But I THINK I came up with this idea on my own last year. Now, if you read this post and recognize this idea, please let me know and I'll give credit where credit is due!
In Spanish IV, we finished up the year reading La Guerra Sucia by Nathaniel Kirby. While we read the novel, we watched the Argentine movie Cautiva. It is a great movie about a young girl who has been raised by a wealthy family and then discovers that she is actually the daughter of a couple that was "disappeared" during the Dirty War. As part of their unit assessment, I wanted to include something about the movie, but not make it too heavy on the writing as they were also going to do a comparison essay between the Dirty War and the disappearance of 43 students from Ayotzinapa, Mexico that occurred in September of 2014.
So here is what they ended up doing:
The instructions are for students to complete the movie poster. In the first box, they write just a few words to describe the film. In the second box, they write a short synopsis. In the box at the bottom, they must pose a question. I told them that it was their job to attract the public to see this film. It was a very effective and creative way to see students' understanding of the movie and have them express themselves in the target language.
Here is a link to a full-size copy on a Google doc.
