Spanish III

La casa de mis sueños

Design your dream house!

Part I: The floor plan (20 pts.)

Your house must include the following:

A. INTERIOR
a. Your floor plan must have 8 rooms
b. Each room must have 3-5 pieces of furniture
c. Everything should be clearly labeled in Spanish with appropriate definite article.
B. EXTERIOR
a. Garage, garden, and 3 other features labeled (Ex. a fountain, a pool, Jacuzzi, balcony, sauna,
tennis court, b-ball court, etc.)
b. Be creative with your design and color the house plans.

Part II: El anuncio (30 pts.)

Write an advertisement (anuncio) to sale or rent your house:

A. Explain where it is located, how it is, how many rooms, how many pieces of furniture does it have
B. Use many details to describe your house (including the exterior) using adjectives such as:
magnífico(a), lujoso(a), acogedor(a), etc.
C. Include a for rent or for sale price: (ex. $500 per week, per month, etc. or 350 K)
D. Date(s) available.
E. Your anuncio must be a 20 sentences (minimum) paragraph. Must include transition words, such
as también, sin embargo, y, porque, etc.
(For transition words in Spanish visit http://users.wpi.edu/~arivera/transi.html)
F. Your final “anuncio” must be framed to a separate piece of colored paper.

Due Dates:

 The Rough draft counts as a HW assignment and must be turned in before the final is accepted.
_____01____ ___27-28____ Floor Plan: Exterior and interior drawn and labeled in pencil
____01_____ ___27-28____Anuncio: Typed double-spaced in 12 pt. font for editing.

____01_____ ____31____FINAL PROJECT DUE

You will be graded on neatness, organization, grammar, vocabulary, spelling, and content. Follow
the above directions and do your best!!!
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Final Rubric: La casa de mis sueños

Anuncio 5 4 3 2 1

Description of Description of Description of Description of Description of

house includes all house is missing house is missing house is missing house is missing
of the elements: one of the two of elements: three of the four of the
Interior, exterior, elements: Interior,
Content Interior, exterior, elements: Interior, elements: Interior,
price, date of exterior, price,
availability, date of availability, price, date of exterior, price, exterior, price, date
location location availability, date of availability, of availability,
location location location

Description has 20 Description has 19- Description has 15- Description has 12- Description has 10
Length or more sentences 17 sentences. 13 sentences 10 sentences sentences or less

Excellent use of Good use of Fair use of Poor use of Excessive errors on
grammatical grammatical grammatical grammatical grammatical
structures i.e. structures i.e. structures i.e. structures i.e. structures i.e.
subject/verb subject/verb subject/verb subject/verb subject/verb
agreement, agreement, agreement, agreement, agreement,
Grammar noun/adjective noun/adjective noun/adjective noun/adjective noun/adjective
agreement, correct agreement, correct agreement, correct agreement, correct agreement, correct
word order and word order and word order and word order and word order and
ser/estar verbs. ser/estar verbs. ser/estar verbs. ser/estar verbs. ser/estar verbs.
Errors impede
comprehension.

Interesting & Effectively conveys Ordinary Monotonous Limited vocabulary.

natural. Vivid message. Varied expressions. Seems expression. Misused words.
expression. and functional, forced or overly Distracts from Vague and
Creative & varied. Unnatural at times. simplistic. Some meaning. Poor inappropriate.
Clear images. Good use of inaccurate word imaging, lacks Impedes meaning.
Accurate and adjectives & usage. specificity. Excessive error in
specific. transitions Fair use of Poor use of the use of
Excellent use of adjectives and adjectives & adjectives &
Vocabulary adjective & transitions transitions transitions
transitions

Strong control of Basic control of Limited control of Little control over Errors overwhelm
Conventions conventions. conventions. Minor conventions. conventions. the message.
(punctuation, Description has no errors don’t affect Distracting errors. Mistakes make the Description has
capitalization & more than 4 errors readability. Description has 10- description difficult more than 20
Spelling) Description has 5-8 15 errors. to read. errors.
error Description has 16-
19 errors.
Anuncio is framed Anuncio is framed Anuncio is framed Anuncio is framed Anuncio is not
in a separate piece in a separate piece in a separate piece in a separate piece framed in a
of paper. Excellent of paper. Good of paper. Layout is of paper. The separate piece of
Framed Anuncio presentation, neat presentation and good, but design is presentation is paper. Poor
well design and design; good bland. disorganized &/or presentation.
organized. layout. layout is absolute
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Floor Plan 5 4 3 2 1

Content: Interior The floor plan has The floor plan is The floor plan is The floor plan is The floor plan is
all the interior missing no more missing 3-5 interior missing 6-8 interior missing more than
elements: 8 rooms, than two interior elements: 8 elements: 8 rooms, 9 interior
2 pieces of elements: 8 rooms, rooms, 2 pieces of 2 pieces of elements: 8 rooms,
furniture p/room 2 pieces of furniture p/room furniture p/room 2 pieces of
(12 diff. pieces of furniture p/room (12 diff. pieces of (12 diff. pieces of furniture p/room
furniture) are (12 diff. pieces of furniture) are furniture) are (12 diff. pieces of
labeled furniture) are labeled labeled furniture)are
labeled labeled

Content: Exterior The floor plan has The floor plan is The floor plan is The floor plan is The floor plan is
all the exterior missing one missing two missing three missing more than
elements: garage, element: garage, elements: garage, elements: garage, four elements:
garden, and 3 garden, and 3 garden, and 3 garden, and 3 garage, garden,
other features other features other features other features and 3 other
labeled labeled labeled labeled features labeled

Creativity Excellent original Original floor plan; Original floor plan; Floor plan may not Floor plan is
floor plan; detailed, somewhat be detailed, neither original,
detailed, attractive, creative detailed, attractive attractive or nor detailed nor
attractive, creative & consistent. Floor & may lack color, colorful. Floor plan relate to text, or all
& consistent. Floor plan relates to but it relates to relates to text on of above.
plan relates to text. text. page, but may not
text. be consistent.

Neatness Neat, colorful, Neat, colorful, Colorful, may have Sloppy, but Unidentifiable, not
obvious effort, well mostly identifiable an unidentifiable, colorful, a couple much thought put
design and figures, very good objects, layout is of poorly made into design,
organized, layout & good, but design is items, disorganized incomplete, poor
excellent layout. organization bland &/or layout is design
absolute

Anuncio: ____________________/30 pts.

Floor Plan: _________________/20 pts.

Total: _______________________/ 50 pts.