American Sign Language I with Ms. Buell

Learning Target: Analyze and choose a children’s story

Success Criteria: I can interpret recorded information (children’s story) in ASL. Standard 1.2

November 18, 2015

Learning Target: Analyze and choose a children’s story

Success Criteria: I can interpret recorded information (children’s story) in ASL. Standard 1.2

Agenda• Attendance – student led• Test Discussion• Shape work 2.8• Thanksgiving Vocab Review – table group• Weather Vocab Review – table group• Implement translated sentences with a partner• Mr. Shiny Head Gesture story• Audience Expectations

Story Time!

• If you are finished filming start making a list of stories you’d like to do. Consult Dr. Google to find stories if you need to

• Start glossing (write in ASL)• You and your group will pick a children’s story to

interpret (Popsicle stick groups)• You can divide up the work how you see fit- making

sure all the parts are even– You may chose characters or each do a minute of the

story, etc.

Examples

• Click Clack Moo https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=19YXU8QQXhA&index=11&list=PLnZ96M7mflm_e_YjxKuzI9HjqnQiHcpxH

• Using Emotion https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u8CpDHJuyF4

– Conveyed in ASL through facial expression, body language, space, eye gaze

Children’s Story1. You may write or choose a published children’s

story2. Your “audience” will be children with limited ASL

skills3. Classifiers

4. Acting5. Describing the scene

Children’s Story Criteria

• You will present to the class but interpret the story for a young children group

• Include facial expression, classifiers, and description of the scene

Test/Quiz/Assessment Discussion

• Answer discussion

Gesture, Mr. Shiny Head

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rJZQdfXkVBY

Thanksgiving Vocab List

1. TURKEY2. GRAVY3. MASHED

POTATOES4. CORN5. STUFFING6. CRANBERRY

SAUCE7. FAMILY

8. DINNER9. THANKSGIVING10. NATIVE

AMERICAN11. FOOTBALL12. FALL

13. BLACK FRIDAY14. BREAD15. FEAST16. THANKSGIVING

BREAK17. WISHBONE18. DELICIOUS19. AMERICA

Weather Signs

1. WEATHER2. RAIN3. SNOW4. COLD5. HOT6. SUN/SUNNY7. WINDY8. STORM9. TEMPERATURE10. PERFECT

11. TORNADO12. HURRICANE13. DEGREE14. THUNDER/LIGHTNING15. BLIZZARD16. TODAY17. FOG/CLOUD18. CHANCE

Practice Sentences

• Pick 8 statements or questions from the list provided (you can alter them as suitable).

• Write them in your INB page 19 in ENGLISH.• SKIP appropriate lines and spaces to translate

your sentences into proper ASL syntax.

Weather Signs1. WEATHER2. RAIN3. SNOW4. COLD5. HOT6. SUN7. WINDY8. STORM9. TEMPERATURE10. PERFECT11. HURRICANE/TORNADO12. DEGREES (32*) (-10*)13. FOG/CLOUD

Shapes 2.8 (SNp76)

• Stephanie will first describe a basic shape.• Next you will find the shape she describes and

make the changes she describes.• Important – use signers perspective! Some shapes

are not signers perspective, others are.

SPORTS VOCAB

1. WIN2. LOSE3. BEAT4. SEASON5. VARSITY6. JUNIOR VARSITY7. STATS/SCORE8. TOURNAMENT

9. AVERAGE10.ASSIST

News Broadcast ASL I –page 20

• What does a New Broadcast consist of?– News >> Thanksgiving– Weather– Sports– Entertainment >> Animal News– Local (Skyview or Vancouver/Portland)

• Time requirements – minimum of 1 minute EACH person!

• Worth 100 points

Audience Expectations• Being an engaged audience member is part of your

grade• Full attention and respect is expected• No yawning, making faces, distractions, rude

gestures, or inattentive body language• Show support by pleasant faces, sitting upright and

focusing on the presenter

Presenter• Remember to breath• Stay relaxed• Remember your peers are learning

from you, sign clearly and slowly• If you make a mistake, simply

lower your hands for a brief moment and start the sentence/fingerspelled word again

• Enjoy yourself – make your presentation fun!

ASL Syntax

1. Subject-Verb-Object (SVO): “MOTHER LOVE FATHER”

2. O-S-V: “FATHER (topic), MOTHER LOVE”3. Topic/Comment: “FATHER, MOTHER LOVE”4. Rhetorical: “MOTHER LOVES WHO? FATHER”