Unpacked Content
Knowledge
Students know:
- culturally appropriate and polite ways to introduce themselves, greet and leave people.
- strategies to exchange basic personal information about self and others.
- vocabulary to ask for and provide information using appropriate ASL skills.
- basic personal information about their everyday lives using words phrases, and simple sentences in the present time frame.
Skills
Students are able to:
- introduce self, greet and leave people in a polite way using the target language appropriately.
- exchange basic personal information about self and others using the target language expressively and receptively.
- ask for and provide personal information using the appropriate linguistic features of the target language.
- exchange basic information about their everyday lives using words, phrases, and simple sentences in the target 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.
