UP:WL17.ASL.L2.3
Knowledge
Students know:
- strategies to present information to an audience or a recording device.
- ASL vocabulary for people, activities, and anecdotes.
- strategies/rules to represent the frequency or duration of the temporal aspect of the verb.
- familiar ASL anecdotes.
- strategies to present anecdotes, including conversations, using body shifts, contrastive structure and spatial referencing.
- strategies/rules to present information in the past or present time frame.
Skills
Students are able to:
- present to an audience or recording device basic information about people and activities using words, phrases, and simple sentences.
- recite to an audience or recording device brief memorized anecdotes using target vocabulary and grammar.
- use the past or present time frame to present information.
- present some verbs showing duration and frequency correctly.
- produce high frequency words and vocabulary words to present information.
- present familiar anecdotes with accurate representation of information through body shifts, contrastive structure, and spatial referencing.
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.
- information is often expressed in the target language with live audiences or via recorded devices.
- the Deaf community has familiar anecdotes which hearing students can also memorize and recite.
- ASL has past and present time frames.
