Geometry

City Project-Parallel Lines

Your group will strategically design a city. You will include the specific buildings listed below. You can choose
where to place each building but you must have a good reason for choosing that location. Your reasons should
explain the relationship between this building and others.

Each person will design one quadrant of the city.

Each section of the city must have these features in its layout:
1.) 6 streets parallel to at least one other street, named
2.) 2 transversal streets, named

The following buildings must be in EACH QUADRANT of your city and you must justify why you
chose to place them where you did. Plan this first, then start constructing the city. It may be hard
to find 12 angle relationships that make sense with only 12 buildings.
This is why you have partners.
1.) Your house 7.) Movie Theater
2.) High School 8.) Restaurant
3.) Courthouse or City Hall or Library or Jail 9 and 10.) Two gas stations
4.) Bank 11.) An elementary school
5.) Grocery Store 12.) Place of Worship
6.) A park


You must describe your city by writing about the angle relationships in it.
Describe 2 of each type of angle relationship by naming the buildings that are located as
1) Vertical
2) A Linear Pair
3) Alternate Interior
4) Alternate Exterior
5) Consecutive Interior
6) Corresponding
and explain why you chose to build them in those locations. Use the street names and refer to the
streets as parallels or a transversal.

For example:
The __________ and the ___________ are on _____Street, which is a transversal, between the
parallel _____ and _____ Streets. We placed them________ to each other because __________.


Each building must be labeled or a picture of the building should be used. Your final project will be
turned in on construction paper or a poster paper. You may also do the whole project on a
computer but it needs to be printed and pasted onto a poster board. The buildings can be drawn or
cut out from pictures. Either way, it must be colorful. All land lots that occupy congruent spaces
must be color-coded so they match. The building can be any color as long as the land beneath it
is visible. The supplementary angles should automatically end up color-coded so theyre different
colors from each other. Provide a legend that tells me what each color means.


Group Members


Phone Numbers


Email Addresses


Responsibilities
to the group
-Grade 1 other
persons quadrant
by the rubric
-Check Grammar
on everybodys
work
-Grade 1 other
persons quadrant
by the rubric
- check correctness
of angle
relationships on
everybodys work
-Grade 1 other
persons quadrant
by the rubric
- check
coordination
between quadrants
-co-draft the
presentation
-Grade 1 other
persons quadrant
by the rubric
-check that all
requirements are
met on time
-co-draft the
presentation

Timeline:
Sept 24/25- Intro to Project and Requirements
Sept 27 (Fri)- time to work together in class to design street layout
Oct 1/2 (Tues/Wed)- Streets, names, and color-coded lots should be done!!!
Time to work in class on placing buildings. Would be helpful to have cut
outs to represent buildings. Keep track of angle relationships as you go.
Oct 4 (Fri)- Explanations should be done in sentences. Give your map and explanations to your
Checker. WEEKEND HOMEWORK: Check each others work against the rubric.
Oct 8/9 (Tues/Wed)- PROJECTS DUE!!!! PRESENTATIONS BEGIN. 5-10 minutes each.


GROUP GRADES Emerging
1
Developing
2
Proficient
3
Advanced
4
Map Submitted with
Legend and City Info
4 quadrants
submitted
separately
4 quadrants
submitted together
4 quadrants
submitted
together. Names
for each quadrant.
Placed neatly.
Proficient plus
evidence of
neighborhood
characteristics
and themes.
Quadrants Coalesced
as a City
Not at all;
random mess.

Slightly.
Some streets
continued through
the city. Some
buildings make
sense between
quadrants.
Streets were fully
coordinated.
Buildings showed
significant
strategizing
between
quadrants.
Fully coordinated
streets and
building locations
between
quadrants.
Presentation
Attempted but
clearly unplanned.
Planned but one or
more group
Everybody can
speak about their
Proficient plus
group can explain
member seemed
unknowledgeable
about their own
work and/or its place
in the groups
projects.
own quadrant
AND communicate
how it fits into the
larger citys map.
how their design
promotes certain
cultural aspects in
their city, giving it
character.





Individual Grading Name:_________________________________
Criteria Emerging 1 Developing 2 Proficient 3 Advanced 4 Your Points
Parallel streets 2 streets
parallel to
each other
4 streets that
are parallel to
at least 1
other street
5 streets that are
parallel to at least
1 other street and
additional streets
that are not
parallel
6 streets that
are parallel to
at least 1 other
street

Transversal

1 transversal 1 transversal,
named
2 transversals 2 transversals,
named

Aesthetic
Quality
Legible
Neat but not
colorful
Neat, colorful,
and buildings
resemble real
versions.
Beautiful.
Worthy of being
hung up on the
wall.

Congruent
Angles are
Color-coded
Identifies at
least two
congruent
angles
Forgets or
mis-colors
more than 2
angles
Forgets or
mis-colors 1
or 2 angles
Identifies all
congruent angles
with the same
colors and
provides a
legend.

Supplementary
Angles are
Color-coded
Identifies at least
two angles that
are
supplementary
to the angles
identified above.
Forgets or
mis-colors
more than 2
angles
Forgets or
mis-colors 1
or 2 angles
Identifies all pairs
of
supplementary
angles by color-
coding correctly
and providing a
legend.

Vertical
(Pair 1 and Pair
2 graded
separately and
each worth 4
points)
Identifies two
locations
incorrectly
Identifies two
locations
correctly.
Identifies two
locations
correctly,
names the
intersecting
streets
correctly.
Identifies two
locations
correctly, names
the intersecting
streets correctly.
Also justifies why
those locations
were chosen.



Linear Pair
(Pair 1 and Pair 2
graded
separately and
each worth 4
points)
Identifies two
locations
incorrectly
Identifies two
locations
correctly.
Identifies two
locations
correctly, names
the intersecting
streets correctly.
Identifies two
locations correctly,
names the
intersecting streets
correctly. Justifies.


Corresponding
(Pair 1 and
Pair 2 graded
separately and
each worth 4
points)
Identifies two
locations
incorrectly
Identifies two
locations
correctly.
Identifies two
locations
correctly, names
the transversal
correctly, and
identifies the
parallel lines.
Identifies two
locations
correctly, names
the transversal
correctly, and
identifies the
parallel lines.
Justifies.






Alternate
Interior
(Pair 1 and
Pair 2 graded
separately and
each worth 4
points)
Identifies two
locations
incorrectly
Identifies two
locations
correctly.
Identifies two
locations
correctly, names
the transversal
correctly, and
identifies the
parallel lines.
Identifies two
locations
correctly, names
the transversal
correctly, and
identifies the
parallel lines.
Justifies.


Alternate
Exterior
(Pair 1 and
Pair 2 graded
separately and
each worth 4
points)
Identifies two
locations
incorrectly
Identifies two
locations
correctly.
Identifies two
locations
correctly,
names the
transversal
correctly, and
identifies the
parallel lines.
Identifies two
locations
correctly, names
the transversal
correctly, and
identifies the
parallel lines.
Also justifies why
those locations
were chosen.


Consecutive
Interior
(Pair 1 and
Pair 2 graded
separately and
each worth 4
points)
Identifies two
locations
incorrectly
Identifies two
locations
correctly.
Identifies two
locations
correctly,
names the
transversal
correctly, and
identifies the
parallel lines.
Identifies two
locations
correctly, names
the transversal
correctly, and
identifies the
parallel lines.
Also justifies why
those locations
were chosen.



Total: ________________________