1. ASL 2 Semester 1 Final Exam FORMAT & Study Guide (120 Assessment Points/20% of semester grade)
Expressive portion (20 points)
35 vocab words/phrases (35 points)
1 video clip(10 points)
25 handshapes (25 points)
Multiple Choice questions from bell work, book work & classroom discussion (30 Points)

2. What happened on Broadway in May 1942?
Who signed the charter for Gallaudet University to be opened?
Abraham Lincoln
The Gallaudet Dramatics club preformed

3. What was the result of the ICED conference in Milan, Italy?
Sign language was banned for deaf children’s education
When giving directions & describing a turn, do you shift your perspective or keep your previously stated perspective?
Shift your perspective

4. Gallaudet University is the only LIBERAL ARTS University in the world
Gallaudet University is the only LIBERAL ARTS University in the world. Who was the first Deaf president of Gallaudet University? I. King Jordan

5. What year was the ASL stamp released?
What was a key factor in the United States Post Office creating Deaf/ASL themed stamps?
The American postal workers union lobbied for the stamps
1993

6. What did the Americans with disabilities act do?
What did the Telecommunications Accessibility Enhancement Act do?
Protected anyone with a disability from discrimination based on their disability
Ensured national telecommunications were made available to everyone

7. What did the television Decoder circuity act do?
Required TVs bigger than 13 inches have a chip for closed captioning
A rhetorical question in asl is similar to a wh-question in structure but what component is always different in the sentence structure?
NMS/NMM

8. When was ASL recognized as an official language?
What does DPN stand for?
The 1960s
Deaf President NOw

9. What was alexander graham bell dedicated to before the invention of t he telephone?
Inventing ways to teach Deaf people speech & lip reading
To sign any number of months that is less than 10 months, the number you sign is incorporated into the sign.

10. What is Nathie Marbury most famously known for?
When was the protest at Gallaudet university?
1988
Being a storyteller
Being a poet
Being an educator
Being a role model for the Black Deaf Community

11. Why did everyone use sign language at Martha’s vineyard?
Everyone there was Deaf

12. What percentage of Deaf children have hearing parents?
What is an asl classifier?
A language tool that provides an effective description of an environment
Over 90%

13. Language is a complex communication system governed by the culture of its users. Besides just practicing the language, you need prolonged exposure with people that speak the language.

14. When giving directions to a place, describe the area with:
When receiving directions, whose perspective should you take?
A street view
The Signer’s

15. What are the three main views of deafness?
What year was Gallaudet university signed into existence?
Medical
Social
Cultural-linguistic
1864

16. In the medical approach, many deaf children struggle with fluency in English & asl. The cultural-linguistic view focuses on recognizing Deaf people are a minority culture group with their own natural language?

17. True or false?
Every word in the English language has a sign that translates into American sign language.