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 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 review holiday signs. Students will have a discussion on Deaf culture and how their thoughts on ASL/Deaf Culture have changed through the learning and experiences.
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Students will hold a conversation reflecting on their Thanksgiving Break in the target language. Students will focus on both active and receptive fingerspelling.
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For this activity, students will practice their circumlocution skills concerning their recent vocabulary. They will be given a word to explain without using the exact word, or similar words.
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This warm-up should instigate meaningful conversation about accommodations made for deaf people in the workplace. The main activity gives students the opportunity to host an interview and ask some significant and specific questions about another person.
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In this activity, students will practice talking about objects usually found in a backpack, they will be able to discuss and ask questions about what is in their or in someone's backpack, as well as discuss the place/location for an object.Can-Do Statements:I can talk about the items in my backpack, or in someone's backpack.I can ask about a specific thing or object.I can discuss the place of an object using the possessive pronoun.
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During the warm-up students will review how to sign shapes and the cardinal numbers from the slideshow. For the main activity, students will pair up and each grab a picture card without showing it to their partner. One student will describe the picture card being specific to location, color, etc, while the other draws what their partner just described to them. The partners will then switch roles.
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This lab introduces students to family trees and helps them describe their own. It also allows students to practice their receptive skills and interpret others' signs.
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This lab will introduce students to the days of the week and will allow them to sign their schedule to someone else. Students will also get to plan an event and ask if their peers can attend.
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This lab allows students to review what they've learned so far. Students will play a variety of games to better their sign skills. The games involve vocabulary, fingerspelling and physical descriptions.
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This lab will practice different skills learned throughout the semester through the use of a board game. The game is focused on Deaf culture, describing physical appearance, and the five parameters of signs. The students will play the game together and work on their communication skills throughout by answering and engaging with the game cards.
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This activity allows students to practice asking each other questions related to who someone is. Students will practice answering questions about physical characteristics.
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This lab will introduce ASL students to name signs and how to use WHQ questions. Students will learn from a video and from conversing with others. Students will also learn how to ask a variety of different questions.
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This activity is a review focusing on fingerspelling and vocabulary. There are predetermined categories provided, and both activities are done in teams/small groups. However, they can be adapted to individual work/whole class group.
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This activity aims to help students with sign related to days of the week. It will also help students in answering questions dealing with their weekly routines. In the warm up, students get to practice receptive fingerspelling skills.
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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 their schedules. Students discuss their weekly schedule. Then as the main activity, students will plan an event.
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Students will practice asking and answering questions. Students will also practice using facial expressions. Students will learn about the importance of facial expressions in Deaf culture.
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