🦉ASL Level 2, Activity 3-Guess Who (Online)
Description:
For this activity, students will practice describing one another and different pictures of people. They will work on descriptive order and focusing on details when describing a person.
Products: Grammar, describing physical characteristics
Practices: Describing the physical characteristics and clothing of individuals
Perspectives: What aspects are considered when describing another person?
Standards
World-Readiness Standards:
- 1.1 Students engage in conversations and correspondence in American Sign Language to provide and obtain information, express feelings and emotions, and exchange opinions.
- 4.1 Students demonstrate understanding of the nature of language through comparisons of American Sign Language and their own languages.
- 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 Language:
- COMM 1: Interact with others in the target language and gain meaning from interactions in the target language.
- COMM 2.1: Understand, interpret, and analyze what is heard, read, or viewed on a variety of topics.
- CLTR 2.1: Analyze the significance of a product (art, music, literature, etc…) in a target culture.
Can-Do Statements
NCSSFL-ACTFL Can-Do Statements:
- I can describe what others look like
- I can ask questions about others’ physical appearance
- I can communicate basic information about myself and the people I know.
Materials Needed
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Warm-up
Materials Needed for Warm-Up
- Ask students to type ID # for attendance
- “TYPE NAME ID NUMBER”
- Go over the order in which people should be described (consider typing this in the chat):
- Race/Ethnicity
- Gender
- Height
- Hair (type and color)
- Body type
- The most obvious thing about them
- The lab instructor will begin to describe one of the students in the lab, modeling how to properly describe a person (clothing, hair color, etc).
- “ME ONE PERSON DESCRIBE”
- The students will then try to figure out who the instructor is describing.
- “ALL FIND ME DESCRIBE WHO?”
- After they figure it out, the rest of the students will begin to describe other students in the lab.
- “NOW TAKE TURNS”
- Now use the individual outfit cards for further practice (This can be done as a whole group or in breakout rooms)
- Display one at a time and have students take turns describing the person in the picture
- “TAKE TURNS DESCRIBE ONE PERSON FROM PICTURE”
Main Activity
Materials Needed for Main Activity
Describe and Guess! (Guess Who)
- To begin the activity, the lab instructor will privately message one student a letter linked to a picture.
- “ME TYPE LETTER WITH PICTURE SEND ONE STUDENT”
- The student will start describing the person on the card, and the other students will have to pay attention and find the person on their sheet.
- Once that round is finished, another student goes.
- “TAKE TURNS CONTINUE”
Wrap-up
- What are some ways to describe a person?
- “SOME WAYS DESCRIBE PERSON WHAT?”
- Was there anything difficult about this activity?
- “ANYTHING DIFFICULT WITH ACTIVITY?”
- Do you feel like you know how to describe a person?
- “KNOW HOW DESCRIBE PERSON YOU FEEL? YES/NO WHICH?”
- Also, have students self-assess themselves!
- “STUDENTS SELF-ASSESS.”
Deaf Culture Notes
Describing certain aspects of a person’s physical appearance may be looked at as rude in hearing culture but in Deaf culture, it is very common. Describing a person’s physical appearance helps the signer’s audience to completely understand and clarify what is being communicated.
End of Lab:
- Sign or show Can-Do statements once more 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 describe what others look like
- I can ask questions about others’ physical appearance
- I can communicate basic information about myself and the people I know.
