🎓ASL Level 6, Activity 13-Future Plans (Face-to-Face)
Description:
Students will begin with fingerspelling practice that will lead to vocab review. They will then answer a series of questions about their plans after they graduate.
Semantic Topics: Plans, Future, Graduation
Grammatical Structures: Vocabulary, Fingerspelling
Products: Graduation, Planning
Practices: Sharing future plans
Perspectives: What career fields do Deaf people tend to go into? What limitations do they face when applying for jobs?
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 5.2 Students show evidence of becoming lifelong learners by using American Sign Language for personal enjoyment and enrichment.
Idaho Content Standards for World Languages:
- Objective: COMM 2.1 Understand, interpret, and analyze what is heard, read, or viewed on a variety of topics.
- Objective: COMT 1.2 Discuss personal preferences in activities and events both within and beyond the classroom.
Can-Do Statements
NCSSFL-ACTFL Can-Do Statements:
- I can participate in spontaneous spoken, written, or signed conversations on familiar topics, creating sentences and series of sentences to ask and answer a variety of questions.
- I can participate fully and effectively in spontaneous spoken, written, or signed discussions and debates on issues and ideas ranging from broad general interests to my areas of specialized expertise, including supporting arguments and exploring hypotheses.
Materials Needed
Warm-up
Materials Needed for Warm-up
- Start with 5-7 Minute conversations
- “NOW DAY START TIME 5-7 MINUTE CONVERSATIONS DISCUSS WHATEVER”
- (FS Practice)
- Instructions: Fingerspell the 5 words and then teach them the signs!
- Goal: To improve receptive skills and learn new signs!
FS Words ASL Signs 1. VACATION Open 5 – Bounce – chest 2. SPRING MOd o to open 5 3. BOISE B shake 4. NAMPA N – honk 5. FLOWERS Mod o each side
- Review Vocabulary
- FUTURE
- Dom hand shaped “flat” with palm oriented inward and positioned flat near side of head. Extend arm out directly in front, keeping arm slightly bent.
- PLAN
- Left and right hands shape “flat”. Hands parallel to one another with several inches between. Start on one side of the body, then slide to the opposite side.
- GRADUATE
- Dom hand shaped “G” and non-dom hand shaped “flat.” Non-dom hand palm is oriented upward and dom hand is hovering above. Dom hand wrist makes one full circle, then lands on top of non-dom hand.
- FUTURE
- Have students take turns asking and answering the discussion questions:
- Are you about to graduate?
- “FUTURE SOON YOU GRADUATE?”
- What are you looking forward to the most about graduating?
- “GRADUATE FINISH LOOK FORWARD WHAT?”
- Are you about to graduate?
Main Activity
Materials Needed for Main Activity
Plans after graduation
- Go through the questions on the document with the students and have an open conversation
- “NOW GRADUATE FINISH PLANS DISCUSS”
Wrap-up
- Do you feel that you’ve gotten to know your peers within the ASL program at BSU?
- “KNOW YOUR LAB-MATES BSU ASL PROGRAM ALLOW KNOW BETTER YOU?”
- Did obtaining a minor in ASL have an impact on your future plans?
- “YOU ASL MINOR FINISH. FUTURE PLANS IMPACT?”
Deaf Culture
Professions and future plans have always been limited for Deaf individuals. However, as more people learn sign language and about Deaf culture, more doors are open for the Deaf community and they are slowly looked at as equals rather than disabled.
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 participate in spontaneous spoken, written, or signed conversations on familiar topics, creating sentences and series of sentences to ask and answer a variety of questions.
- I can participate fully and effectively in spontaneous spoken, written, or signed discussions and debates on issues and ideas ranging from broad general interests to my areas of specialized expertise, including supporting arguments and exploring hypotheses.
