🙋‍♀️ ASL Level 2, Activity 1-Introductions and Review (Face-to-Face)

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Description:

Students will get to know you and each other by practicing prior skills that they have learned. They will then have the opportunity to challenge their knowledge and try to communicate and guess different names and/or situations

Semantic Topics: Introductions, Lab Rules, and Simple Sign Review, greetings, introductions, hello, goodbye, school, grew up, communicate, heads up, game
Grammatical Structures: Listing, Vocabulary, Sentence Structure

Products: Lab rules, introductions

Practices: Identifying lab rules and expectations, identifying oneself

Perspectives: How might knowing some ASL create a more inclusive community than knowing no ASL?

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 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:

  • 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
  • I can communicate basic information about myself
    • I can sign where I grew up
    • I can sign what I like to do
    • I can sign what I am going to school for
  • I can answer questions about myself

Materials Needed

  • Google slides 
  • Kahoot.it
    • User name: wlrcstudents@boisestate.edu
    • Password: Osos161!
  • Jeopardy
    • Username: wlrcstudents
    • Password: Osos161!
  • Heads Up Game
    • Use app or Physical Game

Warm-up:

Materials Needed for Warm-Up

    • Username: wlrcstudents@boisestate.edu
    • Password: Osos161!

Introductions and Kahoot Quiz!

  1. Introduce yourself with your AdobeSpark card and have the other students introduce themselves (with whatever you want: name, major, minor, a fun fact…etc.)
    • “INTRODUCE SELF USING FS- ADOBESPARK CARD FINISHED OTHER STUDENTS INTRODUCE SELF (WITH WHATEVER: NAME, MAJOR, MINOR, FUN FACT)
  2. Students will be taking the Lab Rules Kahoot quiz. The ASL iPad has Kahoot on it, once you’re in there go to Kahoots> Week 1 lab rules game> Play> Classic> give your students the Kahoot game pin, once everyone is in go ahead and start the game.
    • “TAKING LAB RULES KAHOOT QUIZ STUDENTS WILL. KAHOOT FOUND WHERE? ASL IPAD, GO-TO TOPIC (LIST USING FINGERS) 1. “KAHOOT” 2. “WEEK 1 LAB RULES GAME” 3. “PLAY” 4. “CLASSIC” FINISHED. GAME PIN GIVE STUDENTS, START GAME.” 

Main activity:

Materials needed for Main Activity

Jeopardy (no teams)

  1. Have students choose topic and level and then sign the word that they are presented with.
    • “CHOOSE TOPIC AND NUMBER, SIGN WORD PRESENTED STUDENTS WILL.”
  2. This game can be played with teams, however, the goal is to re-introduce students into signing.

If there is time left over after completing all activities above, then allow students to play Heads Up to provide an easy game for them to get back into the groove of signing.

    • “GAME CAN PLAYED WITH TEAMS, HOWEVER GOAL NEED RE-INTRODUCED STUDENTS SIGNING. IF FINISHED, STUDENTS WILL PLAY HEADS UP FOR MORE PRACTICE.” 

WRAP-UP

  1. How are you feeling about your new ASL class or classes in general?
    • “HOW YOU FEEL ABOUT NEW ASL CLASS OR CLASSES GENERALLY?” 
  2. How are you feeling about starting a new semester?
    • “HOW YOU FEEL ABOUT STARTING NEW SEMESTER?”
  3. Did you use sign language at all over the break?
    • “OVER BREAK YOU USE SIGN LANGUAGE YOU?”
  4. Do you feel that you have a good foundation of introductory signs and fingerspelling?
    • “YOU FEEL YOU HAVE GOOD FOUNDATION OF INTRO SIGNS AND FINGERSPELLING YOU?”

Deaf Culture

Deaf people are surrounded by hearing people who have no knowledge of sign language at all so when hearing people know even a little bit of sign, it makes communication easier and creates a feeling of inclusivity.

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
  • I can communicate basic information about myself
    • I can sign where I grew up
    • I can sign what I like to do
    • I can sign what I am going to school for
  • I can answer questions about myself

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Let's Chat! American Sign Language (ASL) Copyright © 2023 by Armilene Cabreros; Audra Dooley; Claire Oberg; Collin Dauenhauer; Delaney Obaldia; Emily Harrison; Emma Wilkinson; Gabi Jones; Izabelle Finner; Jacob Steele; Kate Maryon; Madison Mackey; Megan McAllister; Monica Potts; Rebecca Mulgrew; Robyn Holland; Samantha Showers; Sarra Foerster; Serena Krause; Sophia Orm; Tiana Gratiot; and Tori Fisher is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International License, except where otherwise noted.

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