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High American Sign Language 1

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Pre Requisites

None

Description

Get ready to jump-start your journey through Deaf culture exploring the worlds of EARth and EYEth. You’ll dive headfirst into this visual language by learning the basic building blocks of communication. You’ll master the art of effortlessly navigating conversations about family, school, celebrations, food and restaurants, entertainment, and traveling. You’ll make stops along the way, exploring the roots and traditions of Deaf culture. So, buckle up—your journey awaits! 

All ASL courses require live video conferencing for real-time discussion-based assessments with instructors and contain assignments that require students to record presentational videos. 

Follow the link below for the Department of Education description for this course: https://www.cpalms.org/PreviewCourse/Preview/24136

 

Module One: Daily Life

-Dominant vs. Non-dominant Hand 

-Alphabet and Numbers 

-Fingerspelling 

-History of ASL 

-Parameters 

-Attention-getting 

-Yes/No and WH Questions 

-Numbers 0–20 

-Rule of 9 

-Introductions and Greetings 

 

Module 2: Live and Learn

-Educational Programs for Deaf and Hard-of-hearing 

-DeafSpace 

-Asking for Clarification 

-Oralism 

-Pronouns 

-Past/Present/Future 

-Contrastive Structure 

-Numbers 20–65

-School and Home 

 

Module 3: Good Eats

-Topic-Comment Structure 

-Shoulder Shifting 

-Listing Technique 

-ASL Literature 

-Preferences 

-Whole Dollars 

-Numbers 65–100

-Breakfast, Lunch, and Dinner 

 

Module 4: A Family Affair

-Masculine vs. Feminine Signs

-Contrastive Structure

-Name Signs

-Indexing and Order of Descriptions

-Time-Topic-Comment

-Numeral Incorporation

-Months

-Family and Descriptions

 

Module 5: Around the House

-Deaf Home

-Signer’s Perspective

-Classifiers vs. Handshapes

-Locative Classifiers

 Before/After

-Preferences

-Rooms and Furniture

 

Module 6: Around Town

-Rhetorical Questions

-Deaf Communities

-Locative Classifiers

-Silent Dinners and Deaf Standard Time

-Real World Orientation

-Near/Far

-Directions

-Around Town and Transportation

Required: device of choice to record video (for example: webcam or smartphone or tablet with video), paper, pen or pencil

Optional: microphone, printer, speakers or headset

 

Besides engaging students in challenging curriculum, the course guides students to reflect on their learning and evaluate their progress through a variety of assessments. Assessments can be in the form of practice lessons, multiple choice questions, writing assignments, projects, research papers, oral assessments, and discussions. This course will use the state-approved grading scale. Each course contains a mandatory final exam or culminating project that will be weighted at 20% of the student’s overall grade.***

***Proctored exams can be requested by FLVS at any time and for any reason in an effort to ensure academic integrity. When taking the exam to assess a student’s integrity, the exam must be passed with at least a 59.5% in order to earn credit for the course.