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Upon completion of the course, students will be able to:
1. Synthesize receptive and expressive ASL skills and participate in a
variety of grammatically correct advanced intermediate dialogues in
ASL involving such activities as exchanging personal information;
describing immediate and extended family histories and life events;
and talking about the weekend.
2. Given a set of events in a family history, synthesize the events and
various ASL sequencing techniques into a concise grammatically
correct advanced intermediate narrative in ASL of the events in the
life history.
3. Analyze and produce a description of the nationalities and ancestries
of several persons and, using events in their family histories and
ASL sequencing techniques, create a grammatically correct advanced
intermediate extended narrative in ASL of the family history.
4. Synthesize a grammatically correct description of various abstract and
real physical objects using a selection of ASL classifier signs.
5. Organize information in ASL about weekend activities into a
grammatically correct description of past events or a plan for future
events in ASL.
6. Generate solutions in ASL to a variety of signed problems involving
numbers from 100-1,000.
7. Outline the major points of several topics about Deaf culture,
including: More biographies of important Deaf Americans; the World
Federation of the Deaf; an example of a legend: the Deaf spies
of the civil war; theater works with a Deaf-hearing cross cultural
focus or about Deaf people and deaf culture; and Natural and
artificial sign systems used for educating and communicating with
Deaf people.
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I. Exchanging Personal Information in ASL About Life Events (Advanced)
A. Narrating events in a life history using ages as referents
B. Sequencing techniques in narrating a life history
C. Applying generalized time to a narrated life history
D. Dealing with unexpected changes in narrating a life history
E. Phrase and vocabulary review
F. Grammatical concepts
1. When clauses (advanced)
2. Phrasing for sequencing events (advanced)
3. Contrastive structure (advanced)
G. Deaf culture topic: More biographies of important Deaf
Americans
II. Describing and Narrating Life Events in a History of One's
Ancestors (Advanced)
A. Signs for various countries around the world
B. Describing ancestry and family backgrounds in terms of
nationalities
C. Giving a narrative of an extended family or ancestral history
D. Phrase and vocabulary review
E. Grammatical concepts
1. Possessive forms (advanced)
2. Descriptive and locative classifiers (advanced)
3. Dates and addresses (advanced)
F. Deaf culture topic: the World Federation of the Deaf
III. Describing and Identifying Things in ASL
A. Describing abstract objects in terms of size, viewer's
perspectives and specific designs and features of the object
B. Describing actual objects, both symmetrical and asymmetrical
in terms of size, viewer's perspective and specific features of
the object
C. Describing variations in shapes of various objects and patterns
D. Phrase and vocabulary review
E. Grammatical concepts
1. Descriptive classifiers for shapes, patterns and textures
2. Instrument classifiers
3. non-manual markers: "oo", "cha", "mm"
F. Deaf culture topic: an example of a legend: the Deaf spies of
the civil war
IV. Using ASL Description and Sequencing to Describe a Process
A. Describing a sequence of events in carrying out a food recipe
B. Sequencing other processes and procedures
C. Phrase and vocabulary review
D. Grammatical concepts
1. non-dominant hand as reference
2. Measurement descriptives
E. Deaf culture topic: Theater works with a deaf-hearing cross
cultural focus
V. Talking About Past Weekend Events in ASL
A. Seasons of the year and typical activities
B. Expressing opinions about activities
C. Dialogue about a person's weekend events
D. Describing disruption of plans
E. Phrase and vocabulary review
F. Grammatical concepts
1. Temporal sequencing of past events
2. Time signs with durative aspect-past
3. Element classifiers
G. Deaf culture topic: Theater works about Deaf people and Deaf
culture
VI. Using ASL to Make Plans for Future Events
A. Discussing suitability of a vacation or tourist location
B. Planning a special weekend event
C. Numbers from 120 - 1,000
D. Phrase and vocabulary review
E. Grammatical concepts
1. Temporal sequencing of future events
2. Time signs with durative aspect-future
3. Confirming questions
F. Deaf culture topic: natural and artificial sign systems used
for educating and communicating with Deaf people
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1. Reading 15-20 pages per week of informal materials about Deaf culture
2. Writing three to four 2-3-page compositions about Deaf culture
topics.
3. Problem-solving assignments
a. Completing practice exercises from the workbook, video and
teacher-prepared materials.
b. Group practice activities, games and other activities.
c. Reviewing lessons from the workbook and video and teacher-prepared
materials.
4. Skill demonstrations
a. Performing conversational dialogues in ASL.
b. three-four presentations in ASL about Deaf culture topics.
c. Viewing and interpreting short passages in ASL.
d. Performing short stories and narratives in ASL.
5. Weekly or bi-weekly quizzes, chapter exams and final.
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SIGNING NATURALLY, STUDENT VIDEOTEXT AND WORKBOOK, LEVEL TWO by Lentz,
Mikos and Smith. DawnSign Press, 1989. (Level two, Lessons 15-17 and
review)
Instructor prepared materials.