Lesson 6: La famiglia
Duration of Days: 5
Lesson Objective
Students will be able to identify a variety of family vocabulary words
Students will be able to talk about family members and the way they are related to one another
Students will be able to use terms of family relationships
Students will be able to engage in a conversation about their family
What makes up a family?
Have student look at the family tree ask questions (¿Come si chiama il nonno?)
1.2 Understand language
1.1 Engage in conversation
1.3 Present information
Learn about the family structure in Italy and how it might differ from the US. Identify a variety of family members and how they are related to each other. Understand the structure of a family tree. Construct their own family tree.
DOK 1: The teacher describes a relationship (e.g., "Il figlio di mia zia è mio..."). Students must hold the relationship in their mind and provide the answer (cugino).
DOK 2: Students take a list of relatives and change them to the opposite gender or plural (e.g., lo zio \ la zia; il fratello \ i fratelli).
DOK 3: Students write a description of their own family. They then use a checklist to Self-Monitor for the specific rule: "Did I include the article for plural family members (i miei fratelli) but remove it for singular ones (mio fratello)?"
DOK 4: students investigate how the "traditional" Italian family structure has changed over the last 50 years (e.g., the rise of i mammoni or smaller household sizes). They compare this to U.S. trends.
writing skills- ask students write a short paragraph about their family members
Teacher selected formative and summative assessments.