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Numbers and Time
Days, Months and Calendar
Classes, Schedules and Supplies
ASL 1 > School Life
Numbers and Time
Communication
Person-to-Person Communication
- Ask and answer questions about age.
- Ask and answer questions about street addresses and telephone numbers.
- Ask and answer questions about time and scheduled activities.
Listening and Reading for Understanding
- Interpret signed communication about a time schedule (bus, train, class, movie listing, or TV guide).
Oral and Written Presentation
- Explain a schedule of activities.
- Present information about ages, phone numbers, addresses, and class schedules.
Cultures
Cultural Perspectives, Practices, and Products
- Discuss Deaf time schedules and cultural norms associated with activities.
Connections, Comparisons and Communities
Making Connections Through Language
- Do simple mathematical computations.
- Discuss temperatures.
Cultural and Linguistic Comparisons
- Compare time schedules and cultural norms associated with activities in the Deaf and hearing communities.
Communication Across Communities
- Discuss a time schedule, such as a transportation schedule, TV program schedule or movie listing.
Related Vocabulary and Linguistic Elements
- "It is" vs. "at"
- Ordinal numbers
- Listing and ranking
- Age and numbers
- Clock numbers
- Temporal aspect (time signs first)
School Life
Days, Months, and Calendar
Communication
Person-to-Person Communication
- Ask and answer questions about days of week, dates, and months.
- Ask and answer questions about birthdays and celebrations.
Listening and Reading for Understanding
- Identify dates of events and celebrations.
- Comprehend simple announcements that include dates.
Oral and Written Presentation
- Prepare and present a weekly activities calendar.
- Present important dates and celebrations.
Cultures
Cultural Perspectives, Practices, and Products
- Identify holidays and/or celebrations of significance to the Deaf community, such as Deaf Awareness Week and Deaf Way II.
Connections, Comparisons and Communities
Making Connections Through Language
- Make connections with historical events related to the Deaf community, such as the development of signed languages in France and the U.S. and the founding of deaf schools.
Cultural and Linguistic Comparisons
- Compare how events in the past, present and future are expressed in English and ASL.
Communication Across Communities
- Use community resources, such as the Gallaudet website, to identify important dates and cultural celebrations within the Deaf community.
Related Vocabulary and Linguistic Elements
- Phrases for asking and telling the date
- Temporal aspect
- Topic comment
- Non-manual markers
- Past, present and future with time markers
- Use of "finish" and "will"
ASL 1 > School Life
Classes, Schedules and Supplies
Communication
Person-to-Person Communication
- Ask and answer questions related to class schedules and school subjects.
- Ask and answer questions about school supplies, furnishings, and rooms.
- Ask and answer questions related to a typical school day and routine.
Listening and Reading for Understanding
- Understand simple instructions related to classroom commands or procedures, and basic computer technology.
- Comprehend a class schedule, opinions of classes, and locations in the school.
Oral and Written Presentation
- Prepare and present a class schedule.
- Describe a class schedule and necessary materials for various classes.
- Identify in which rooms classes are held.
Cultures
Cultural Perspectives, Practices, and Products
- Discuss educational settings for Deaf students, such as residential schools, mainstreamed classes, and self-contained classrooms.
- Discuss types of education programs for students who are deaf such as oral schools, cued speech schools and TC programs.
- Discuss the controversy related to Deaf and hearing issues and the educational settings of Deaf children.
Connections, Comparisons and Communities
Cultural and Linguistic Comparisons
- Compare the terms "Deaf" vs. "deaf".
- Compare classes, schedules and supplies in a Deaf school with those in a hearing school.
Communication Across Communities
- Present a school schedule of a student from a local Deaf school, such as the Kendall Demonstration Elementary School and the Model Secondary School for the Deaf.
Related Vocabulary and Linguistic Elements
- Vocabulary related to school schedules, rooms of the school and classroom objects
- Vocabulary related to telling time
- Personal pronouns
- Topic indicators
- Object-subject-verb order
- Question formation and interrogative expressions
- Negation
- Four + 1 parameters of a sign
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