Unpacked Content
Knowledge
Students know:
- appropriate ways to greet and leave a conversation.
- vocabulary to express self in conversations on very familiar topics using a variety of words, phrases, simple sentences, and questions that have been highly practiced and memorized.
- strategies to understand words, phrases, and formulaic language viewed in conversation.
- appropriate behaviors to interact with native speakers in person or virtually in the school, community, or globally in ASL.
Skills
Students are able to:
- communicate expressively and receptively with native speakers within the school, community and globally in person or virtually.
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.
- American Sign Language is a life-long learning tool for communication throughout their personal and professional lives.
