Life Events and Countries Unit 13 Based on Signing Naturally, Unit 15 Unit 13

Unit 13 Major Goals Discuss life events and nationalities Use transitions between events in narratives Use dependent clauses (when clauses) Use classifiers to describe events Unit 13

Link to signs for countries: http://www.aslresource.net/index.html Countries of the world Unit 13

Europe Unit 13

Africa Unit 13

Middle East and Asia Unit 13

Australia and Oceania Unit 13

South America Unit 13

Central America and Caribbean Unit 13

North America Unit 13

vocabulary Other narrative signs Unit 13

From Unit 13

Itself Unit 13

Around (time) Unit 13

Lie Unit 13

Fiction/fictional, make-up Unit 13

Describing Family History Unit 13

Describing Mixed Nationality mixed heritage strong full mixed half 100% Unit 13

Narrative Sequence Tell who Tell background Tell about changes Tell about move W F G G W W ? E A A E E E A Family Tree Diagram A Unit 13

Why People Migrate Economic Reasons Disasters Persecution War Family Reasons Unit 13

Conjunctions – Connecting Ideas Unexpected circumstances / Compare/contrast, shoulder shifting, use of sign space is used along with on of the following: wrong hit happen but, however finish/then which? Unit 13

Family Background Narrative Discuss why your family and relatives moved. Include: Mother’s and father’s side Use pronouns to refer to a grandparent or great-grandparent Tell two countries, if possible (ok to invent) Use at least one of these signs: strong, 100%, full, ½, cross, or mix Use at least one conjunction that shows an unexpected event : wrong, hit, happen Tell at least one person’s reason for moving Unit 13

Recording and sending video through email. Follow this process to get a grade on family background narrative: Use webcams to videotape a draft of yourself signing about your family history Use Windows Moviemaker to compress your video file down to 20 MB or less if you can Name the file family reasons_yourname Email video to me at (NEW EMAIL!) westlandasl@gmail.com Unit 13

tumblr.com Open tumblr.com account if you have turned in a signed permission slip Use this convention to name your URL for this project: chmsaslfirstname.tumblr.com Name your page ASL Share Use the “video” icon at the top of your ASL Share dashboard page to open a video upload prompt page and upload your video. Unit 13

Family Background Narrative Rubric Names: 2 3 4 5 3 or more elements missing 2 elements missing 1 element missing All elements present Non Manual Signals Few or no NMS Some correct NMS Many correct NMS NMS present throughout with correct timing Sign Production (HOLM) 3 or more incorrect signs 2 incorrect signs 1 incorrect sign All signs produced correctly Fluency / Smoothness of signing Very halting, many unnatural pauses Somewhat halting, several unnatural pauses Mostly smooth, little hesitancy No hesitancy, very smooth Unit 12

Family Background Narrative Rubric Family BG Narrative Rubric Name: 2 3 4 5 *Mother’s and father’s side *Use pronouns to refer to a grandparent or great-grandparent *Two countries, if possible (ok to invent) *At least one : strong, 100%, full, ½, cross, or mix *At least one reason for moving *At least one conjunction : wrong, hit, happen 3 or more elements missing 2 elements missing 1 element missing All elements present Non Manual Signals *Shoulder shift (mom/dad) *Eye gaze (family tree) *Eyebrows up (topic/comm) Few or no NMS Some correct NMS Many correct NMS NMS present throughout with correct timing Sign Production (HOLM) 3 or more incorrect signs 2 incorrect signs 1 incorrect sign All signs produced correctly Fluency / Smoothness of signing Very halting, many unnatural pauses Somewhat halting, several unnatural pauses Mostly smooth, little hesitancy No hesitancy, very smooth Unit 12

vocabulary Life Events Unit 13

Grow-up, be-raised Unit 13

Go-through-school-grades Unit 13

Graduate Unit 13

Fall-in-love Unit 13

Conceive, become-pregnant Unit 13

Move-to Unit 13

Offer (job offer) Unit 13

Promote, promotion Unit 13

Transfer (different job) Unit 13

Principal Unit 13

Car accident Unit 13

Retire Unit 13

Settle-down Unit 13

Put-down-roots, settle-down Unit 13

Died, dead Unit 13

Laid-off (work) Unit 13

Burn-down Unit 13

Drop-out, quit (school) Unit 13

Take (test) Unit 13

Pass Unit 13

Fail Unit 13

License Unit 13

Escape Unit 13

Mess-up, chaos Unit 13

Soldier Unit 13

Summon Unit 13

Kill Unit 13

War Unit 13

Watch “Jose’s Life Story”, (SN VHS, Unit 15) Watch “Jose’s Life Story”, (SN VHS, Unit 15). Identify the parts of the narrative, and summarize in English. Use the picture sequence to help you follow the narrative. Introduction (born and raised in…?) _______________________________ Main Body (name 3 major events and when they happened) ________________________________ Closing (current situation or future plans) Unit 13

“Jose’s Life Story” picture sequence Unit 13

Vocabulary & Grammar Time Transitions Unit 13

Pauses This is the most common type of transition. At the end of an event nod your head slightly, pause your signing, then raise your head to signal the beginning of the next event. SignWriting here Unit 13

Dependent or “when” clauses This transition happens at the beginning of a sentence and explains when an event happened. This is a time/topic-comment structure, so the eyebrows raise and the head nods downward for the “when” portion, then the eyebrows flatten and head raises during the event explanation. Use this transition to tell about the following: Age (When I was 5, I started school.) Preceding event (After graduation, I started working) Year of event (In 1985, he passed away) Unit 13

Time signs indicating a period of time Use NMS with the later-on sign to show the relative amount of time passed. Later-on, some-time-later Short time later Medium time later Long time later Unit 13

Up-until-now, since Unit 13

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Show of Hands – p. 2 Unit 13

It’s A Small World – p.2 Unit 13