🎁ASL Level 4, Activity 9-Gift Giving (Face-to-Face)

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Description:

Students will select gifts based on described interests and likes. Students will also tell a story about the best or worst gift they’ve received.

Semantic Topics: Product, Gift, Give, Interests, Likes, Exchange, Preference, Worst, Best
Grammatical Structures: Vocabulary, Sentence structure

Products: Describing likes and dislikes, storytelling

Practices: Selecting gifts for peers, telling stories of past presents

Perspectives: In order to correctly describe stories of the past you need to understand and apply correct sentence structure

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.

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.

Can-Do Statements

NCSSFL-ACTFL Can-Do Statements:

  • I can select a gift based on someone’s likes and interests.
  • I can exchange preferences about which stores, sports, and other interests.
  • I can interact with a partner to find out their favorite things.

Materials Needed

Warm-Up

Materials Needed for Warm-Up

  1. Start with 5-minute conversations about whatever they want
    • “NOW DAY START TIME 5 MINUTE CONVERSATION DISCUSS TOPIC WHATEVER”
  2. Have a discussion based on the questions below. Encourage students to give detailed answers and stay away from “yes” and “no” questions.
    • “NOW GROUP DISCUSS SPRING BREAK QUESTIONS. ANSWER YES NO DON’T”
      1. If you could do anything during spring break what would you do?
        • “YOU SPRING HOLIDAY DREAM WHAT?” 
      2. Where would you go?
        • “YOU GO-TO WHERE?”
      3. Who would you see?
        • “YOU SEE WHO?” 
      4. What would you do?
        • “YOU DO-DO?”

Main Activity

Materials Needed for Main Activity

  1. Students will first describe their best and worst gift
    1. Encourage students to describe why they felt so strongly about those gifts
      • “NOW TAKE TURNS PAST YOUR BEST GIFT WORST GIFT DESCRIBE”
  2. Gift shopping
    1. Have students introduce themselves including these items
    2. It is helpful to send an order of students’ names in the chat so there is no confusion on whose turn it is to share
      •  “TAKE TURNS 1-5 QUESTIONS ANSWER”
      1. Favorite color
      2. Favorite place
      3. Favorite activity
      4. Favorite store
      5. Your personality in one sign
  2. Students will then be put into partners in breakout rooms (or as a group) and be tasked to get 3 gifts for each other.
    • “NOW LEARN MORE MEET FINISH BREAKOUT ROOMS 2 MINUTES. 3 GIFT PARTNER GIVE.”
  3. After students are done picking gifts, they will share to the group their choices
    • “FINISH TELL GROUP GIFTS PICK WHY”
  4. If they finish quickly, have them re-partner and repeat.

WRAP-UP

  1. Are you excited for spring break next week?
    • “FUTURE WEEK YOU SPRING HOLIDAY EXCITED?”
  2. Was it difficult to think of gifts for your partners?
    • “PARTNER GIFT THINK HARD EASY WHICH?”
  3. How are you feeling about your level of sign vocabulary knowledge?
    • “YOU SIGNS VOCABULARY KNOW FEEL HOW?”

Deaf Culture

Deaf individuals tend to be more blunt/straightforward in their communication. This can come off as rude in the hearing community but it is pretty normal in the Deaf community because expression is such a natural part of communication in ASL, even when receiving a gift they may not particularly like.

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 select a gift based on someone’s likes and interests.
  • I can exchange preferences about which stores, sports, and other interests.
  • I can interact with a partner to find out their favorite things.

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Let's Chat! American Sign Language (ASL) Copyright © 2023 by Armilene Cabreros; Audra Dooley; Claire Oberg; Collin Dauenhauer; Delaney Obaldia; Emily Harrison; Emma Wilkinson; Gabi Jones; Izabelle Finner; Jacob Steele; Kate Maryon; Madison Mackey; Megan McAllister; Monica Potts; Rebecca Mulgrew; Robyn Holland; Samantha Showers; Sarra Foerster; Serena Krause; Sophia Orm; Tiana Gratiot; and Tori Fisher is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International License, except where otherwise noted.

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