🤔ASL Level 1, Activity 03- Guess Who/Descriptions of Individuals (Online)
Description:
During the warm-up, students will pair up and fill out the checklist about their partner then introduce them to the group. The main activity will be “Guess Who” and students will take turns asking questions to figure out who their partner picked on the picture card sheets. An example of these questions could be, “Is it a man or a woman?”
Products: Signing space, question, grammar
Practices: Describing appearances, asking questions
Perspectives: How to make use of signing space in a conversation. Describing appearances through a series of questions.
Standards
NCSSFL-ACTFL World-Readiness Standards:
- Standard 1.1- Students engage in conversations and correspondence in American Sign Language to 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 4.1 Students demonstrate understanding of the nature of language through comparisons of American Sign Language and their own languages.
Idaho Content Standards for World Languages:
- COMM 1.1- Interact and negotiate meaning (spoken, signed, written conversation) to share information, reactions, feelings, and opinions
- COMP 1.1- Observe formal and informal forms of language.
- COMM 2.1- Understand, interpret, and analyze what is heard, read, or viewed on a variety of topics.
Can-Do Statements
NCSSFL-ACTFL Can-Do Statements:
- I can introduce myself and others
- I can describe what a person is wearing and what they look like
- I can help another person correctly guess a vocab word
- I can fingerspell different words
Materials Needed
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Warm-up
Materials Needed for Warm-Up
- Ask students to type ID # for attendance
- “NAME ID NUMBER TYPE”
- Review
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YELLOW
- SHIRT
- FLOWERS
- RED
- PANTS
- POLKA DOTS
- BLUE
- GLASSES
- STRIPES
- GREEN
- DRESS
- PLAID
- BLACK
- SHOES
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Main Activity
Materials Needed for Main Activity
- Guess Who
- “NOW GAME NAME GUESS WHO PLAY”
- Show the virtual grid of people on the Google Slides, one person will secretly pick one of the people. The group will take turns questioning the person who picked to find who they picked, based on questions of what they’re wearing, hairstyles, gender, etc.
- “ONE PERSON PICK GROUP QUESTIONS ASK. FIND PERSON PICK WHO”
- The group will start asking yes/no questions and will have to narrow it down until they figure out who was chosen on the paper. For example, “Is it a man or a woman?”
- “YES NO QUESTIONS ASK. MAN WOMEN WHICH? CONTINUE”
- Once they receive a response, they will either mark off all the males/females, or whoever doesn’t qualify for their question. Once one round is finished, the next person will pick and the group asks them yes or no questions.
- “CROSS OFF PEOPLE FIT ANSWER NOT. FINISH PERSON FIND”
- “NEW PERSON PICK GAME CONTINUE”
Wrap-up
- Talk about the famous Deaf individuals on the Guess Who sheets.
- “PAST YOU FAMOUS DEAF PEOPLE SEE?”
- Talk about the obstacles they overcame in order to become successful people.
- “DEAF PEOPLE FAMOUS SUCCESS BECOME HARD WHY?”
Deaf Culture
One reason there are so few Deaf famous people is because the hearing community views Deaf people as disabled and knowledge of sign language is so limited that Deaf people who do not communicate orally have a much lower chance to be given opportunities and when a Deaf person does become famous they are looked at as “that famous Deaf person” rather than being appreciated for their accomplishments alone.
Lab Assistant Notes: Remember to record attendance before ending the lab.
End of Lab:
- Read can-do statements and have students evaluate their confidence
- (Use thumbs up/ thumbs down or have them rate 1-5 on how they feel after the activity)
- Encourage students to be honest in their self-evaluation
- Pay attention, and try to use feedback for future labs!
Can-Do Statements
NCSSFL-ACTFL Can-Do Statements:
- I can introduce myself and others
- I can describe what a person is wearing and what they look like
- I can help another person correctly guess a vocab word
- I can fingerspell different words
