SIGNING NATURALLY ASL BEGINNER UNIT 2.

EXCHANGE INFORMATION
UNIT PLAN | WEEK 3 | DAY 7 | DURATION: 50 MINS


Course Description

This first-year course will teach

basic signs, grammar,

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fingerspelling, and basic cultural
aspects of the Deaf community.

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Students will learn both basic
productive and comprehensive Course Outcomes:

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communication skills. Activities
Students will be able to:

will include but not be limited to:

working in pairs or groups, role
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Demonstrate spontaneous conversation using
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playing, skits, and presentations. various sentence types and questions in ASL.
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Students will be expected to 2. Produce moderately complex directions using ASL

classifiers: descriptive, locative, and spatial
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practice/study the language

referencing.
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3. Demonstrate and recognize numbers 1-99

4. Produce narratives using appropriate role-shifting
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Teaching Methods
techniques to discuss at least several characters.
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5. Identify the differences between hearing and Deaf

Direct Method cultures.
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Students directly learn the 6. Analyze, evaluate, and create ASL stories.
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language, simultaneously, gain

the respect for diversity.

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Sociocultural Unit Outcomes:

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Students learn the sociocultural

aspects, including cultural and 1. Comprehensive: Students will be able to interact with
identity issues.
American Sign Language users and respond to
Interactional conversations and questions in American Sign
Students learn how to work Language as a whole at beginning level.
together pairs or groups in order
to expand their learning, involving 2. Productive: Students will be able to demonstrate the
families, friends and co-workers structure of American Sign Language to form signs
through cooperation.
properly as a whole at a beginning level.
Learner-Centered
3. Cultural Diversity: Students will be able to define Deaf
Students assertively learn
culture in addition to their own cultures to develop an
language and culture through
appreciation for others and ability to interact within
their own inner passion and
multicultural communities and the world at large.
motivation, guided by teacher.

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Lesson Outcome
Aligned
At the end of the
Lesson Lesson with Aligned with ACTFL
lesson, the student Assessment Course Standards
Activity
will be able to: Outcome

1) Identify and apply

appropriate gender
Paired to
signs while respecting
introduce each 1.2, 1.3, 3.2, 4.2,
current trends. Gender Quiz, & Homework 1, 2, & 3
other about 5.1
signs include “they”,

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their identities.
“their”, “theirs”,
“pronouns”,

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Paired
2) Demonstrate ASL
grammar when
dialogue
practice using
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Quiz & Homework 1 & 2
introducing gender pronouns 3.2, 4.1
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signs. based on topic

on keynotes
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3) Compare cultures Watch several

and observe members videos about
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Quiz & Homework 2&3 1.3, 3.1,4.1 5.1, 5.2

of cultures.
individuals
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experience
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Tentative
Due
Schedule Lesson Assignment
Date
Week 3
Exchanging Information
Unit 2- Student
Monday
“Talking about Genders & Workbook
8/20
Appearances.” Pg. 48-51

Student
Wednesday
Unit 2-

Workbook

8/22 “Giving Information about Yourself”

Pg. 53-57

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Video

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Unit 2-

Assessment-

Friday
Review

Giving

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8/24 “Start introducing Narrating
Information
Experience with Languages.”
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Unit 2-

“Identities, Languages, & Verbs,
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Places of learning, How much you Student

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Monday

remember, Degree of difficulty, and Workbook 


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Actions & Attentiveness”

Pg. 61-64
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Video
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Unit 2-
Assessment-

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Wednesday

“Identify the Classroom & Asking Narrative about

8/29
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about Leisure Activity” Your Language

Background
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Unit 2-

Friday

Review & Activity

8/31
Quiz

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GENDER/APPEARANCE
LESSON PLAN | WEEK 2 | 6 DAY| DURATION: 50 MINS

Lesson Plan Presentation (20 mins)

Roll Call ( 5 minutes)

• Ask individuals for each other’s

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(peers) name and they responded
by finger spelled their name

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Introduce Gender and appearance

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(20 minutes)

• Step by step using keynotes

(Activity-provide index card to have
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them to write about based on their
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identity (pronoun-collect them in a

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safe basket and then students will

be able to understand the content
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according to appearance, enders

and able to response with respect).

