🎉ASL Level 2, Activity 5-Holidays and Questions (Online)
Description:
For this activity, students will practice communicating and 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, Go Fish, Games
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
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
Materials Needed
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Warm-Up
Materials Needed for Warm-Up
- Ask students to type ID # for attendance
- “TYPE NAME ID NUMBER”
- The warm-up activity is to practice dates, months, numbers, and holidays.
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- You can begin by reviewing how to sign some of the holidays including Christmas, Halloween, birthday, etc.
- “NOW DAY START HOLIDAY SIGN PRACTICE”
- The lab instructor should share their screen with the Quizlet.
- Students will take turns matching the holidays and dates that are on the Quizlet until all of the dates are matched.
- “NOW GAME PLAY fs-QUIZLET. PRACTICE HOLIDAY SIGNS PLUS DATE”
- For example, a student could sign “Christmas”, and “December 25th” therefore matching them. The lab instructor would then drag these two cards together and match these on the quizlet.
- “YOU SIGN CHRISTMAS WITH DECEMBER 25TH”
- You can begin by reviewing how to sign some of the holidays including Christmas, Halloween, birthday, etc.
Main Activity
Materials Needed for Main Activity
- We will be using question cards for this activity! See Canva for color-coded questions or the Google Document to see all the questions at once.
- “NOW GAME PLAY CARDS USE”
- Start by modeling by choosing a question. 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.
- All students will answer. Continue the conversation by asking follow-up questions and engaging all of the students.
- “QUESTION ASK ALL ANSWER”
- Students will continue to discuss the questions.
- “QUESTIONS DISCUSS CONTINUE”
- The instructor will sign the questions each time asking everyone to answer and discuss their answers. The discussion will happen in a whole group setting.
Wrap-up
- Do you feel more comfortable with the signs for different holidays?
- “HOLIDAY SIGNS COMFORTABLE FEEL?”
- 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 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
