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World Languages (2017) Grade(s): 07-12 - American Sign Language

WL17.ASL.L1.11

Identify opportunities to use American Sign Language beyond the classroom environment.

Examples: Plan real or imaginary travel to a Deaf community event.

Explore the internet to find sites of personal interest where ASL is utilized.

Attend or view Deaf friendly events in person or virtually.

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Knowledge

Students know:
  • websites containing Deaf events.
  • strategies to navigate the internet to locate ASL sites of interest.

Skills

Students are able to:
  • locate and identify Deaf events in the community.
  • plan and attend a real Deaf community event.
  • plan and role play an imaginary trip to a Deaf community event.
  • plan and view virtually a Deaf community event.
  • explore the internet and find sites where ASL is utilized.

Understanding

Students understand that:
  • Deaf community events are opportunities to use the target language outside of the classroom setting.
World Languages (2017) Grade(s): 07-12 - American Sign Language

WL17.ASL.L2.1

Communicate and share using American Sign Language on familiar topics with a variety of words, phrases, and simple sentences in the past time frame.

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Knowledge

Students know:
  • strategies to expressively ask for and receptively understand directions.
  • strategies to communicate using phrases and simple topic/comment sentences.
  • strategies for asking and answering yes/no and 'wh' questions.
  • strategies to communicate about daily activities and personal preferences using phrases, simple sentences, and/or listing.
  • strategies to describe an event in the past time frame.

Skills

Students are able to:
  • use ASL to gain information to meet basic survival needs, such as locating a bathroom or a place to eat.
  • expressively and receptively communicate on familiar topics using a variety of phrases and simple sentences.
  • ask and answer questions on factual information using the appropriate ASL sentence type with the correct non-manual markers.
  • communicate about their daily activities and personal preferences.
  • describe an event in the past time frame with the correct ASL word order.

Understanding

Students understand that:
  • effective communication requires knowing how when and why to say what to whom.
  • the purpose of language study is to communicate so one can understand others and be understood.
  • ASL can be used to engage in conversations to share information.
  • interpersonal communication requires the knowledge of linguistic elements.

Aligned Learning Resources

ASL Using Classifiers to Describe What Happened
Create a Fun, Fictional Family
World Languages (2017) Grade(s): 07-12 - American Sign Language

WL17.ASL.L2.2

Comprehend and interpret live or recorded American Sign Language on familiar topics using the past tense.

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Knowledge

Students know:
  • strategies to comprehend and restate/retell information.
  • strategies to locate key information.
  • strategies to receptively understand words, phrases, and simple sentences related to daily activities strategies to comprehend information presented in the past tense.
  • strategies to comprehend and understand time, including numerical incorporation, for time in the past tense.

Skills

Students are able to:
  • receptively comprehend and expressively restate information from viewed ASL presentations or Vlogs using the past tense.
  • receptively comprehend, locate and state key information from live or recorded announcements and messages connected to daily activities using the past tense.
  • receptively comprehend time, including numerical incorporation, in the past tense.

Understanding

Students understand that:
  • effective communication requires knowing how when and why to say what to whom.
  • the purpose of language study is to communicate so one can understand others and be understood.
  • ASL can be used to engage in conversations to share information.
  • interpersonal communication requires the knowledge of linguistic elements.
World Languages (2017) Grade(s): 07-12 - American Sign Language

WL17.ASL.L2.3

Present information on familiar topics with a variety of words, phrases, and simple sentences in American Sign Language using past or present time frame.

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Knowledge

Students know:
  • strategies to present information to an audience or a recording device.
  • ASL vocabulary for people, activities, and anecdotes.
  • strategies/rules to represent the frequency or duration of the temporal aspect of the verb.
  • familiar ASL anecdotes.
  • strategies to present anecdotes, including conversations, using body shifts, contrastive structure and spatial referencing.
  • strategies/rules to present information in the past or present time frame.

Skills

Students are able to:
  • present to an audience or recording device basic information about people and activities using words, phrases, and simple sentences.
  • recite to an audience or recording device brief memorized anecdotes using target vocabulary and grammar.
  • use the past or present time frame to present information.
  • present some verbs showing duration and frequency correctly.
  • produce high frequency words and vocabulary words to present information.
  • present familiar anecdotes with accurate representation of information through body shifts, contrastive structure, and spatial referencing.

Understanding

Students understand that:
  • effective communication requires knowing how when and why to say what to whom.
  • the purpose of language study is to communicate so one can understand others and be understood.
  • ASL can be used to engage in conversations to share information.
  • interpersonal communication requires the knowledge of linguistic elements.
  • information is often expressed in the target language with live audiences or via recorded devices.
  • the Deaf community has familiar anecdotes which hearing students can also memorize and recite.
  • ASL has past and present time frames.

