Greetings and Introductions
Physical Descriptions and Personality Characteristics, Feelings, and Emotions
Family Members
Clothing and Colors
ASL 1 > Personal and Family Life
Greetings and Introductions
Communication
Person-to-Person Communication
- Use appropriate forms of address to peers and adults when making introductions.
- Use appropriate gestures and expressions of greeting and leave-taking.
- Ask and respond to simple questions about someone else’s identity and well-being.
- Use attention-getting techniques
Listening and Reading for Understanding
- Differentiate between informal and formal exchanges.
- Comprehend phrases related to a person’s state of well-being.
Oral and Written Presentation
- Demonstrate attention to accuracy of register in introducing self and expressing greetings.
- Present rehearsed and spontaneous greetings and introductions.
Cultures
Cultural Perspectives, Practices, and Products
- Recognize and distinguish between various culturally-authentic gestures and levels of formality of greeting and leave-taking.
- Demonstrate understanding of body awareness, touching, hugging, body language and greetings, including those used with text telephones (TTY), computers and technology advancements fro the Deaf and hard of hearing.
Connections, Comparisons and Communities
Making Connections Through Language
- Discuss the use of morning and evening greetings.
Cultural and Linguistic Comparisons
- Examine customs of greeting and leave-taking between the hearing and Deaf communities.
- Contrast the use of registers in ASL and English.
Communication Across Communities
- Recognize the importance of greetings in the Deaf community.
Related Vocabulary and Linguistic Elements
- Formal and informal expressions
ASL 1 > Personal and Family Life
Physical Descriptions and Personality Characteristics, Feelings, and Emotions
Communication
Person-to-Person Communication
- Use a variety of adjectives to ask and answer questions about the physical appearance of people and objects.
- Ask and answer questions about a description, mood or emotional state.
Listening and Reading for Understanding
- Comprehend descriptions of physical appearance, personality traits and emotions.
Oral and Written Presentation
- Describe physical and personality attributes using a variety of appropriate adjectives.
- Present descriptions, both rehearsed and spontaneous, of people and/or objects.
Cultures
Cultural Perspectives, Practices, and Products
- Discuss cultural generalizations and stereotyping based on physical appearance.
Connections, Comparisons and Communities
Making Connections Through Language
- Identify well-known people studied in other disciplines who are deaf or hard of hearing.
- Discuss the culturally-based conversational style of people in the Deaf community to be straight-forward when describing physical appearances.
Cultural and Linguistic Comparisons
- Compare adjective placement and agreement in English and ASL.
- Compare the tendency of the Deaf community to be straight-forward when describing physical appearances.
Communication Across Communities
- Describe well-known people who are deaf or hard of hearing.
Related Vocabulary and Linguistic Elements
- Descriptive adjectives
- Agreement and placement of adjectives
- Question and answer formation
- Object-subject-verb syntax
- Conversation regulators (e.g. You know? and Oh, I see.)
ASL 1 > Personal and Family Life
Family Members
Communication
Person-to-Person Communication
- Ask and answer questions pertaining to family members and relationships, including pets.
Listening and Reading for Understanding
- Identify family members and relationships based on signed descriptions.
Oral and Written Presentation
- Describe family relationships.
- Describe family members and pets.
Cultures
Cultural Perspectives, Practices, and Products
- Explain the importance of deaf connections within the family structure and community.
Connections, Comparisons and Communities
Making Connections Through Language
- Compare the role of the extended Deaf family.
Cultural and Linguistic Comparisons
- Compare and contrast family interactions in Deaf and hearing cultures.
- Contrast ways to express possession.
Communication Across Communities
- Use print and Internet resources to access information about Deaf culture related to families.
Related Vocabulary and Linguistic Elements
- Pet vocabulary
- Possessive adjectives
- Descriptive adjectives
- Pronouns (possessive and singular)
- Listing
- Contrastive structure
- Age and numbers
- Spatial placement
ASL 1 > Personal and Family Life
Clothing and Colors
Communication
Person-to-Person Communication
- Ask and answer questions pertaining to clothing and colors.
- Ask and answer questions to elicit a description of clothing and colors.
Listening and Reading for Understanding
- Identify clothing and colors based on signed descriptions.
Oral and Written Presentation
- Use descriptive adjectives and articles to describe clothing.
Cultures
Cultural Perspectives, Practices, and Products
- Discuss the use of dark-colored clothing to make the signer's communication easier to see.
Connections, Comparisons and Communities
Making Connections Through Language
- Discuss the use of color (e.g., in clothing, art, architecture).
Cultural and Linguistic Comparisons
- Discuss adjective placement and agreement.
- Discuss descriptive classifiers (DCL).
- Compare ways of expressing possession (e.g. 's in English).
Communication Across Communities
- Describe clothing available on the Internet and through catalogues and/or advertisements.
Related Vocabulary and Linguistic Elements
- Colors and other descriptive adjectives
- Adjective agreement and placement
- Descriptive classifiers
- Contrastive structure
- Listing structure
- Appropriate non-manual markers for classifiers
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