Final senior Project  fotobuch
Objective:
To make a photo-essay of your school career.
Supplied Materials:
computer lab time and power point
Materials you need to supply:
All photos taken with your digital camera.
Procedure:
Take at least 25 photos.
Photos should be meaningful and representative of your school career.
Write captions in German
Date
Display the pictures in a presentation (scrapbook, power point, photo story, movie
maker, etc.).
Each photo must have a caption with a minimum of 3 good, level-5 sentences
Include the typed and edited captions in German.
PROJECT DUE ON
______________
Present the album verbally in class.
Speak about 10 of the pictures without using notes and without
reading directly from the caption.
PRESENTATIONS ON
__________________
Work to be completed

Captions 1-15;
3 sentences per caption including the
grammar point specified. (15 Punkte)

Frau can answer any questions prior
to this date

Captions 16-30;
Choose any 10 captions; 3 sentences
per caption including the grammar
point specified. (10 Punkte)

All 25 pictures (5 Punkte)

Frau can only answer questions
between 10/31-11/26 on these
captions
10 points extra credit if
completed project is turned in
Completed Fotobuch is DUE!
Presentation Week
Student
completion
Captions
Pictures 1-15 mandatory
*1. a picture of your name
made out of some objects
Due:
Grammar Item to be
graded
Present tense – Why did you
choose these items
(playing cards, tooth picks, flowers,
pennies, etc.)
*2. your elementary school
Past Perfect tense – Tell me
what you had done and tell
the events of that incident
*3. your intermediate/middle Imperfect tense – Tell me
school
something that you always did
there, describe it
*4. your high school
Present perfect – Tell me what
you have done
*5. a Spring Grove Rocket
Informal/Formal Commands –
Write a poem telling how the
rocket represents the school
*6. a picture of your best
friend(s)
Future tense – How will this
person be a part of your life in
the future
Name:
(GOOD SENTENCES FLOW WELL AND DO NOT USE ONLY BASIC
VOCABULARY!)
*7. a picture of your locker
Conditional form - Tell me
what you would do if could do
anything to your locker
*8. a picture of the school
clock at release time
Time expression & reflexive
verb – How does this time
make you feel
*9. a picture of the words
“Auf Wiedersehen” written
on a school marker board.
Formal commands – tell
everyone how to act when it
comes time to say goodbye
*10. a picture of you in Spring
Grove apparel or senior Tshirt.
Reflexive verb – Tell how you
look in the SG apparel
For the following:
a person, an activity, an area, or an object representing:
*11. your freshman year
Nominative case – use “weil”
and a past tense
*12. your sophomore year
Accusative case – use “denn”
and a past tense
*13. your junior year
Dative case – use “weil” and a
past tense
*14. your senior year
Genitive case – use present
tense
*15. a picture of something
representing your future
plans
Future tense
CHOOSE 10 OF THE FOLLOWING
16. your house
present tense
17. your room
Prepositional phrases and
furniture
18. your family
Possessive pronouns and
present tense
19. a picture of the book or
notebook used in your
favorite class.
Genitive case and present
tense
20. your favorite male
teacher
Possessive pronoun, “denn”
and any appropriate tense
21. Your favorite female
teacher
Possessive pronoun, “weil”
and any appropriate tense
22. The key chain or license
plate of your car.
Relative clauses in any case
and any appropriate tense
23. the front page of a
current newspaper
Past tense
24. a picture of your
sport/hobby
Informal Command or modal
verbs
25. a picture at work/church
Formal Command or modal
verbs
26. a picture of a pet
Conditional tense.
27. a picture of your most
treasured possession.
Present perfect tense
28. a picture of you going out
the door of SGAHS
Prepositional phrases
29. a picture of your
graduating year made out of
objects
Future Tense and adjective
endings
30. a picture of your favorite
school facility: classroom,
cafeteria, gym, football
stadium, track, band room,
library, etc.
Reflexive verb
Scoring Rubric
Pictures
25 Pictures......................................................................0 pictures
25 points
0 points
Speaking
See Separate Rubric 20 points
Album/Presentation 20 points
18-20
15-17
12-14
8-11
0-7
TOTAL
140 PTS.
Very creative. Very neat work.
Some creativity demonstrated. Could be neater, but generally neat.
Work on creativity; take more time. Work on neatness.
Appears to be done in a hurry without much thought to creativity. Sloppy work.
Did you look at this before you turned it in???
German Captions x 15 = 75 points
3 Points for paragraph
No errors in grammar or mechanics. No more than two spelling errors. A wide variety of vocabulary used. Response is easily comprehensible; errors do
not interfere with communication. Response is well-organized with complete sentences. Response demonstrates willingness to take risks with much
information conveyed.
2 points for paragraph
Some errors in grammar causing confusion of meaning various times. Spelling needs work. Use care in choosing the amount of vocabulary. Response is
comprehensible with some errors that interfere with communication. Response is somewhat organized with simple sentences. Response demonstrates
some risk-taking with a moderate amount of information conveyed.
1 point for paragraph
Number of errors in grammar makes reading difficult. Many spelling errors. Very few vocabulary words used. Response is minimally comprehensible
with many errors that interfere with communication. Response is poorly organized with sentence fragments or isolated words. Response demonstrates
no risk-taking with a minimal amount of information conveyed.
PHOTOGRAPH RECORD
Have person
sign off for
permission to
use his/her
picture
PHOTOS 1-15 ARE REQUIRED
TAKE A PICTURE OF:
1. your name made of some objects (playing cards, tooth picks, flowers, pennies, etc.)
2. your elementary school
3. your intermediate / middle school
4. your high school
5. a Spring Grove Rocket
6. your best friend(s)
7. your locker
8. the school clock at release time
9. the words “Auf Wiedersehen” written on a school marker board
10. you in Spring Grove apparel or senior T-shirt
A person (teacher, friend, classmate), an activity, an area, or an object representing:
11. your freshman year
12. your sophomore year
13. your junior year
14. your senior year
15. your future plans
CHOOSE 10 OF THE FOLLOWING
16. your house
17. your room
18. your family
19. the book or notebook used in your favorite class
20. your favorite male teacher
21. your favorite female teacher
22. the key chain or license plate of your car
23. the front page of a current newspaper
24. your sport / hobby
25. your place of work / church (can include you in the picture)
26 a pet
27. your most treasured possession
28. you going out the door of SGAHS
29. your graduating year made of objects
30. the place in school where you spent the most time – (caf, gym, classroom, band
room, library, etc.)