WL17.ASL.L3.CN
Connections
Connections
WL17.ASL.L3.CN
WL17.ASL.L3.6
Connect with other disciplines while using American Sign Language in a variety of time frames.
Connect with other disciplines while using American Sign Language in a variety of time frames.
Unpacked Content
Knowledge
Students know:
- basic math and science functions and how they relate conceptually to ASL.
- How to research impactful members of the Deaf Community to find out how they have shaped education in both the Deaf and hearing communities.
Skills
Students are able to:
- demonstrate how to complete basic math and science functions both in ASL and printed English.
- Pick a topic related to Deaf history, research the topic, find influential members and present, expanding on who, what and why they are so impactful to our current education system.
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.
WL17.ASL.L3.6a
Expand knowledge of common numbering systems used in science, mathematics and other fields.
Expand knowledge of common numbering systems used in science, mathematics and other fields.
WL17.ASL.L3.6b
Talk about topics from other school subjects using ASL.
Talk about topics from other school subjects using ASL.
WL17.ASL.L3.6c
Describe the importance of influential figures from the Deaf culture, past and present.
Describe the importance of influential figures from the Deaf culture, past and present.
WL17.ASL.L3.7
Acquire information related to diverse perspectives in the Deaf culture.
Acquire information related to diverse perspectives in the Deaf culture.
Unpacked Content
Knowledge
Students know:
- how to create and conduct an interview, either face-to-face, or via phone/internet.
- research a topic and gather ideas from two different perspectives while staying neutral in opinion.
- use the internet to gather information on a given topic.
Skills
Students are able to:
- gather information and express how news of current events is gathered in both the Deaf and hearing communities and explain the differences in obtaining the information in each respected community.
- develop questions and demonstrate the ability to both gather and present information on important events that have happened within the Deaf Community and how they have had either a nation-wide or world-wide impact.
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.
WL17.ASL.L3.7a
Compare how current events are reported in Deaf and hearing cultures.
Compare how current events are reported in Deaf and hearing cultures.
WL17.ASL.L3.7b
Gain understanding of major events in Deaf history, both American and world-wide, that have had profound influence on Deaf culture.
Gain understanding of major events in Deaf history, both American and world-wide, that have had profound influence on Deaf culture.
WL17.ASL.L3.CP
Comparisons
Comparisons
WL17.ASL.L3.8
Compare characteristics of the American Sign Language and their own in a variety of time frames.
Compare characteristics of the American Sign Language and their own in a variety of time frames.
Unpacked Content
Knowledge
Students know:
- some English idioms and their meaning.
- some ASL idioms and their meaning.
- the meaning of formal and informal registers and when they are used.
- how to use past, present, and future tense in English.
- how to use past, present, and future tense in ASL.
- time oriented cultures.
- event oriented cultures.
Skills
Students are able to:
- understand some English idioms.
- understand some ASL idoioms.
- compare idiomatic expressions of ASL and their own.
- compare formal and informal registers of language.
- compare the use of different time frames in ASL and Deaf culture.
Understanding
Students understand that:
- by learning another language one can better understand how the native language works.
- other understandings will depend on theme taught.
WL17.ASL.L3.8a
Compare idiomatic expressions of ASL and their own.
Compare idiomatic expressions of ASL and their own.
WL17.ASL.L3.8b
Compare formal and informal registers of language.
Compare formal and informal registers of language.
WL17.ASL.L3.8c
Compare the use of different time frames in ASL and Deaf culture.
Compare the use of different time frames in ASL and Deaf culture.
WL17.ASL.L3.9
Compare products, practices, and perspectives of Deaf and hearing cultures.
Compare products, practices, and perspectives of Deaf and hearing cultures.
Unpacked Content
Knowledge
Students know:
- some events and activities occuring in the Deaf community.
- some events and activities occuring in the hearing community.
- some cultural practices in the Deaf community.
- some cultural practices in the hearing community.
Skills
Students are able to:
- compare selected activities and events of the Deaf and hearing cultures.
- compare selected cultural practices in the Deaf and hearing cultures.
Understanding
Students understand that:
- custom and tradition vary within the Deaf culture, as well as between Deaf and hearing cultures.
- by studying another culture, one can better understand and appreciate their own.
- there are products specifically designed for Deaf people.
WL17.ASL.L3.9a
Compare selected activities and events of the Deaf and hearing cultures.
Compare selected activities and events of the Deaf and hearing cultures.
WL17.ASL.L3.9b
Compare selected cultural practices in the Deaf and hearing cultures.
Compare selected cultural practices in the Deaf and hearing cultures.
WL17.ASL.L3.CM
Communities
Communities
WL17.ASL.L3.10
Interact using American Sign Language within the classroom and globally in a variety of time frames.
COS Examples
Examples: Exchange information with speakers of American Sign Language in person or virtually.
Identify skills necessary to enter possible career options utilizing ASL fluency.
Simulate interactions that would occur in the Deaf culture.
Interact using American Sign Language within the classroom and globally in a variety of time frames.
COS Examples
Examples: Exchange information with speakers of American Sign Language in person or virtually.
Identify skills necessary to enter possible career options utilizing ASL fluency.
Simulate interactions that would occur in the Deaf culture.
Unpacked Content
Knowledge
Students know:
- some careers options utilizing ASL fluency.
- skills to research careers that utilize ASL fluency.
- rules of some cultural interaction in the Deaf culture.
- ways to simulate interaction that would occur in the Deaf culture.
