Cell phones

According to the syllabus, cell phones are not allowed in

class except when permitted by teacher.

Cell phones need to be in your bags not on your desks.

If you are caught using your cell phone during class, it is

an automatic detention.

ASL 2
January 8, 2015

Extra Credit sign up before Jan 9

This is the only extra credit opportunity that I will offering this semester.

ASL Night is January 27th (Time to be determined)

If you perform in the ASL night show, you will be awarded 100 points of extra
credit.

If you are interested please speak with 3rd Year ASL students they are the
ones who are planning this event.

Phenix

Allison

Andrew

Kylie

Alyssa

Deaf Events

Friday Jan 9, Starbucks

Jan 15, 6pm Heritage High School Signing Idol ($5)

Jan 27, 5:30 pm, MVHS ASL Night ($3, tickets on sale now)

Todays Agenda

Dialogue minutes

More Glossing tips

Song approval please have your song approved by Friday

Rubric of what is required for your song

Dialogue minutes

This is a graded activity

First person to go is the person closest to the window.

You will need to sign for the full minute. Failure to sign for the whole
minute, not engaging with your partner, or talking/whispering during this
activity will result in loss of points.

When the minute is up, the person closest to the door will sign for one
minute.

We will do this several rounds

I will use a timer to let you know when to switch or move.

Topics are on the next slide.

Dialogue minutes
If

I could pick the theme song for my life it

would be and why

If

I was a cartoon character, I would

beand why

If

I could teleport to anywhere in the

world, I would go to and 5 things I would
do before I teleported home.

Glossing

You should have these notes from last year. Everyone was
required to write out these notes and keep them in your
language section of your binder.

IF you dont have a copy of these notes, make a copy now

or you can retrieve them from my pick up folder.

I WILL NOT HELP WITH GLOSSING UNLESS YOU HAVE

THESE

How to gloss

Read through the lyrics Do you see the visual story?

Can you see the story?

Do you know what it means?

FIND THE MEANING/THEMEwrite it on top of your lyrics.

Reminder

ASL gloss is always written in all CAPS

All in present tense

No conjunctions (and, or, the, etc)

Refer to your notes

Some words to cross out.

Am

By

Was

Of

At

That

Were

Are

Because/cause It
/cuz
Was

And

In

Just

The

So

Be

Out

Is

To

on

Break down of points for Song

Pick appropriate song = 5 points (cannot perform song

until approved)

Printed/written lyrics = 10 points

Double

spaced!

Solo song gloss finalized = 25 points

Practice

Music edited/cropped = 10 points (depends on amount of

performers, if music doesnt need to be edited or cropped
due to time constraints will add 5 points to the first 2
bullets)

Solo presentation/recorded performance = 50 points

Final Exam
Your

final will be in 2 parts

You

will have a paper exam

You

will perform a song - solo

Final Exam Song

We wont work on this everyday in class.

But when I tell you that you can work on your

song, you are allowed to discuss quietly with your
classmates.

Your song will need to be approved before you can

work on it.

Not all Deaf people like music

Must have visual stories otherwise it is pointless

Deaf people love visual stories

Examples:

Chinese

Thousand Hands

Treadmill

song

Your song

FULLY GLOSSED

ASL

EMOTIONS

EXPRESSIVE

VISUAL STORY

Any Song

Has to be school appropriate:

No violence

No profanity

No alcohol/drugs/sex

No misogyny (belittle men/women)

Examples of solo performance

Just

the way you are Bruno Mars

Fireflies
Happy

Owl City

Pharrell Williams (not a solo

performance but good ASL)

More examples

Grenade Bruno Mars

Bohemian Rhapsody - Queen

Presentation

You can either film yourself or present in front of class for full credit.

Final exam = song rubric

Pick appropriate song = 5 points

Print/typed or written lyrics = 10 points

Double

spaced

Solon song gloss finalized = 25 points

Practice!!

Music edited/cropped = 10 points (in case we

dont have time for everyone to perform)

Solo presentation (2min minimum) = 50 points

Presentations remaining last day to

present

2nd period

4th period

Abbie

Emily Bricker

Ryan

Cheyanne

Maddie H

Daisy

Megan

Nicole

Allison

Angel

Elsie

Caitlyn

Kristen

Kody

State Project Presentation

New style of presentations

We will be doing this conference style

You will create a sign for your state and use iPad
to show your PowerPoint

Each day 5-6 people will set up a booth

The rest of class will split up into groups of 3

You will have a sheet with you when you visit each
booth You will travel with your group and visit
all booths

State Project Presentation Continued

Presentation will be done in ASL, Q+A will be in

ASL. You will have 2 questions each to ask and you
will need to formulate a third question on your own.

I/or TA will be recording the whole classroom, I will

be looking for proper use of ASL and formulation of
the questions.

After you have toured all the booths with your group,
return to your desk, read over your notes and
consider what are the similarities and differences you
learned about. We will discuss this in class.

After Presentations

5 minutes

Read over your notes.

Answer on paper What are the similarities and

differences between all the states that I visited
today?

Group Discussion - ASL

How would each of those states look in another country?

South America

Europe

Africa

Australia

China

Japan

Middle East