Students will be comparing and contrasting their childhood background compared to Deaf individual's background. They will then be considering the pros and cons of a Deaf child being taught orally compared to through sign. Students will learn to discuss controversial and difficult topics using ASL.
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Focuses on role shifting with a game of Would You Rather! Emphasize role shifting, listing, and non-manuals when asking questions. We're also making sure students are concentrating on grammar and ASL sentence structure.
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Students will get to know you and each other by practicing prior skills that they have learned. They will then have the opportunity to challenge their knowledge and try to communicate and guess different names and/or situations.
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Students will challenge themselves by testing their knowledge of handshapes. They will test how many signs they know that use the same handshape. The main activity includes agreeing or disagreeing to questions and explaining why you answered that way.
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Students will work in a small group to discuss a variety of topics through the lens of comparing different countries. These discussions will be facilitated through a board game, and ASL vocabulary will be embedded.
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In this activity, students will practice answering questions on a variety of topics. Students will also practice asking questions. They will review name signs, hand shape, and cardinal numbers.
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In this activity, students will practice describing appearances to each other. Students will play a virtual fashion show for their warm-up before moving on to a game of "Guess Who" with a partner.
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Students will practice conversing with each other and answering basic questions about themselves.
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Students will better their fingerspelling skills by making a short story with their lab mates. In the main activity, students will play a game, while learning about physical descriptions and additional information about a person.
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In this activity, students will practice talking about things they have and have not done before. This will help students practice conversation and introduce them to speaking about themselves.
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In this activity, students will practice talking about their families and each other's families. Students will begin by describing famous families and how each member is related to each other. Then they will practice fingerspelling names. Their main activity will be to describe their family tree with a partner and then describe their partner's family tree.
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In this activity, students will practice talking about their schedules. Students discuss their weekly schedule. Then as the main activity, students will plan an event.
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Students will work in pairs/small groups to get to know everyone. They will guess certain aspects of their lives (major, name, hometown, pets) and then present their answers in the target language.
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Students will have multiple opportunities to practice fingerspelling their receptive, fingerspelling comprehension skills. Within this lab students will have exposure to different speeds of fingerspelling and a variety of letter pairs.
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Students will review ASL idioms and use them in context. Students will take pieces of information (setting, time, activity, item) and create a story to share in American Sign Language.
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Students will review the signs for emotions and play a game to better understand how to use the emotions in conversation. Students will have the opportunity to communicate with peers to defend and explain their choices.
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Students will play a game regarding a wide variety of topics to further their conversation skills. Students will describe objects using descriptors to work on fingerspelling
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Students will discuss Deaf Culture through the experiences of a Deaf individual. Students will work to translate scenarios in ASL, while understanding the importance of facial expressions and non-manual signs in conversation.
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Students will be able to practice translating written English to ASL with a focus on directional verbs and classifiers in storytelling.
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Students will have the opportunity to practice discussing the concept of time in American Sign Language and working through time conflicts in conversation.
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