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High School American Sign Language II

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American Sign Language 1

Description

Continue your journey through the vibrant worlds of EARth and EYEth. It’s time to take your American Sign Language skills to the next level! In this course, you’ll meet three friends: Rebecca, Erica, and Benjamin (who is Deaf), as they navigate their first year of high school. You'll follow their daily adventures. Along the way, you will learn to express your routines, sign about your family, give a review of a restaurant, tell about your healthy habits, and talk about your weekend getaways and your dream vacation. You'll make stops along the way to broaden your understanding of Deaf culture and its rich history and compare it with your own culture. Join us and discover the power of visual language in a whole new way. Your adventure in American Sign Language continues here!

Module One: Daily Life

 -Morning, school, after school, and evening routines

-Deaf vs. hearing chores

-Recurring time signs

-Deaf President Now

-Class schedule

-Listing and referencing back

-Finish as a transition

-Durative time signs

-Noun/verb pairs

-Will, not yet, finish


Module Two: Meet the Family 

-Family members 

-ASL literature types

-CODAs/KODAs 

-Comparison of hearing/deaf weddings 

-Masculine vs. feminine signs 

-Subject plural pronouns, possessive pronouns, adjectives, physical descriptions

-Descriptive classifiers, non-manual markers 

-Sign names and cultural acceptance

-Occupations, Deaf people in different occupations


Module Three: Gallaudet Party of Two

-Seating arrangement, requests in a restaurant 

-DeafSpace - lighting, centerpieces 

-Classifiers for table layouts 

-Communicating with Deaf customers 

-Role-shifting 

-ASL literature 

-Directionality - bring, give 

-Mozzeria/Signing Starbucks 

-Numbers - cost - dollars and cents 

-Payments and opinions 

 

Module Four: Daily Life 

-Illness, injury, staying healthy 

-Degrees of intensity, directional indicators 

-Cochlear implants, hearing aids 

-Body part classifiers 

-Using negation 

-ADA/interpreters in medical 

-Numeral incorporation with lengths of time, frequency 

-Eye fatigue 

-Staying fit 

-Deaf Yoga Foundation, Deaf trainer Anne Reuss, Deaf athletes 

 

Module Five: Daily Life 

-Lending a hand at home 

-Directional verbs 

-Serving your community 

-ASL interpreters for natural disasters, Certified Deaf Interpreters 

-Weekend enjoyment 

-Deaf Slam and Deaf meetups 

-Conceptual accuracy- skating 

-Weekend getaway 

-Florida Deaf art show 


Module Six: Daily Life 

-Planning for vacation 

-ASL literature 

-Take (a trip) vs Take (it with you) 

-Cost- numbers over 100 

-International sign, ASL around the world 

-Real-world orientation 

-Fly to/fly from- Drive to/Drive from 

-Different dialects/ reginal signs 

-National Park interpreting services, Deaf Everest Climbers 

-Rhq WHAT

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