💥ASL Level 2, Activity 7-Debate (Face-to-Face)

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Description:

Students will challenge themselves by testing their knowledge of handshapes.  They will test how many signs they know that use the same handshape. The main activity includes agreeing or disagreeing with questions and explaining why you answered that way.

Semantic Topics: Debate, Agree, Disagree, Classifiers, Questions, Opinion, Thoughts, Group Discussion

Grammatical Structures: 5 Parameters of sign, Handshape, Classifiers, Fingerspelling

Products: Classifiers, fingerspelling, 5 parameters of sign, debate

Practices: Identifying and using the 5 parameters of sign, and explaining the reasoning for agreements and disagreements

Perspectives: How does changing 1 of the 5 parameters of a sign impact the message of a 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 1.2 Students comprehend and interpret live and recorded American Sign Language on a variety of topics
  • Standard 3.2 Students acquire information and recognize the distinctive viewpoints that are only available through American Sign Language and Deaf culture.

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 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 debate in a group setting
  • I can share my opinions with others
  • I can justify my own thoughts
  • I can contribute to a group discussion

Materials Needed

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Warm-up

Materials Needed for Warm-up

  1. Part one: Name quiz
  2. Students will be asked to write 5 various names on the whiteboard to practice fingerspelling.
    • “NOW DAY START NAME TEST. ME FINGERSPELL 5 NAMES YOU WRITE WHITE BOARD”
    • Charlotte
    • Amelia
    • Harper
    • Elijah
    • Mason
  3. Once finished, ask students to reflect and see what was difficult and why
    • “HARD WHICH EASY WHICH? WHY?”
  4. Part two: Handshape
  5. Assign each student a hand shape (ex: HS-5, HS-1, HS-Closed O, HS-B, HS-S, HS-A)
    • “NOW PRACTICE DIFFERENT HANDSHAPES FIND SIGNS WITH YOUR HANDSHAPE” 
  6. On whiteboards, have the students write down as many signs as they can that use that hand shape in 1.5 minutes.
    • “TIME 90 SECONDS EVERYONE DIFFERENT HANDSHAPE WRITE LIST SIGNS WITH YOUR HANDSHAPE”
  7. Once the time is up, have each student sign the words they came up with. If the other students have any signs to add to the list, feel free to add them.
    • “TIME FINISH SHARE SIGNS GROUP ADD OTHER SIGNS WITH THAT HANDSHAPE”

Main Activity

Materials Needed for Main Activity

Debates

  1. Go over any new signs (debate, cochlear implant, etc)
  2. Write them on the board and sign them
  3. Students will take turns drawing a debate card from the deck
    • “ONE PERSON PICK CARD”
  4. They will sign the card to the rest of the lab group, then everyone will hold up their sign that either says “agree” or “disagree”
    • “SIGN CARD FINISH EVERYONE ANSWER AGREE DISAGREE WHICH”
  5. Have each student explain their reasoning so that the activity is more engaging
    • “AGREE DISAGREE WHY?”
  6. Continue with each student.

Wrap-up

  1. Which topics did we struggle with?
    • “TOPIC HARD WHICH?”
  2. Which topics did we like?
    • “TOPIC LIKE WHICH?”

Deaf Culture Notes

Understanding the 5 parameters of sign is fundamental to sign language and communicating among the Deaf community. This is because each parameter is equally important and leaving one out or executing one incorrectly can completely change the meaning of a sign or even a sentence.

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 debate in a group setting
  • I can share my opinions with others
  • I can justify my own thoughts
  • I can contribute to a group discussion

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