Draw a rough draft connecting the family members. Just write their names. 3. On a separate sheet of paper, start writing the text portion for your family members in French. 4. Have someone correct your text and check your family tree connections 5. Finish good copy to be handed in

Mon grand-père Il s’appelle Chet. Il est mort. Il a les cheveux gris. Il est interessant. Ma grande-mère Elle s’appelle Marilyn. Elle est mort. Elle est petite. Elle est sympa. Moi Je ma’ppelle Nicole. Je suis intelligente. J’ai les cheveux bruns J’ai trente-deux ans. Ma soeur Elle s’appelle Heather. Elle est amusante. Elle a les cheveux bruns aussi. Elle a 29 ans. Ma mère Elle s’appelle Holly Elle a 53 ans. Elle est bavarde. Elle a les cheveux roux. Mon père Il s’appelle David. Il a 54 ans Il a les cheveux frises. Il est ponctuel. Ma tante Elle s’appelle Doanne. Elle a 60 ans. Elle est grande. Elle est travailleuse. Mon oncle Il s’appelle Winkie. Il a 63 ans. Il a les yeux bruns Il est comique. Ma cousine Elle s’appelle Holly. Elle a 21 ans. Elle est organisee Elle est grande. Mon oncle Il s’appelle Chet. Il a 50 ans. Il a les cheveux raides. Il est intelligent.

Connecting Family Members Solid line connects two people who are married. Also used to connect them to their children. Dotted line connects two people who are not married, but have children together. Be careful not to connect siblings with any lines - you are related, not married!

Divorced relatives AnneDaveJenniferSteve DonnaME Ben Dave & Jennifer were married & had two kids - me & my brother Ben. They divorced. Dave remarried Anne (my stepmom) and they had Donna, my half-sister. Anne already had a son, Luke (my step-brother). My mom remarried Steve, but they didn’t have any more kids. Luke

Assessment Rubric GradeOutcomes Assessed suivre des directives de plus en plus longues (follow multi-step directions) Décrire les traits physiques et personnalités (describe physical and personality traits) se corriger (correct and revise) Produire une variété de textes en se servant du présent (produce a variety of texts in the present tense)