📝 Level 1, Lab 10-Days of the Week/Schedules (Face-to-Face)
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Description:
Students will describe their weekly schedules in detail, including times, locations, and duration. This activity helps students with their planning abilities. Students will learn to describe time, location, and activities. They will also give preferences for hobbies and activities.
Semantic Topics: Weekly Schedules, Days of the Week, Plan an Event, Events
Grammatical Structures: Vocabulary, Sentence Structure
Products: Schedules, dates, and plans
Practices: Creating events for varying schedules
Perspectives: Why clear communication and use of signing space are important to crafting plans
NCSSFL-ACTFL World-Readiness Standards
- Standard 1.1: Students engage in conversations, provide and obtain information, express feelings and emotions, and exchange opinions.
- Standard 1.2: Students comprehend and interpret live and recorded American Sign Language on a variety of topics.
- Standard 1.3: Students present information, concepts, and ideas in American Sign Language to an audience of viewers on a variety of topics.
Idaho Content Standards for World Languages:
- CLTR 1.3 – Function appropriately in diverse contexts within the target culture.
- COMM 1.1 – Interact and negotiate meaning (spoken, signed, written conversation) to share information, reactions, feelings, and opinion.
- COMM 2.1 – Understand, interpret, and analyze what is heard, read, or viewed on a variety of topics.
- COMM 3.2 – Adapt presentation to various audiences of listeners, readers, or viewers.
NCSSFL-ACTFL Can-Do Statements:
- I can sign the days of the week, as well as week and weekend.
- I can sign my weekly schedule to someone else.
- I can create an event and use my knowledge of the days of the week and time to explain and plan it
- Show the students what they will be doing for the day
- Review the signs for the days of the week.
- “NOW-DAY START PRACTICE DAYS OF WEEK”
- Also, review the other signs that are on the slideshow.
- “NOW-DAY LIST 2, 1 DISCUSS WEEK SCHEDULE 2 PLAN EVENT.”
- For the first part of lab, give students a whiteboard and marker. Also, give each student a weekly question sheet.
- “ALL LIST 3-WHITE BOARD, PEN, QUESTION SHEET HAVE”
- Have students pair up. One person will sign their weekly schedule, while the other student will write it down. After the first person has finished signing their schedule, their partner will do the same.
- “TAKE TURNS PARTNER A SIGN WEEK SCHEDULE PARTNER B WATCH WRITE. FINISH SWITCH.”
- After the first person has responded to the questions, the second person will write them down. Once they’re finished, they’ll switch roles and do it again.
- “PARTNER A QUESTIONS ANSWER PARTNER B WATCH WRITE FINISH SWITCH.”
- After everyone has had a chance to practice their weekly schedules, give each student one of the event cards.
- “FINISH ALL EVENT CARD HAVE”
- Each student will write down their event information on their whiteboard and fill in any additional information needed.
- “ALL EVENT WRITE ALL INFORMATION WRITE”
- Once everyone has finished creating and writing down their event, students will take turns presenting and see who can attend their event.
- “TAKE TURNS EVENT SHARE. EVENT COME WHO?”
- Do you feel comfortable describing your daily routine?
- “YOU WEEK ROUTINE DESCRIBE COMFORTABLE FEEL?”
- Do you feel comfortable with the days of the week?
- “YOU DAY WEEK SIGN COMFORTABLE FEEL?”
- Was it easy or difficult planning an event?
- “EVENT PLAN EASY HARD WHICH?”
ASL grammar is extremely important when it comes to time. Sign language is pretty straightforward when it comes to the simplicity of words but it can get confusing if the grammar is messed up. Fluent signers can still have a very complex conversation, they may just get to the point faster than hearing people do.
End of Lab:
- Read Can-Do statements once more and have students evaluate their confidence.
- (Use thumbs up/thumbs down or download our student cards.)
- Encourage students to be honest in their self-evaluation.
- Pay attention, and try to use feedback for future labs!
NCSSFL-ACTFL Can-Do Statements:
- I can sign the days of the week, as well as week and weekend.
- I can sign my weekly schedule to someone else.
- I can create an event and use my knowledge of the days of the week and time to explain and plan it
