👵ASL Level 6, Activity 02-Age (Online)

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Description:

Students will begin with a few vocabulary words and a conversation about generations and their opinions on the generation they are a part of. They will then discuss age limitations and their opinions on laws. The second half of the main activity has students reflect on their own childhood and their perception of what their parents’ lives were like growing up. The lab will end with a few wrap-up questions to debrief.

Semantic Topics: Age, Limitations, Opinions, Laws, Generations, Perception, Childhood
Grammatical Structures: Numbers, Time, Vocabulary, Sentence Structure

Products: Family, age, subjective storytelling, opinions

Practices: Sharing opinions about one’s generation, discussion about childhood experience
Perspectives: Are generational differences the same in Deaf culture?

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 3.1: Students reinforce and further their knowledge of other disciplines through 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.
  • CLTR 1.1: Analyze the cultural practices/patterns of behavior accepted as the societal norm in the target culture.
  • CONN 1.2: Relate information studied in other subjects to the target language and culture.

Can-Do Statements

NCSSFL-ACTFL Can-Do Statements:

  • I can express and support my opinion of familiar laws concerning age.
  • I can participate in a discussion about the social reform issue of age restrictions.
  • I can have a conversation comparing and contrasting my generational experiences with others of different generations.

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. Start with 5-7 minute conversations in breakout rooms
    • “START BREAKOUT ROOMS TIME 5-7 MINUTE CONVERSATION DISCUSS WHATEVER”
  3. Flip to the Vocabulary slide to review/teach students appropriate signs for the age discussion including:
    1. GENERATION
      • Dom hand and non-dom hand bent, closed 5 hand shapes on right side of body, movement hands rolling over one another
    2. PERCEPTION (of a person)
      • Dom hand shape 2 palm orientation facing down parallel to the ground. Non dom hand shape closed 5 location palm orientation facing down parallel to the ground with thumb closest to the chin location of both hands to the right of chin. Dom hand movement under stationary non dom hand
    3. VALUE
      • Both hand shapes F pointers and thumbs facing one another and moving in a bouncing motion located at the front of the chest
    4. ESTABLISH
      • Non dom hand stationary hand shape A palm orientation parallel to the ground with thumb close to the chest pointing to the left. Dom hand shape 10 movement sitting on top of non dom hand with thumb up
    5. IMAGINE
      • Dom hand shape I touching the closest side of the forehead moving up and out palm orientation facing the head
  4. Flip to the Your Generation? slide and follow these prompting questions:
    1. Which generation do you fall under?
        • “GENERATION YOU WHICH?” 
    2. Is this surprising to you? Why?
        • “YOU SURPRISED YOU? WHY?” 
    3. Do you feel you belong in a different generation?
        • “YOU DIFFERENT GENERATION FEEL BELONG BETTER YOU? YES/NO?”
    4. Does this change your perception of other generations?
        • ” NOW YOU PERCEPTION CHANGE OTHER GENERATION HOW?” 

Main Activity

Age Limitations!

  1. Students will take a look at the picture on each slide and guess via typing their answer and privately messaging the lab instructor about what the age restriction is for that concept.
    • “ME PICTURE SHOW-YOU. YOU ANSWER GUESS TYPE SEND ONLY ME”
  2. The answers are shown on the Presenter’s Notes on each slide *make sure the slides are in presentation mode so students can’t see these notes*
  3. After the age restriction is established, have a discussion about the opinion of these restrictions.
    1. Is this fair? If not, why?
        • “THAT FAIR? YES [SHIFT] NO?”
    2. Should this be changed?
        • “YOU CHANGE SHOULD THINK?”
    3. Why was this age restriction put in place?
        • “AGE PROTECT ESTABLISH WHY?”
    4. What are some situations where this might be called into question?
        • “SITUATION HAPPEN MAYBE WHEN? HOW?”
    5. Do you know of any other countries that follow this law?
        • “YOU KNOW OTHER COUNTRIES FOLLOW LAW? YES/NO?” 

Keep the Presentation on the your generation slide while facilitating conversation about age.

    1. While this should be in a natural conversation format, follow the included questions to spark discussion.
    2. Be sure that all students are contributing to the discussion.
    3. The Kahoot Link ,Additional Questions on Age Limitations, and Age Conversation Topics can be used here if the lab requires a more guided discussion but it is not always necessary
  1.  General age conversation topics:
    1. How was your childhood? Would you change anything from it? Why or why not?
      • “YOUR CHILDHOOD GOOD/BAD/NEUTRAL? YOU WANT CHANGE ANYTHING YOU? WHY/ WHY NOT?” 
    2. What kind of parenting style did your parents take on? Would you want that for your own children?
      • “KIND OF PARENTING YOUR PARENTS DO WHAT? SAME PARENTING STYLE FOR YOUR OWN CHILDREN YOU WANT YES/NO?”
    3. Do you want children?
        • “YOU CHILDREN WANT YOU?” 
    4. Where do you imagine you’ll be in the next 10, 20, 30 years?
        • “FUTURE YOU YOURSELF IMAGINE  WHERE LIST: 1. 10 2. 20 3. 30 YEARS?
    5. What are values you hold now that you think will continue later in life?
        • “YOU VALUES HAVE NOW. LATER LIFE YOU THINK YOU CONTINUE WHAT?” 
    6. What are values that you once held that no longer are relevant or important in your life?
        • “PAST YOU HAVE VALUES, NOW YOU DON’T HAVE WHAT?”
    7. How do you think children will look at our generation once they are our age? Why?
        • “FUTURE YOU THINK CHILDREN LOOK OUR GENERATION THINK WHAT? WHY?” 
  2. Millennials topics:
    1. How do you think your parents view our generation as a whole? Is this different than how they see you?
      • “YOU THINK YOUR PARENTS LOOK YOUR GENERATION HOW? THEY SEE YOU DIFFERENT HOW?” 
    2. Where do older generations get their perceptions of us? Are these correct? Why or why not?
      • “OLDER GENERATIONS GET THERE PERCEPTION YOUR GENERATION WHERE? THEY CORRECT YES NO? WHY?”
    3. How do you think our generation will view the coming generation? Why?
      • “FUTURE YOU THINK YOUR GENERATION SEE NEW GENERATION HOW? WHY?”
    4. How would you like to change or keep the views of our generation?
      • “YOU WANT KEEP [SHIFT] CHANGE OUR GENERATION VIEWS WHICH?” 
    5. What are some aspects you are proud of in terms of the generation you were born in? What aspects do you disagree with or are not as proud of?
      • “YOU YOUR GENERATION PROUD WHAT? PARTS YOU AGREE [SHIFT] DISAGREE WHAT?” 

Wrap-up

  1. What are some topics that you feel passionate about concerning age?
      • “YOU TOPIC AGE FEEL PASSION ABOUT WHAT?”
  2. What new signs have you learned today? How can you use these in your everyday life?
      • NEW SIGNS YOU LEARN NOW DAY WHAT? YOU USE SIGNS YOUR EVERYDAY LIFE HOW?” 
  3. Any other questions?
      • “QUESTIONS OTHER?” 

Deaf Culture

Deaf individuals experience the same generation differences that hearing individuals do although the combination of hearing and Deaf family members has an impact on these differences.

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 express and support my opinion of familiar laws concerning age.
  • I can participate in a discussion about the social reform issue of age restrictions.
  • I can have a conversation comparing and contrasting my generational experiences with others of different generations.

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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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