WL17.ASL.L1.9

World Languages (2017) Grade(s): 07-12 - American Sign Language

WL17.ASL.L1.9

Identify products, practices and perspectives of the target culture and their own.

Unpacked Content

Knowledge

Students know:
  • social behaviors of the Deaf and hearing cultures.
  • celebrations of the Deaf and hearing cultures.
  • strategies to navigate a website to find the interactive requirements for games, toys, and media.
  • strategies to identify visual and auditory requirements for games, toys, and media.

Skills

Students are able to:
  • identify if social practices, cultural practices, and children's products belong to the Deaf community or the hearing community.
  • identify which social practices are acceptable in the Deaf and hearing communities.
  • identify game, toy, and media features which add a visual component.

Understanding

Students understand that:
  • custom and tradition vary within the Deaf culture, as well as between Deaf and hearing cultures.
  • by studying another culture, one can better understand and appreciate their own.
  • other understanding will depend on theme being taught.
  • there are products specifically designed for Deaf people.
  • Deaf culture is different from hearing culture.
  • identifying the products, practices, and perspectives of a culture can help one understand the people.
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