ASL 1 (Blocks 3 & 4)

Signing Naturally Unit 2

Lesson 2.11 Negotiating a Signing Environment

Lesson 2.12 Asking What is the Sign

Standards Addressed

ASL1.IP1 Students exchange simple information in the target language, utilizing cultural references where appropriate. Students will: 

F. Ask for clarification (e.g., “what,” again, understand). 

I. Ask questions and provide responses based suggested topics (e.g., yes/no and wh- questions). 

J. Use sequenced information meaningfully (e.g., telling time, days of the week, months, seasons, expressive fingerspelling, numbers 0 -100). 

ASL1.IP2 Students demonstrate skills necessary to sustain exchanges in the target language. Students will: 

A. Initiate, participate in, and close a brief exchange (e.g., turn taking and dialogue). 

B. Demonstrates SLPI Novice + to Survival or ASLPI Level 1 to 2 proficiency. 

ASL1.CCC2 Students demonstrate an understanding of the significance of culture through comparisons between the culture studied and the students’ own culture. Students will: 

1. Compare patterns of behavior and interaction in the students’ own culture with those of the target culture (e.g., phone/TV access; ring signalers, visual noise; proxemics; eye contact; driving; use of interpreters). 

ASL1.INT2 Students will comprehend signed and non-manual markers to understand simple messages in the target language.

Learning Targets

• I will demonstrate culturally-appropriate ways to pass through people signing in a conversation and/or crowds of people conversing in signs. 

• I will use different strategies to ask for a sign.

• I can point, draw picture, list items in category, use opposites, describe/act out, and ask for the sign

• I will respond in various ways to a person’s request for a sign.

• I will give the sign, respond that I don’t know, forgotten, think I know and provide the sign, or ask for clarification.

Introduction & Connection

Daily 10: That Deaf Guy cartoons w/Q&A, discussion

Selected Deaf News on D-Pan website w/Q&A, discussion

Direct Instruction 

Practice passing through signed conversations by lowering one’s head and walking through. 

Practice passing between groups of people conversing in signs by gently pressing shoulder & moving aside to pass. 

Sign “Excuse me” when passing through/around. 

Practice asking for signs using the various strategies listed above.

Practice responses using those listed above.

See Google Classroom for PowerPoints & lesson materials/videos.