🎉ASL Level 2, Activity 5-Holidays and Questions (Face-to-Face)

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Description:

For this activity, students will practice communicating, sharing, and describing dates and holidays. Students will also practice asking peers for information about themselves and sharing information about themselves.

Semantic Topics: Months, Holidays, Questions, Numbers, Dates, Go Fish

Grammatical Structures: WH Questions, Vocabulary, Grammer

Products: Questions, grammar, holidays, dates

Practices: Identifying holiday name signs and the date they take place

Perspectives: Does every individual holiday have its own sign?

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 3.1 Students reinforce and further their knowledge of other disciplines through American Sign Language.
  • 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
  • COMM 2.1 Understand, interpret, and analyze what is heard, read, or viewed on a variety of topics.
  • COMP 1.1 Observe formal and informal forms of language.
  • COMP 2.2 Compare and contrast appropriate gestures and oral expressions in the target culture with the learner’s culture.

Can-Do Statements

NCSSFL-ACTFL Can-Do Statements:

  • I can ask and answer simple questions on factual information that is familiar to me
  • I can interact with others in everyday situations
  • I can answer a variety of simple questions about my likes and dislikes and interests

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Warm-up

Materials Needed for Warm-up

The warm-up activity is to practice dates, months, numbers, and holidays.

    1. You can begin by reviewing how to sign the holidays including Christmas, Halloween, birthday, etc.
      • NOW DAY START HOLIDAY SIGN PRACTICE 
    2. You will divide the cards evenly among the lab, and the students can play a game similar to go fish.
      • NOW GAME PLAY GO FISH 
    3.  Student A will sign their card, and ask if anyone has the corresponding card.
      • STUDENT A START SIGNS CARD ASK GROUP CARD HAVE SAME-SAME? 
      • For example, if a student had the Christmas card, they would ask their peers if anyone had the Christmas date. Student B would have December 25th, and would Sign, “DEC 25th ME HAVE” and pass the card over.

Main Activity

Materials Needed for Main Activity

  1. We will be using question cards for this activity! The cards are color coded for different types of WH questions (what, how, why, where)
    • NOW GAME PLAY QUESTION CARDS USE. CARDS DIFFERENT COLOR WITH WH QUESTION
  2. Start by modeling by choosing a card from the pile. Ask the group the question and clarify any signs they may not know. Provide your own answer and then open it up to the group.
  3. All students will answer. Continue the conversation by asking follow-up questions and engaging all of the students.
    • ALL ANSWER 
  4. Students will continue to discuss the questions.
    • CONTINUE TAKE TURNS

Wrap-up

  1. Do you feel more comfortable with the signs for different holidays?
    • HOLIDAY SIGNS COMFORTABLE FEEL?
  2. Was it difficult or easy to engage in conversation with a group about a specific topic?
    • CONVERSATION ABOUT DIFFERENT TOPICS JOIN EASY HARD WHICH? 

Deaf Culture Notes

International Week of the Deaf is celebrated by the World Federation of the Deaf (WFD) and its national associations and their affiliates globally during the last full week of September (Monday through Sunday), culminating with International Day of the Deaf on the last Sunday of the week. September is also Deaf Awareness Month.

End of Lab:

  • Read 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 ask and answer simple questions on factual information that is familiar to me
  • I can interact with others in everyday situations
  • I can answer a variety of simple questions about my likes and dislikes and interests

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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; Amber Hoye; 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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