WL17.ASL.L3.3

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

Students know:

strategies to use technology to research different topics to find information.
how to use recorded vlogs to express different ideas and concepts that are close to the Deaf Community.
the importance of ABC/123 stories in the Deaf Community.
how different types of stories/poetry are used to express different emotions via ASL.

Students are able to:

find, explain and demonstrate different classifiers and how they are used within ASL.
create a vlog that expresses a short message about topics that students are familiar with.
create and express different ASL poems and ABC/123 stories.
explain why these different mediums of expression are important to the Deaf Community.

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.
different classifiers are used in ways that sometimes do not have a direct, one-word English equivalency.
vlogs are used to communicate different thoughts and ideas of great variety.
ASL poetry, ABC/123 stories, and other ASL stories hold a great value in the history of ASL and in Deaf Culture.