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.