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Interactive Activity (15 minutes)

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• www.peardeck.com

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Review (10 minutes)

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• Review vocabulary signs from

today’s lesson.

Fifteen minutes activity

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Material/Equipment

• Signing Naturally: Student

workbook

• GoReact
1.Instruct students to 2. Introduce gender
• Smartboard
write on the index signs and their
• School’s Chrome Laptop
card about their appearances
identities including
• Index card
their first and last
• Powerpoint connect to names.

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projector

• White Board

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• Mini white board

• EXPO dry-erase markers

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(various colors)

• Writing utilities

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3. Teach Pronouns 4. Please go to
• Notepad to write notes and (e.g. I, we, they, www.app.peardeck.com.
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vocabulary***
me, and others) Students will download the
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app on chrome(laptop).
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Classroom Setting:

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Seating chart will be in a

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circular shape.

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Students will face forward to

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see board and teacher.

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5. Students will use a 6. Students will follow

code to log in. instructions given by
instructor.

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Homework Assignment Rubric

Homework Requirements
• Students are expected to upload their videos on GoReact.Time length: 1-2 minutes
1. Introduce your identites( your names origins, genders, etc..).

2. Discuss language(s) during upbringing and difficulty level of acquisition.

3. Compare personal combinations of two genders and leisure activities.

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Sign Production 1 2 3 4 5
Signs are crisp, clear, and fully produced. All In Progress Basic Adequate Good Excellent
parameters are correct for the intended
signs. Dominant hand is used appropriately.

Meets Requirements 1 2 3 4 5
Completes the requirement satisfactorily
In Progress Basic Adequate Good Excellent

Facial Grammar 1 2 3 4 5
Eye brows are raised at the beginning of a new In Progress Basic Adequate Good Excellent
topic/sentence. Questions/statements are clearly

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identifiable. Mouth morphemes are used naturally,
and mouthing of English words is used minimally

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(or not at all). Eye contact with camera is made
and confidence is displayed. Presentation is
engaging (not monotone).

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Sentence Structure LE
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Presentation is well thought out and planned.
 In Progress Basic Adequate Good Excellent
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Much signing takes place and is at or above

expected ASL vocabulary level. Signs complete
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thoughts/sentence (not fragments). ASL word

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order is used at course level. Course specific

concepts (such as pronouns, loan signs, ranking/
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listing, directional verbs, spatial agreement,

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numbering systems, time inflection, etc.) are used

appropriately. All required elements of
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presentation are addressed.

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Pacing and Fluency 1 2 3 4 5

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Signs at appropriate speed for his/her expected In Progress Basic Adequate Good Excellent
level. Pauses when needed for transitions and/or
emphasis. Arm is still when fingerspelling, and
signing is smooth. Sentences flow and are not
choppy.

Signing Space 1 2 3 4 5
Signs are produced in an appropriate “signing In Progress Basic Adequate Good Excellent
window.” Neutral space is used for role shifting,
showing locations, and/or other grammatical
concepts.

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Sample of Unit 2 with Questions & Answers

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Unit 2 Quiz

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Total points: 32
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Quiz Question #1-6, 2 points each

Quiz Questions #7-11, 4 points each

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References

Smith, C., Lentz, M.E., & Mikos, K.(2008). Signing naturally, teacher’s curriculum
guide, units 1-6. San Diego, CA: DawnSignPress.

“ACTFL.” ACTFL Proficiency Guidelines 2012 | American Council on the Teaching of

Foreign Languages, www.actfl.org/.

Pear Deck. (n.d.). Retrieved from www.peardeck.com/

Acknowledgments

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Thank you to

• Breanna Andrews, Crafton Hills College

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• Karen Soza

• Tabitha Veneable

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• Felicia Williams

• Ida Wilding

• Topher Gonzalez

• Raychelle Harris

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• Curt Radford

• Josie Krueger

• Christopher Johnson

• Ali Faridi

• Sumit Malik

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• Troy Thompson

• And Class of 2017 - 2018 Cohorts

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