Skills
Students are able to:
- identify skills necessary to enter possible career options utilizing ASL fluency.
- simulate interactions that would occur in the Deaf culture.
Understanding
Students understand that:
- ASL is used daily by Deaf people as their primary and preferred mode of communication across all parts of their lives.
- ASL can help one better understand the world around them.
- The study of ASL expands one's opportunities.
- ASL is a tool to connect with the world.
- interacting with native users helps increase language and culture skills.
- ASL is a life-long learning tool for communication throughout their personal and professional lives.
WL17.ASL.L3.11
Explore the internet to find authentic websites on current events related to Deaf culture.
COS Examples
Examples: Investigate authentic materials to learn more about topics studied in class.
Explore the internet to find authentic websites on current events.
Plan school events which promote the Deaf culture and awareness of the Deaf culture.
Explore the internet to find authentic websites on current events related to Deaf culture.
COS Examples
Examples: Investigate authentic materials to learn more about topics studied in class.
Explore the internet to find authentic websites on current events.
Plan school events which promote the Deaf culture and awareness of the Deaf culture.
Unpacked Content
Knowledge
Students know:
- criteria to recognize an authentic website.
- strategies to plan a school event.
- specific Deaf culture points and how to promote awareness of those points.
Skills
Students are able to:
- explore the internet to find authentic websites on current events.
- plan school events which promote the Deaf culture and awareness of the Deaf culture.
Understanding
Students understand that:
- Deaf community events are opportunities to use the target language outside of the classroom setting.
WL17.ASL.L4
Level IV
Level IV
WL17.ASL.L4.CO
Communication
Communication
WL17.ASL.L4.CO.A
Interpersonal Mode
Interpersonal Mode
WL17.ASL.L4.1
Communicate and share on familiar and new topics in various time frames and moods.
Communicate and share on familiar and new topics in various time frames and moods.
Unpacked Content
Knowledge
Students know:
- strategies to initiate, maintain, and conclude a conversation by using the appropriate vocabulary and non-manual markers.
- the use of ASL discourse, space and cultural considerations that affect communication.
- markers of different registers.
- markers of different time frames.
Skills
Students are able to:
- communicate in various time frames.
- communicate using different registers.
- communicate.
- communicate about different topics and subjects of interest.
- use their communication skills to gain information about similarities and differences with Deaf peers.
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.
WL17.ASL.L4.1a
Initiate, maintain, and conclude a conversation on various topics.
Initiate, maintain, and conclude a conversation on various topics.
WL17.ASL.L4.1b
Use ASL to communicate about subjects of particular interest to students.
Use ASL to communicate about subjects of particular interest to students.
WL17.ASL.L4.1c
Use ASL to communicate with Deaf peers from the local community/school to identify similarities and differences.
Use ASL to communicate with Deaf peers from the local community/school to identify similarities and differences.
WL17.ASL.L4.CO.B
Interpretive Mode
Interpretive Mode
WL17.ASL.L4.2
Interpret, restate, and react to what is viewed on familiar and new topics.
Interpret, restate, and react to what is viewed on familiar and new topics.
Unpacked Content
Knowledge
Students know:
- target language vocabulary related to daily activities and school related topics.
- strategies to identify gestures, non-manual markers, visual cues, and selected classifiers to restate the communicate message accurately.
- strategies to identify and understand cultural nuances in various products.
- how the expressive products of Deaf culture preserve the language.
Skills
Students are able to:
- view messages in the target language and restate information about daily activities and school related topics.
- view messages in the target language and use the information given by gestures, non-manual markers, visual cues, and classifiers to restate information accurately.
- view expressive products of the Deaf culture and identify and show an understanding of cultural nuances of Deaf culture such as symbolism and signing styles.
- identify how the products of Deaf culture preserve the language.
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.
WL17.ASL.L4.2a
Give details from announcements and messages that are directly related to daily activities and school related topics.
Give details from announcements and messages that are directly related to daily activities and school related topics.
WL17.ASL.L4.2b
Interpret gestures, non-manual markers, selected classifiers, and other visual cues.
Interpret gestures, non-manual markers, selected classifiers, and other visual cues.
WL17.ASL.L4.2c
Demonstrate an understanding of cultural nuances of meaning in expressive products of Deaf culture, such as ASL literature, humor, De’VIA and other visual arts.
Demonstrate an understanding of cultural nuances of meaning in expressive products of Deaf culture, such as ASL literature, humor, De’VIA and other visual arts.
WL17.ASL.L4.CO.C
Presentational Mode
Presentational Mode
WL17.ASL.L4.3
Present information to an audience of viewers on familiar and new topics in various time frames and moods using varied vocabulary and more complex sentence structure.
Present information to an audience of viewers on familiar and new topics in various time frames and moods using varied vocabulary and more complex sentence structure.
Unpacked Content
Knowledge
Students know:
- target language vocabulary related to current events.
- Information about audism.
- how academic and work-related topics affect the Deaf community and Deaf minority groups.
- how signs are modified with inflection.
Skills
Students are able to:
- use appropriate vocabulary to present research on Deaf culture topics.
- use appropriate vocabulary to present information on academic and work-related topics.
- demonstrate signs inflected by directionality and temporal aspect.
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.
WL17.ASL.L4.3a
Research and present reports in ASL on current events and Deaf culture relevant topics.
Research and present reports in ASL on current events and Deaf culture relevant topics.
WL17.ASL.L4.3b
Present information on academic and work-related topics.
Present information on academic and work-related topics.
