🥳ASL Level 2, Activity 8-Celebrations, Events, Dates (Face-to-Face)
Description:
Students will practice creating and describing dates to warm up. For the main activity, students will grab a card and practice signing the question. They will then start a discussion with the other students about their answers.
Semantic Topics: Dates, Planning, Organizing, Cards, Questions, Events
Grammatical Structures: Grammer, Sentence Structure, Vocabulary, Question Facial Expression
Products: Dates and events
Practices: Creating events
Perspectives: What aspects need to be taken into consideration when planning events?
Standards
NCSSFL-ACTFL 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
Warm-up
Materials Needed for Warm-Up
Planning a Date
- Each student will draw one card from each pile (place, time, transportation, activity)
- “EVERYONE ONE CARD DRAW PLEASE”
- 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
- This activity is to work on translating English sentences to ASL
- Show one sentence slide at a time.
- Depending on lab size, students can work in partners or small groups
- “NOW SENTENCE TRANSLATE ENGLISH ASL 1 PARTNER 2 SMALL GROUP YOU PICK”
- Students will then sign the English sentence into ASL grammar.
- “USE ASL SENTENCE SIGN 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
