🆚ASL Level 3, Activity 6-Would You Rather? (Face-to-Face)
Description:
Students will be able to translate scenarios from English to American Sign Language using classifiers and correct sentence structure. Students will also play a game in which they are focusing on differentiating between choices.
Products: Translating, use of classifiers, and expressing opinions
Practices: Translating English scenarios to ASL while using CLs and expression and explanation of different opinions
Perspectives: It is important to utilize CLs when correctly describing scenarios in ASL as well as the ability to express, explain, and defend personal opinions
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 1.3 – Students present information, concepts, and ideas in American Sign Language to an audience of viewers on a variety of topics
- 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: 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
Can-Do Statements
NCSSFL-ACTFL Can-Do Statements:
- I can translate scenarios in American Sign Language
- I can use non-manual signs to express thoughts
- I can communicate with my peers on pre-determined topics
Materials Needed
Warm-Up
Materials Needed for Warm-Up
- Start with 5-minute conversations
- “START TIME 5-MINUTE CONVERSATION DISCUSS WHATEVER”
- Translate Scenarios
- Each student will get one scenario card
- After reading it to themselves, students will practice with a partner to translate the scenario
- Be sure to use correct sentence structure and classifiers!
- “PARTNERS ALL GRAB HAPPEN CARD. PRACTICE TRANSLATE TOGETHER. PRACTICE LIST-2, 1-SENTENCE ORDER, 2-fs-CL”
- Students will then find a new partner and share their scenario
- “TRANSLATE FINISH NEW PARTNER SHARE HAPPEN CARD fs-ASL SENTENCE STRUCTURE”
- Main Activity
Materials Needed for Main Activity
Would You Rather!
- Students will play the game, “Would You Rather” to focus on role shifting.
- “GAME PLAY NAME fs-WOULD YOU fs-RATHER”
- Emphasize role shifting and non-manuals when asking questions.
- “PRACTICE ROLE-SHIFT fs-NMM rhq-WHEN? ASKING QUESTIONS”
- Make sure students are concentrating on grammar and correct sentence structure
- Have the pile of Would You Rather cards on the table
- A student will one at a time draw a card and sign it to the rest of the lab
- “TAKE-TURNS GRAB 1 CARD SIGN QUESTION ASK GROUP”
- Each student will then answer accordingly based on the card
- “ALL ANSWER DISCUSS”
- Allow for a natural discussion on why students are picking the choice that they did
- Repeat
Wrap-Up
- Do you have any questions regarding the content reviewed today?
- “TODAY QUESTIONS HAVE?”
- What concepts are you struggling with in American Sign Language?
- “YOU fs-ASL HARD THINK WHAT?”
- Is there anything you feel you need to review?
- “PRACTICE MORE NEED WHAT?”
Culture Notes
Translating from English to ASL grammar is a part of the daily life of Deaf individuals living in a primarily hearing world especially because most Deaf people rely heavily on lip reading because most hearing people don’t know sign language.
End of Lab:
- Sign or show 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 translate scenarios in American Sign Language
- I can use non-manual signs to express thoughts
- I can communicate with my peers on pre-determined topics
