Unpacked Content
Knowledge
Students know:
- appropriate gestures to use from the Deaf community.
- appropriate etiquette to use from the Deaf community.
- patterns of behavior typical of the Deaf culture.
- strategies to help draw conclusions about Deaf culture based on authentic material.
Skills
Students are able to:
- use some appropriate gestures from the Deaf community.
- use some appropriate etiquette from the Deaf community.
- observe some patterns of behavior typical of the Deaf culture.
- draw some conclusions about Deaf culture based on authentic material.
Understanding
Students understand that:
- an ability to communicate in ASL fosters a better.
- understanding of the Deaf culture and his/her own language and culture.
- custom and tradition vary within Deaf cultures.
- Deaf culture differs from hearing culture in many ways.
- Deaf culture is similar to hearing culture in many ways.
- Deaf culture produces tangible products.
- Deaf and hearing cultures share some gestures.
