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000 - Asl Course Overview

This document provides an overview of an American Sign Language junior high option course. Over several weeks, students will learn new signs, grammar, and culture to grow in their fluency. Topics covered will include the alphabet, directional verbs, time, and comparing ASL to English. Students will be assessed on their participation in class activities and discussions, an ASL research project, and an original story presentation. Progress will be marked on a four-point scale based on effort.

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000 - Asl Course Overview

This document provides an overview of an American Sign Language junior high option course. Over several weeks, students will learn new signs, grammar, and culture to grow in their fluency. Topics covered will include the alphabet, directional verbs, time, and comparing ASL to English. Students will be assessed on their participation in class activities and discussions, an ASL research project, and an original story presentation. Progress will be marked on a four-point scale based on effort.

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American Sign Language Jr.

high Option course


Over the next several weeks, students of ASL (both beginner and those with experience in
the language) will be challenged to grow in their use of the language. By learning new
signs (verbs), classifiers, ASL grammar and Deaf Culture, students will become more
comfortable in the language, and, accordingly, more fluent than when they began.
Topics to be learned and practiced:
Note: although the following will be addressed roughly in the order given, many
will be revisited in classwork and review games throughout the course.
Deaf Culture
ABCs / general introductions stuff about you
Fingerspelling
Basic nouns
Oh Canada
Directional verbs
Grammar
Time
Reading ASL
Classifiers/handshapes
Comparing ASL and English (ie: idioms, literal and figurative language)
How you will be assessed (3 areas)
Students will be observed in the first few classes, in regards to their ASL ability. Students
will be expected to improve throughout the course, through in-class practice and out-ofclass practice.
1. Active participation in class ASL discussions activities, and practice times.
Marked improvement in areas of weakness.
o Participation in review games
o Learning new signs
o Willingness to help others get better
o Not speaking (audibly) at inappropriate times
2. ASL research project
3. Original Story Presentation (final test)
Students will be marked on a 4-point scale in the following areas:
4 Excellent - consistently putting forth their best effort
3- Good - the majority of the time they are putting forth their best effort
2- Satisfactory they are putting forth their best effort much of the time, but
there have been several reminders to get back on task
1 Lacking- student shows sporadic or little effort in regards to ASL
Note: when you write an ASL word in English, you use all caps. This is called a
Gloss.

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