1. Student Booklet NAME: ____________________________________
Master ASL Unit Six
Student Booklet
NAME: ____________________________________

2. Precision and the Five Parameters
Signs have five parts:
Handshape
I……………………...vs. …………….MY
Palm Orientation
NAME …… vs. …………….CHAIR
Location
MOTHER …………....vs. ……………FATHER
Movement
SNOW……………..…vs. ……………RAIN
Non-Manual Signals (facial expression)
I UNDERSTAND ……vs. …………...I DON’T UNDERSTAND

3. Signing about sports
New vocabulary

5. Signing about sports (pg 213)
During: Use during to talk about non-specific time when something occurs. During is used much the same way as ‘in’ and ‘on’ are used in English to talk about events
All year, year round During, In on (time)
To play Team
Tend to, usually

8. Rugby Biathlon Ping Pong (FS or Sign) Others?

9. What are the highlights of the article?
Read pg. 219
The football huddle
What are the highlights of the article?
Deaf culture Note

10. Did you know? Equal Through Sports: The Deaf Olympics Read pg. 217
Be prepared to answer the following questions:
How often are the Deaf Olympics?
When did the Deaf Olympics begin?
What does the Deaf Olympics offer Deaf Athletes?
How are the games modified?
What would be so great about this event if you were Deaf?

11. Nms alert!!!! The sign finish is ALWAYS accompanied by a specific NMS:
Move your lips as if saying “fish”

12. Asking Have you… Read pg 220 Key Concepts: To have (possessive)
To experience (to do something)
To finish (sign with to experience)

13. Other Activities

14. Expression Corner

15. Deaf Arts, literature and culture

16. Classifiers and storytelling

19. Deaf culture minute Hearing Poetry vs. Deaf Poetry
Did you notice the difference between the two different signs for poetry?
Deaf poets felt the general (hearing) sign for poetry did not fully capture the depth of expression that is part of ASL poetry.
Eventually the sign express myself/let it out became known as ASL Poetry.
Deaf culture minute
Hearing Poetry vs. Deaf Poetry

20. The Storytelling competition
The sign come on is an informal way to sign to join or come over here. Use this sign to say come on! to encourage somebody to hurry up.

21. classifiers

23. ASL Up Close Past, Present & Future: The ASL Tenses Read pg. 231
Take notes
What are:
Tense Markers
ASL Timeline
What does it mean if there are no tense markers?
Where are tense markers located?
Past, Present & Future:
The ASL Tenses

24. I want to know How do tense markers work?
Notice the parameter change between yesterday and tomorrow?
Both begin at the same location (present tense area).
Final locations differ:
Yesterday moves backwards to the past area
Tomorrow moves forward to the future area
NOTE:
Once a tense is formed you do not have to keep adding a tense marker because the context is clear.
I want to know
How do tense markers work?

25. The past

26. Accent steps
The signs last month, last week and last year can be interpreted as “a month ago,” “a week ago,” and “a year ago.”
Sign used to say “when I was…..”

27. Vocabulary
Dummy Hoy

28. Prepare and present Expressive Practice
Describe an event or activity that occurred in the past in a minimum of five ASL sentences. Some ideas are provided.
Last weekend’s activities
An event from your childhood
An event that happened a year ago
Expressive Practice
Prepare and present

29. The future Distant future In a few days Next week Next year Soon
Will, future, it will be
Soon x2

30. Accent steps
Phrases like “next Tuesday” or “next weekend” are signed like this:

31. Rule of 9 The Rule of 9 is an important feature of ASL Grammar
review
The Rule of 9 is an important feature of ASL Grammar
Rule of 9: Combines the base meaning of a sign with a specific length of time to form a new meaning

32. Duration

33. Unit six Expressive Activity
Pg 243 Homework Exercise 7
Create a short story using a min of 6 ASL sentences.
Develop an ASL narrative that uses the past, present, and future tenses.
Suggest topic: Something you did as a child, something you do now, and something you want to do in the future.
Include the vocabulary you have learned so far. Make sure to include NMS (non manual signals) and Facial Expression.
Use your Unit Six Review Booklet to help you with your story.
Evaluation:
Are you using ASL sentence structure (topic first, then comment)?
Do you have proper NMS and Facial Expression?
Are you using the Tense Markers properly?
Are you signing your signs properly?
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34. Journal Activity Pg 244 Journal Activities 2
Answer in full sentences with a deep and thoughtful response
Hand in