😘ASL Level 6, Activity 04-Relationships Pt.1 (Face-to-Face)

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Description:

Students will begin by discussing Valentine’s Day and their past experiences and current plans, this will lead into the main activity on relationship philosophy. Students will be challenged to support opinions they don’t necessarily agree with.

Semantic Topics: Relationships, Valentine’s Day, Dates, Planning, Experience, Opinions, Philosophy
Grammatical Structures: Vocabulary, Time, Sentence Structure

Products: Sharing experiences, planning,  justification

Practices: Agree and disagree cards with justification, discussion about Valentine’s Day experiences

Perspectives: Do Deaf and hearing relationships face the same issues? What factor does communication play?

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 5.1 Students use American Sign Language within and beyond the school setting.

Idaho Content Standards for World Languages:

  • Objective: COMM 1.1 Interact and negotiate meaning (spoken, signed, written conversation) to share information, reactions,
    feelings, and opinions
  • Standard CONN 1: Build, reinforce, and expand knowledge of other disciplines while using the target language to develop critical thinking/creative problem solving skills.
  • Objective: COMP 1.1 Observe formal and informal forms of language.

Can-Do Statements

NCSSFL-ACTFL Can-Do Statements:

  • I can exchange opinions on the pros and cons of different relationship philosophies.
  • I can debate with others on beliefs that are both familiar and unfamiliar to me.
  • I can participate in conversations regarding past personal experiences.

Materials Needed

Warm-up

Materials Needed for Warm-up

Conversation and Vocabulary

    1. Attendance
    2. Begin with 5-7 minutes of conversation
      • “START TIME 5-7 MINUTE CONVERSATION DISCUSS WHATEVER”
    3. Open up the Google Slides Presentation to the man with the pizza box.
    4. Vocabulary
      1. RELATIONSHIP
        • Hand shapes F connected by the pointer and thumb circle bouncing to and from the chest
      2. VALENTINES DAY
        • Both hand shapes 5 with bent middle finger creating the shape of a heart on the left of the chest
        • Non dom hand parallel to the ground across the chest dom hand shape 1 slowly compressing onto the non dom hand with the elbow touching the non dom fist
      3. OPINION
        • Dom hand shape compressed 0 located by the forehead with fingertips facing in moving in a circular motion
      4. DATE
        • Both hand shapes D palms facing one another fingertips moving in and touching once
      5. SWEETHEART
        • Both hand shapes 10 touching at the knuckles palms facing the chest located to the left of the chest with thumbs moving up and down
    5. Have a casual conversation with students about Valentine’s Day. Here are some guiding questions:
      1. What are you planning on doing this Valentine’s Day?
        • “NOW VALENTINES DAY YOUR PLANS WHAT?”
      2. What has been your best experience during Valentine’s Day?
        • “PAST VALENTINES DAY YOUR FAVORITE MEMORY WHAT?” 
      3. What’s your opinion of Valentine’s Day? Explain.
        • “YOU VALENTINE’S DAY OPINION WHAT? WHY?”
      4. What would be your ideal Valentine’s Day? Has that changed over time? Explain.
        • “YOU PERFECT VALENTINES DAY THINK WHAT? OPINION SAME BEFORE?”
    6. If any vocabulary comes up that students stumbled with, be sure to write that on the whiteboard and go over the sign at the end of the lab.

Main Activity

Materials Needed for Main Activity

Relationship Philosophies!

  1. Have ready the Agree and Disagree cards mixed together in a stack so that students cannot see which is which.
  2. Explain to students that for the next two weeks, they will be covering their morals on relationships as a whole and this lab serves as an introduction.
    • “FUTURE 2 WEEKS RELATIONSHIP THINK FEEL DISCUSS. NOW DAY START”
  3. Each slide will have an opinion about relationships.
    • “ALL SLIDES RELATIONSHIP OPINION HAVE”
  4. Allow students to read the slide as the Lab Assistant signs the slide.
  5. Each student will pick a card from the Agree/Disagree pile.
    • “ALL AGREE DISAGREE CARD HAVE”
  6. Whether or not this is their true opinion about the relationship situation, they are to defend their assigned point of view.
    • “YOUR OPINION WHATEVER. YOUR CARD DEFEND”
  7. If the students are having trouble getting started, the Lab Assistant can play Devil’s Advocate, suggesting pros and cons for each side.
  8. After the conversation dies down, allow the students to express their genuine opinion about the topic.
    • “YOUR TRUE OPINION WHAT?”

Wrap-up

  1. How did it make you feel to support the side you were assigned?
    • “YOU FEEL SUPPORT CARD OPINION HOW?”
  2. Did someone bring up a point that changed your mind? What was it? Why was that so impactful for you?
    • “OTHER PERSON SAY OPINION YOUR MIND CHANGE? THEY SAY WHAT? IMPACT YOU WHY?” 
  3. Have you ever experienced a situation like this before, whether personally or someone else you know?
    • “PAST YOU HAPPEN SAME EXPERIENCE? PERSONALLY [SHIFT] OTHER PERSON” 
  4. Any other opinions about this topic?
    • “OTHER OPINIONS?” 

Deaf Culture

Deaf individuals and couples face the same issues with relationships hearing people do, although opinions on Deaf culture and communication can create problems in relationships where one or both people are Deaf that hearing couples do not face. 

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 exchange opinions on the pros and cons of different relationship philosophies.
  • I can debate with others on beliefs that are both familiar and unfamiliar to me.
  • I can participate in conversations regarding past personal experiences.

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