American Sign Language Lesson plans

Deaf Culture Deaf education Not a disability Deaf vs. deaf Struggles including poor schools and teachers No internal struggle, no learning deficit following deafness Not a disability Deaf vs. deaf Cochlear implants and the debate the follows

Factors of ASL Facial expressions Sign space-use it! Importance Other F.E. deaf people use ((small (oooh), large (cha), finally (pah))) Sign space-use it! Location can make all the difference EX: dry, ugly, summer Signs vary from region to region – like accents in English South, West, Midwest, Northeast, and Michigan

Factors of ASL cont. SEE (Signed Exact English) Home Signs ASL based Reflects English much more than ASL does Home Signs Found in culturally Deaf homes EX: My sign for pizza EX: Babysitting deaf girl- home sign for Oreo

Deaf culture signs Deaf Hearing Sign Language (noun) Sign (verb) Cochlear implant Oral

Basic Conversation WHAT WHERE HOW I My You Your(s) Hello/Goodbye How are you? -Good -Happy -Sick -Bad -Sad -Mad -Tired -Upset -Confused (Alphabet) What’s your name? My name is _____ (Numbers 1-20) How old are you? I am ____ years old

Basic Conversation cont. Where do you live? I live in _____ (America, Georgia, Atlanta) State, city/town, country END OF LESSON 1

Lesson 1 review Sign to me: Hello, my name is Makaila. I’m 17 years old. How are you? Where do you live? I’m very tired I live in Atlanta Georgia How old are you? Deaf Culture What is a Cochlear implant?

Basic Conversation cont. What’s up? What are you doing? Nice to meet you Fingerspell

Basic words Same Yes Different/but No Right Please Wrong Thanks NOT Very Really/real Much More Yes No Please Thanks You’re welcome Sorry

Simple Family words Girl Boy Man Woman Brother Sister Mom Dad Grandma Grandpa

Appearance (Nouns) Shirt Shorts Pants Dress Shoes Socks Hair Eyes

Appearance (Adjectives) Beautiful Handsome Ugly Tall Short Long Skinny Fat Big Small New Old Dirty Clean

Colors Red Orange O Yellow Y Green G Blue B Purple P Pink P Black Brown B White

Personality Adjectives Smart Stupid Funny Great Boring Shy

END OF LESSON 2 Time Time Year Day/Today Month Hour Week Minute What When Time Year Month Week Day/Today Hour Minute ( 3:00 ) Night Morning Afternoon END OF LESSON 2

Words to know Who Me What Mine When You Where Yours Why Us How We This That

Days of the week Monday M Tuesday T Wednesday W Thursday TH Friday F Saturday S Sunday

Seasons Summer Fall Winter Spring

Weather Weather Storm(y) Outside Cloud(y) Cold Lightning Warm Hot Rain Snow Sun Storm(y) Cloud(y) Lightning

More adjectives Better Fast Proud Brave First Quiet Dead Important Salty Dry Jealous Scary Early Last Silly Easy Late Slow Excited Loud Sweet Fancy Own Wet

Verbs! Ask Feel Run Begin Finish Say Break Grow See Call Have Think Close Help Understand Die Live Want Do Need Work Eat Play