Aligned Learning Resources

ASL Using Classifiers to Describe What Happened
World Languages (2017) Grade(s): 07-12 - American Sign Language

WL17.ASL.L2.4

Identify perspectives through practices of the Deaf culture.

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Knowledge

Students know:
  • strategies to use various and appropriate attention-getting techniques.
  • strategies to use various and appropriate eye gaze to show meaning in ASL.
  • strategies to negotiate a signing environment by entering, going between, and moving to be seen better, etc.
  • strategies to demonstrate different communicate strategies used with the hearing community.
  • celebrations in the Deaf community and can describe the Deaf community perspectives/viewpoints related to these.

Skills

Students are able to:
  • use appropriate attention-getting techniques for a single individual or a third person's attention.
  • use eye gaze to show meaning and maintain communication appropriately.
  • negotiate a signing environment with various numbers of ASL signers.
  • describe and list strategies to communicate with the hearing community.
  • identify celebrations and describe how these affect the perspectives of the Deaf community.

Understanding

Students understand that:
  • the Deaf community is also part of the American community.
  • Therefore, they function in both the American culture and the Deaf culture.
  • the basis of Deaf culture lies in its visual orientation.
  • An ability to communicate in another language fosters a better understanding of my own language and culture.
  • recognizing the different practices in the Deaf community can lead to a better understanding of their viewpoints.
World Languages (2017) Grade(s): 07-12 - American Sign Language

WL17.ASL.L2.5

Identify perspectives through products of the Deaf culture.

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Knowledge

Students know:
  • accessibility products used by the Deaf, such as video phones and visual alerts.
  • selected arts, crafts, or graphic representations of the Deaf culture.
  • strategies to identify themes from artwork, crafts, or graphic representations.
  • the major themes of Deaf art as they are related to Deaf culture.

Skills

Students are able to:
  • identify some common tangible products related to home and community life of Deaf individuals.
  • describe and and list selected arts, crafts, or graphic representations of the Deaf culture.
  • recognize/identify fundamental themes of Deaf culture in the arts, crafts, and graphic representations.
  • identify how the perspectives of the Deaf culture is reflected by the tangible products.

Understanding

Students understand that:
  • the Deaf community creates products that reflect their culture.
  • an ability to communicate in another language fosters a better understanding of my own language and culture.
  • custom and tradition vary within a culture, as well as between cultures.
  • observing American Deaf products is a way to learn about Deaf cultural views and perspectives.
World Languages (2017) Grade(s): 07-12 - American Sign Language

WL17.ASL.L2.6

Use American Sign Language to connect with other disciplines.

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Knowledge

Students know:
  • vocabulary used to discuss subject-specific content such as math, science, geography, and history .
  • vocabulary used to identify family members and family relationships.
  • vocabulary used to identify community information.

Skills

Students are able to:
  • discuss topics from other school subjects using appropriate ASL vocabulary and grammar.
  • identify family members by fingerspelling the names or showing the personal name signs, and describing the relationships between family members.
  • identify community locations, such as schools, and libraries using the appropriate vocabulary.
  • identify community emergency services and personnel using the appropriate vocabulary.
  • identify community transportation types used in the local area with the appropriate vocabulary and classifiers.

Understanding

Students understand that:
  • Proficiency in ASL is a vehicle to gaining knowledge that can only be acquired through that language and its culture.
  • ASL can be used to learn all school subjects.
  • By engaging in one-to-one conversation about other school subject material using ASL, students reinforce their knowledge of those subjects.

Aligned Learning Resources

Create a Fun, Fictional Family
World Languages (2017) Grade(s): 07-12 - American Sign Language

WL17.ASL.L2.7

Describe information related to distinct perspectives that are only in ASL and Deaf culture.

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Knowledge

Students know:
  • strategies to comprehend meaning through recognition of key words, phrases, and formulaic language that are highly contextualized.
  • strategies to identify and describe positive images of being Deaf.
  • strategies to describe Deaf-Gain.
  • strategies to identify the viewpoint of the Deaf community shown through cultural and historical videos in the target language.

Skills

Students are able to:
  • comprehend short stories, folktales, jokes, and stories in the target language.
  • comprehend and describe the positive image of being Deaf as seen in Deaf cultural media.
  • describe Deaf-Gain.
  • comprehend and identify the Deaf viewpoint shown in cultural and historical folktales and stories.
  • describe historical figures and show how they relate to the current viewpoints in Deaf culture.

Understanding

Students understand that:
  • cultural issues affect the Deaf community's perspective.
  • to identify diverse perspectives of the Deaf community, it is only available through studying ASL.
  • viewing literature in ASL increases understanding of culture, historical figures, and positive images of the Deaf.

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