Unpacked Content
Knowledge
Students know:
- strategies to accurately identify different literary elements within an informative text.
- strategies to identify different non-manual markers, facial expressions and other visual cues and understand how they affect the grammatical-structure of the word, sentence, or phrase.
Skills
Students are able to:
- accurately express and interpret information based on literary elements from an informational text.
- accurately identify, and interpret different facial expressions, gestures, non-manual markers and other visual cues used within a conversation.
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.
- just as in English, American Sign Language has specific ways to identify and express important literary information.
- ASL, just as spoken and printed English, has specific grammatical rules that affect meaning, express emotion, and convey important information.
