🥳ASL Level 2, Activity 8-Events, Dates, and Celebrations (Online)
Description:
Students will practice creating and describing dates to warm up. For the main activity, students will be sent a card and practice signing the question. They will then start a discussion with the other students about their answers.
Products: Dates and events
Practices: Creating events
Perspectives: What aspects need to be taken into consideration when planning events?
Standards
World-Readiness Standards:
- Standard 1.1 Students use American Sign Language to engage in conversations and provide information, express feelings and emotions, and exchange opinions.
- Standard 1.3 Students present information, concepts, and ideas to an audience of viewers in American Sign Language.
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 3.1 Present information, concepts, and ideas to inform, explain, persuade, and narrate on a variety of topics using appropriate media in the target language.
Can-Do Statements
NCSSFL-ACTFL Can-Do Statements:
- I can ask/understand simple directions
- I can describe plans in depth and with detail
- I can practice translating written English to ASL
Materials Needed
- Google Slides
- Date Planning Cards – Includes one set for up to 8 students.
- Event Cards – Includes 20 cards.
Warm-Up
Materials Needed for Warm-Up
- Google Slides
- Date Planning Cards – Includes one set for up to 8 students.
- Ask students to type ID # for attendance
- Fingerspelling/Name Quiz
- Evelyn
- Alexander
- Emily
- Ethan
- Oliver
- Planning a Date
- Each student will be privately sent one card (place, time, transportation, activity)
- “ME ONE PERSON CARD SEND”
- They will then use those cards to create a date
- “CARD READ DATE MAKE”
- Have students specify what time, how they will get there, what/where they’ll eat, and what they’ll do afterward.
- “TIME? GO-TO HOW? EAT WHAT? DINNER FINISH DO-DO?”
- At the end, have each student go around and describe their date to the rest of the group
- “SHARE DATE WITH GROUP”
Main Activity
Materials Needed for Main Activity
- Google Slides
- Event Cards – Includes 20 cards.
Celebrations/Events/Dates
This activity is to work on translating English sentences to ASL
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- “NOW SENTENCE TRANSLATE ENGLISH ASL
- Students will privately be sent one debate card from the Event Cards link
- “ME ONE PERSON CARD SEND”
- They will sign the card to the rest of the lab group using ASL sentence structure
- “USE ASL SENTENCE SIGN CARD GROUP PARTNER WHATEVER”
- Have each student explain their reasoning so that the activity is more engaging
- “EXPLAIN SENTENCE ORDER THINK WHY”
Wrap-Up
- Was it easy or difficult to plan a date using predetermined details?
- “DATE PLAN WITH DETAILS EASY HARD WHICH?”
- Was it easy or difficult to explain a date to the group?
- “DATE EXPLAIN EASY HARD WHICH?”
- What are you struggling with when translating English to ASL?
- “TRANSLATE ASL ENGLISH EASY HARD WHICH”
Deaf Culture Notes
Deaf people go on dates just like anyone else but it is much more difficult for a Deaf person to organize plans with a hearing person who isn’t fluent in sign. This is why grammar and sentence structure is so important.
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/understand simple directions
- I can describe plans in depth and with detail
- I can practice translating written English to ASL
