Unpacked Content
Knowledge
Students know:
- ASL is a visual language.
- English is a written and spoken language.
- greetings and farewells used in Deaf and hearing cultures.
- strategies to identify topic/comment word order in ASL.
- strategies to identify yes/no questions in ASL.
- strategies to use head shake, facial expressions and signs to negate a statement.
- strategies to understand and demonstrate person-classifiers, transportation classifiers in the singular and plural states in ASL.
Skills
Students are able to:
- observe the language characteristics of the Deaf and hearing cultures.
- give examples of formal and informal forms of language, common ASL word order, and noun-related classifiers in ASL.
Understanding
Students understand that:
- by learning another language one can better understand how the native language works.
- other understandings will depend on theme taught.
- ASL and English are produced in a different modality.
- ASL is not a signed version of English.
- the language characteristics of ASL differ from English.
- ASL word order differs from English word order.
