🎮ASL Level 5, Activity 13-Games! (Online)

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Description:

Students will play 2 different games to get to know each other better

Semantic Topics: Games, Truth, Lies, Would You Rather
Grammatical Structures: Fingerspelling, Storytelling

Products: Games, fingerspelling, Deaf culture

Practices: Identifying crucial aspects of Deaf culture, sharing personal experiences
Perspectives: What is an invisible disability? What inventions for the Deaf have also benefited hearing people?

Standards

NCSSFL-ACTFL World-Readiness Standards:

  • Standard 1.3: Students present information, concepts, and ideas in American Sign Language to an audience of viewers on a variety of topics.

Idaho Content Standards for World Languages:

  • Objective: 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 explain facts about myself to others.
  • I can tell stories about myself.
  • I can engage in discussion in the target language with others.

Materials Needed

Warm-up

Materials Needed for Warm-up

  1. Ask students to type their name and ID # for attendance
    • “YOU LIST 2- NAME, ID NUMBER TYPE”
  2. Discuss the following questions about the video
    1. Are you surprised Deaf people listen to music?
      • “DEAF PEOPLE MUSIC LISTEN TO. YOU SURPRISE?”
    2. How do Deaf people listen to music?”
      • “DEAF PEOPLE MUSIC LISTEN TO HOW?’
    3. How does the brain process lip reading?”
      • “LIP READING BRAIN PROCESS HOW?”
    4. Does Deafness have a ‘look’?
      • “DEAF IDENTITY LOOK HAVE?”
    5. Who benefits from subtitles?
      • “SUBTITLES BENEFIT WHO?”
    6. Do all Deaf people have the same level of Deafness?
      • “DEAF PEOPLE DEAF LEVE SAME HAVE?”
    7. What else did you find interesting?
      • “OTHER FACTS INTERESTING WHAT?

Main Activity

Materials Needed for Main Activity

  • Never Have I Ever cards (on canva or on doc)
  1. Review Vocabulary
    1. BONE
    2. SURGERY
    3. DISNEYLAND
    4. FALL IN LOVE
    5. SOCIAL MEDIA
  2. Two Truths and a Lie
    1. Each person will brainstorm two truths and a lie about themselves. Have students write these down on whiteboards.
      • “NOW GAME PLAY NAME rhq-WHAT? 2 TRUTHS 1 LIE
    2. Each student will sign their two truths and a lie. The other students will guess which one is the lie.
      • “TAKE TURNS LEARN PERSON SIGN LIST 3-2 TRUTHS 1 LIE. FINISH GROUP GUESS LIE WHICH”
    3. After everyone has guessed, the student will reveal the lie. The student will also elaborate on each truth.
      • “GUESS FINISH LEARN PERSON SHARE LIE WHICH. EXPLAIN TRUTHS” 
    4. Then the next student will go.
      • “NEXT LEARN PERSON SHARE CONTINUE” 
  3. Never Have I Ever
    1. Students will take turns receiving a “Never Have I Ever” card
      • “ME ONE LEARN PERSON CARD TOPIC PAST ME NEVER SEND” 
    2. The student with the card will sign what the card says
      • “LEARN PERSON CARD SIGN ANSWER YES NO” 
    3. Then each person will sign whether or not they have done that or not (this can be done with thumbs up/down)
      • “ALL SHARE PAST DO YES NO WHICH?”
    4. Make sure that each student thoroughly explains their answer if they have done it (What’s the story behind it? What happened?)
      • “PAST YOU DO YES? EXPLAIN”
    5. Then the next student will receive a card, and this will continue
      • “NEXT LEARN PERSON NEW CARD HAVE CONTINUE”

Wrap-up

  1. Did you feel like you were able to properly communicate your experiences with others?
    • “YOU PAST DO COMMUNICATE CAN HARD EASY WHICH?”
  2. Were there signs that came up that you didn’t know?
    • “SIGNS DON’T KNOW WANT USE WHICH?”

Deaf Culture

There are ways to ask Deaf people questions without isolating them more than they already feel but it is not a Deaf person’s job to educate hearing people on Deaf culture or which questions are offensive and which aren’t…hearing people should educate themselves!

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 explain facts about myself to others.
  • I can tell stories about myself.
  • I can engage in discussion in the target language with others.

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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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