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ASL

Daily Routine

Rooms of the House and Household Chores

Food

Childhood Experiences


ASL 2 > Home Life

Daily Routine

Communication

Person-to-Person Communication

  • Ask and answer questions about daily routines in the home.
  • Exchange information about family routines in the home.

Understanding Signed Language

  • Identify daily routines based on signed description.

Producing Signed Language

  • Describe daily routines.
  • Describe family members in relation to daily routines.

Cultures

Cultural Perspectives, Practices and Products

  • Discuss typical daily routines and home life, including devices for the deaf (e.g. vibrating alarm clocks, TTY, etc.).
  • Discuss the importance of family in daily routines.

Connections, Comparisons, and Communities

Making Connections Through Language

  • Explore differences in health and fitness practices between hearing teenagers and deaf teenagers.

Cultural and Linguistic Comparisons

  • Compare daily routines of typical hearing teenagers and Deaf teenagers.

Communication Across Communities

  • Access information about daily routines of individuals in the Deaf community from print and internet resources, journal entries, magazine articles, etc.

Related Vocabulary and Linguistic Elements

  • Vocabulary related to personal care
  • Vocabulary for parts of the body
  • Adverbs of frequency
  • Time and time expressions
  • Sequencing stories

ASL 2 > Home Life

Rooms of the House and Household Chores

Communication

Person-to-Person Communication

  • Ask and answer questions about rooms of the house, furnishings, and chores.
  • Discuss the home including its rooms, furniture, and household objects.

Understanding Signed Language

  • Identify the rooms of the house and/or furniture based on signed description.
  • Comprehend comments and commands about daily chores and the house.
  • Understand the difference between two-dimensional and three-dimensional classifiers when discussing rooms, furniture, and household objects.

Producing Signed Language

  • Describe the home, including its rooms, furniture, and household objects.
  • Describe family members in relation to daily chores.
  • Describe household responsibilities for self and/or family members.

Cultures

Cultural Perspectives, Practices and Products

  • Discuss different styles of houses and living arrangements using appropriate classifiers.

Connections, Comparisons, and Communities

Cultural and Linguistic Comparisons

  • Compare household responsibilities of typical hearing teenagers and Deaf teenagers.
  • Compare the use of reference points to describe spatial relationships in ASL with how spatial relationships are expressed in English.

Communication Across Communities

  • Investigate the set-up of a Deaf home, including devices for the deaf and hard of hearing.

Related Vocabulary and Linguistic Elements

  • Vocabulary related to furniture and furnishings
  • Affirmative and negative commands
  • Sequencing vocabulary
  • Prepositions of location/classifiers
  • Two-dimensional and three-dimensional classifiers
  • Adverbs of frequency
  • Reference points to describe spatial relationships

ASL 2 > Home Life

Food

Communication

Person-to-Person Communication

  • Ask and answer questions related to food and shopping for food.
  • Ask and answer questions about food at a celebration.
  • Order and take an order for a meal in a variety of dining situations.
  • Exchange opinions about food.

Understanding Signed Language

  • Identify foods based on signed descriptions.
  • Understand comments and commands about foods and/or celebrations.
  • Identify foods based on visual aids.

Producing Signed Language

  • Describe foods and/or shopping for food.
  • Describe foods and menus in relation to celebrations.
  • Describe a menu or recipe.

Cultures

Cultural Perspectives, Practices and Products

  • Discuss Deaf manners as related to food and meals.

Connections, Comparisons, and Communities

Cultural and Linguistic Comparisons

  • Compare behaviors and manners related to food and meals in the Deaf and hearing communities.

Related Vocabulary and Linguistic Elements

  • Vocabulary related to food and table settings
  • Vocabulary related to opinions about food
  • Direct and indirect objects
  • Courtesy expressions
  • Affirmative and negative commands

ASL 2 > Home Life

Childhood Experiences

Communication

Person-to-Person Communication

  • Ask and answer questions about childhood experiences.

Understanding Signed Language

  • Understand signed communication about a childhood experience.

Producing Signed Language

  • Produce presentations about childhood experiences.

Cultures

Cultural Perspectives, Practices and Products

  • Discuss childhood experiences of famous Deaf individuals.

Connections, Comparisons, and Communities

Communication Across Communities

  • Discuss handshape poetry as related to childhood experiences and stories.

Related Vocabulary and Linguistic Elements

  • Time clauses
  • "When" clauses
  • Conjunctions and transitions
  • Temporal aspect
  • Non-manual makers with time
  • Sequencing of events
  • Contrastive structure
  • Possessive (using 's)
  • Descriptive classifiers

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August 26, 2008


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