💸ASL Level 3, Activity 10-Auction (Face-to-Face)
Description:
Students will learn about how people sign differently from one another. They will also practice money signs by reviewing money related vocabulary and selling and buying auction items from each other with fake money given by the lab instructor.
Semantic Topics: Auction, Conversation, Numbers, Persuasion
Grammatical Structures: Fingerspelling, Vocabulary
Products: Money-related signs
Practices: Practicing numbers and buying/selling items
Perspectives: Signs related to money frequently come up in day-to-day conversation
Standards
AATSP Standards for Learning American Sign Language:
- “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 1.3 – Students present information, concepts, and ideas in American Sign Language to an audience of viewers on a variety of topics”
- Standard 2.1 Students demonstrate an understanding of the relationship between the practices and perspectives of American Deaf culture
Idaho Content Standards for World Languages:
- “COMM 1: Interact with others in the target language and gain meaning from interactions in the target language”
- “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”
- CLTR 1.3: Function appropriately in diverse contexts within the target culture.
Can-Do Statements
NCSSFL-ACTFL Can-Do Statements:
- I can ask and understand how much something costs
- I can describe objects in a persuasive way
- I can talk about familiar items that I encounter in everyday life
Materials Needed
- Google Slides
- Funny Money
- Auction Cards
- Auction Paddles
- Fingerspelling Name Quiz
- Names – Intermediate ASL
- White Boards and Markers
Warm-up
Materials Needed for Warm Up
- Fingerspelling Name Quiz
- Names – Intermediate ASL
- White Boards and Markers
- Start with 5-minute conversations
- “START TIME 5 MINUTE CONVERSATION DISCUSS WHATEVER”
- Today we are going to watch two different videos that have two different people signing names.
- “NOW DAY VIDEO WATCH 2. 2 DIFFERENT PEOPLE BOTH SIGN NAMES”
- Start the video and using a whiteboard and marker students will write down what they see being fingerspelled
- “VIDEO WATCH YOU WRITE FINGERSPELL NAMES”
- After each of the videos, discuss any differences they saw
- “VIDEO FINISH SEE WHAT?”
- Start a discussion on how different people can sign differently and how we become comfortable and familiar with how individuals sign.
- “PEOPLE SIGN DIFFERENT HOW?”
Main Activity
Materials Needed for Main Activity
- Vocabulary Review
- MONEY
- BUY
- PAY YOU/PAY ME
- LOAN
- APPLY (verb for applying programs, jobs, loans, etc. ), APPLICATION, APPLY (verb for apply ideas, hypothesis, thesis, math problem/equation, science laws)
- One hand movement near forehead- DREAM, CONCEPT, IDEA, PHILOSOPHY, HYPOTHESIS, THESIS
- ENOUGH (out), FULL (in- toward your wrist)
- THRIVE/ “VALUE-UP”/DEVELOP
- DEPRECIATION/”VALUE-DOWN”,
- COST/PRICE
- WORTH/VALUE/PRICE
- DOWN-PAYMENT/DEPOSIT
- RESERVE
- AMOUNT
- Auction
- Give each student the same amount of money (they will be in plastic bags, counted already).
- Students should receive a total of 10 reds, 5 teals, 6 yellows, 3 greens, 3 purples, 5 oranges, 1 pink
- Total of $1,425
- They will also get an equal amount of items to auction off (try and make sure there is an equal distribution of expensive and non cheaper items)
- “ALL LIST 2-1,425 DOLLAR, ITEMS/THINGS HAVE”
- Students will go in a circle one at a time to try and sell their item. They will begin with a description of their item that will try and get the other students to want to buy it.
- “TAKE TURNS DESCRIBE 1 ITEM”
- The other students will sign prices they are willing to pay for an item until the amount gets too high and there is only one person left willing to bid that high.
- “STUDENTS SIGN THEY PAY HOW MUCH. CONTINUE FINISH”
- The person who wins the bid will hand their money to the person selling and the person selling will give them the item.
- “WIN PERSON PAY MONEY TAKE ITEM/THING”
- Then the next student will get the chance to sell an item. This will keep going until all items have been sold or time runs out.
- “TAKE TURNS CONTINUE”
Wrap up
- Do you want to buy some of the items in real life?
- “YOU BUY REAL/TRUE WANT?”
- In your opinion is there anything expensive?
- “THINGS/ITEMS EXPENSIVE WHICH?”
- Have you ever gone to an auction in real life?
- “PAST YOU AUCTION GO-TO HAVE?”
Cultural Notes
In 2021, the Cam SOL and FENASEC held their first art auction for the Deaf to raise funding and awareness about Deaf identity and their mission to develop leadership skills.
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 understand how much something costs
- I can describe objects in a persuasive way
- I can talk about familiar items that I encounter in everyday life
