Unpacked Content
Knowledge
Students know:
- strategies to use technology to research different topics to find information.
- how to use recorded vlogs to express different ideas and concepts that are close to the Deaf Community.
- the importance of ABC/123 stories in the Deaf Community.
- how different types of stories/poetry are used to express different emotions via ASL.
Skills
Students are able to:
- find, explain and demonstrate different classifiers and how they are used within ASL.
- create a vlog that expresses a short message about topics that students are familiar with.
- create and express different ASL poems and ABC/123 stories.
- explain why these different mediums of expression are important to the Deaf Community.
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.
- different classifiers are used in ways that sometimes do not have a direct, one-word English equivalency.
- vlogs are used to communicate different thoughts and ideas of great variety.
- ASL poetry, ABC/123 stories, and other ASL stories hold a great value in the history of ASL and in Deaf Culture.
