ASL 1
FINAL PRESENTATION
May 2012
Due Date and Time: ___________________________________
You will be giving a final presentation at a scheduled date, using a power point or poster filled with
pictures, for minimum of 3 minutes or the maximum of 5 minutes. Since September you have been
learning new signs everyday covered in Master ASL! Unit 1 - 5. You will demonstrate the ability to sign
fluently and clearly with correct ASL grammar structure, sign production, and appropriate non-manual
signals, to be easily understood by a Deaf person.
What you need to avoid during your final presentation:
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No voicing during your final presentation
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Throw out the English word order
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Avoid fingerspelling, except for people's names and places
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Avoid mouthing excessively
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Avoid pausing to extend the time
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No chewing gum
The final presentation is worth 200 points.
Allow plenty of time to work on your assignment.
Practice signing every day with a classmate or in front of your mirror.
Use the target language (ASL) and vocabulary words you have learned throughout the year.
Use power point or make a poster- either should include pictures/visual aspects relevant to your
speech. NOTE: VISUAL SHOULD BE COLORFUL, NEAT, AND ATTRACTIVE, AND
PRESENTATIONS MAY BE RECORDED.
Use only 10 pictures/slides on your poster or in your power point presentation—names, words &
numbers are NOT allowed. No note cards or written manuscripts are to be used during your
presentations; instead, use the pictures from your power point/poster to help guide you through your
presentation.
The presentation may be recorded as a flip video for further evaluation by the teacher; the student
may also include the assessment in their portfolio.
This final application project will be evaluated based on the following criteria:
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Content
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Language
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Delivery
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Visual Aid
The following topics have been studied during your first year of ASL. You may arrange your material
in any order with which you are comfortable. You will need to demonstrate clear sign production and
correct ASL grammar structure, including facial expressions and non-manual markers at a normal
signing space.
Start working on your final presentation now, as it takes time to practice and feel confident in
yourself. Look through the Master ASL! units and review what you have learned this year in order to
decide how you want to share your final presentation. Try to cover as much of what you have learned
this year in your final presentation as you can! Be creative and make your presentation interesting and
well understood.
Your presentation includes:
Functional Components:
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Introducing yourself:
Whether Deaf or hearing
First and last name
How well you learn to sign
Who teacher is and where you learn
Where you born, grow up and reside (live now)
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Describing your family:
family members
marital status
hearing or deaf
age
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Favorite:
Place to visit and reason
Season and reason
Grammatical Components:
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Facial Expressions (non-manual signals)
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Negation: NOT, NO, NONE
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Number signs
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Eye gaze, pauses, and sign order correctly
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Pronouns: personal (my), plural, possessives
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Contrastive structure (shoulder shifting)
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Topic-comment structure (like tweeting)
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Ordering (1-5 etc)
**If you don’t show up at your scheduled time you will fail your final,
but there is an opportunity to make up your Final Presentation on June
17th, earning no better than a D+.