In this activity, students will get to learn some state signs. State signs are different depending on location, so we're going over a few variations of all the states. In the warm-up we're going over everyday/common uses of a variety of classifiers.
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In this activity students will get the opportunity to learn some Valentine's Day vocabulary and will be able to share and talk about a given prompt as well as personal stories. Students are given twitter excerpts about bad first dates, this allows them to explain a sequence of events by using different signs and classifiers.
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In this activity, students get the chance to explore the possibility of deaf people needing service animals. The activity encourages conversation about important topics surrounding deaf individuals. Students will have the opportunity to converse unfamiliar topics and discuss potentially controversial topics.
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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 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 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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In this activity students will begin by reviewing different signs they learned last semester. Then they will practice asking and answering questions about themselves. The goal is for students to get to know each other better!
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In this activity, students will practice talking about Deaf culture. They will discuss how Deaf individuals order food. Students will also discuss foods that they perceive to be healthy or not healthy.
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Students will discuss and answer questions relating to different professions, as well as what they might do during an interview.
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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 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 reading and writing numbers from 1-10 with simple math problems.Can-Do Statements:I can read\write numbers from 1 to 10 in Arabic.I can use simple math problems like +, -, and = in Arabic.I can exchange my number with others in Arabic.
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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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This activity allows students to practice lip reading. Students will get a glimpse into deaf culture and how important lip reading is for Deaf individuals.
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Students will practice their learned vocabulary. Students will also discuss facts and ideas about themselves.
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Students will introduce themselves to each other. They will also fill out a Mad-Libs sheet based on the information they know about a partner. Students will learn to describe each other and each other's personality.
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This activity is great for practicing ASL sentence structure Time-Topic-Comment. This activity provides students with new signs for idioms, and encourages them to be creative when coming up with their stories. Students will learn to create stories and practice presenting stories using idioms.
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In this activity, students will have the opportunity to practice using money and math skills to bid on items in an "auction". Students will also experience what actions are like for Deaf individuals.
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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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