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COURSE #:
COURSE NAME: ASL 2
UNIT/ORGANIZING
PRINCIPLE/STRAND:
My Daily Routine (MASL); Describing People (MASL)
Complaining, Making Suggestions, & Requests (SN2)
ESSENTIAL
QUESTION(S):
How do I sign about daily routines and activities? What are noun-verb pairs? How do I describe clothing? What is spatial
organization? What are turn-taking strategies and how do I use them? What is the sign language continuum? How do you describe
people’s physical appearances? How do I sign personality traits and characteristics? How do I improve my ASL narrative skills?
How do I sign health issues? How do I describe the natural world and environment?
BENCHMARKS
LEARNING TARGETS/SKILLS
Daily Routines, Spatial Organization, Grouping; Personal Hygiene;
Household Activities; Noun-verb pairs; Clothing; Describing Clothing; Sign
Language Continuum; Turn-taking & exchanging information; Classifier C
Describing the body, Sequence to describe physical characteristics, describing
ethnicity, describing hairstyles, Correct and Incorrect Cultural terms,
Describing Health, Describing topographical features as part of communicating
about the natural world; temporal aspect;
QUARTER: 1
PACING:
CONCEPTS/CONTENT
KEY TERMINOLOGY
Activity times, personal
morning and evening
routines; spatial
organization and
grouping about
routines; activities &
responsibilities around
the home; noun-verb
pairs and their uses;
communicate about
different types of
clothing; Differences
between ASL, Pidgin
Signed English (PSE)
and other manual
codes; Use of turntaking strategies;
Clothing item
descriptions; using
classifiers to describe
clothing, CL:4; classifier
showing plurality
Shoulder shifting; Pidgin
Signed English (PSE);
manual codes
“Deaf tend theirs”,
Deaf/Blind, Cochlear
implants, POW
plain verbs; inflecting
verbs; recurring verb;
continuous verb;
directional verbs;
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RESOURCES/ACTIVITIES
Master ASL DVD
Master ASL Workbook
Signing Naturally 2 Book
ASSESSMENTS
Dialogues
Expressive Test
Receptive Test
Written Test
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COURSE #:
UNIT/ORGANIZING
PRINCIPLE/STRAND:
ESSENTIAL
QUESTION(S):
BENCHMARKS
COURSE NAME: ASL 2
QUARTER: 2
PACING:
My Home & Community (MASL)
Locating things around the House (SN2)
How do I describe my home and community? How is money signed using the Money Spot and Dollar Twist? How do I describe
objects using specialization visualization? How do I give street directions? How do social changes affect the Deaf World? What are
non-manual signals and how do I use them?
LEARNING TARGETS/SKILLS
Housing; Places around the house; Using HAVE; Spatial Visualization;
Signer’s perspective; Community Locations, Classifier claw; Similarities
between the Deaf and hearing world; Individualistic vs. collective cultures;
Money; Dollar Twist; Money spot; Transportation; Classifier bent-v; classifiers
to tell locations;
CONCEPTS/CONTENT
KEY TERMINOLOGY
Communicates about
housing options; using
HAVE; appropriate use
of spatial visualization
when describing interior
buildings; Use of
cl:Claw for location;
relationship between
Deaf and hearing world;
individualistic vs.
collective cultures;
using dollar twist and
money spot;
communicate about
various transportation
methods; cl:bent-v for
transportation; NMS:
PO (post office); use of
TAKE
Money spot; HAVE;
spatial visualization;
CL:claw; dollar twist;
individualistic culture;
collectivist culture; many
mass; blow air
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RESOURCES/ACTIVITIES
Master ASL DVD
Master ASL Workbook
Signing Naturally 2 Book
Food-related activity
Animal related activity
ASSESSMENTS
Dialogues
Expressive Test
Receptive Test
Written Test
Midterm exam
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COURSE #:
COURSE NAME: ASL 2
UNIT/ORGANIZING
PRINCIPLE/STRAND:
Exchanging Personal Information: Life Events (SN2)
ESSENTIAL
QUESTION(S):
How do I tell about a life event using age, year, unexpected changes, or other events? How do I sign using ASL conjunctions? How
do I sign about family history? What are signs for countries? How do I sign dates and addresses?
BENCHMARKS
LEARNING TARGETS/SKILLS
WHEN clauses; Telling about life events; Nationality; Family history;
Conjunctions; Possessive forms; Dates and addresses;
QUARTER: 3
PACING:
CONCEPTS/CONTENT
KEY TERMINOLOGY
Using WHEN as a
conditional;
sequencing events;
Country vocabulary;
narrating family history;
Using conjunctions for
unexpected events;
Use of “’s”; dates and
addresses
NMS: CS, MMM; OO;
When clauses; narrative
transition pauses; ASL
Poetry
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RESOURCES/ACTIVITIES
Signing Naturally 2 Book & DVD
Family Tree Narrative
Travel Brochure/Tour Guide/Historical City Project
ASSESSMENTS
Dialogues
Expressive Test
Receptive Test
Written Test
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COURSE #:
COURSE NAME: ASL 2
UNIT/ORGANIZING
PRINCIPLE/STRAND:
Conversational ASL (MASL 10)
Describing and Identifying Things (SN 2 Unit 16)
ESSENTIAL
QUESTION(S):
How do I sign about occupations and fields of study? When do I use “become” and “to be”? How do I sign about food? How do I
sign about animals?
BENCHMARKS
LEARNING TARGETS/SKILLS
Occupations and field of study; using “to be”; discussing future plans; foods;
animals; descriptive classifiers
Describing patterns on objects and surfaces; Explaining word meaning;
Definition and description of objects; describing from different perspectives;
QUARTER: 4
PACING:
CONCEPTS/CONTENT
KEY TERMINOLOGY
Communicate about
jobs and employment;
apply agent marker as
needed; use BECOME
appropriately;
communicate about
foods; Communicate
about animals;
classifier usage for
physical descriptions
instrumental classifiers;
NMS: OO, MMM, CHA
Shapes; patterns;
textures; instrumental
classifiers; dominant &
non-dominant hands;
topic/comment
structure
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RESOURCES/ACTIVITIES
Signing Naturally 2 Book & DVD
NMS video clip
ASSESSMENTS
Dialogues
Expressive Test
Receptive Test
Written Test
Final Exam