ASL III: Intermediate ASL

Fall 2016: 8/29/16 through 12/15/16

Tuesdays & Thursdays
Class: 9:00 am - 10:30am in C112
Lab: 10:30am - 11:00am in C138

Instructors: MASLED Cohort 1 E-mail Address: MASLED2106@gallaudet.edu

Phone Number: (801) 432-7437 Office Hours: 8:00am - 5:00 pm

Course Description
This course expand ASL skills learned from American Sign Language (ASL) I. Students will
learn intermediate level of a targeted core of vocabulary and grammatical features in ASL, such
as, conditional sentence and temporal aspects via dialogues and narratives. The basic structure of
narrative will be introduced in this level. The topics will focus on description of health ailments,
general surroundings, hobbies and interests, and spending money. Students will learn and discuss
a few controversial issues in the Deaf Culture and Deaf Community.

Prerequisite: ASL II with a grade of "B" or better, or equivalent and permission of program
coordinator.

Required Texts

ASL at Work: Student Text

Newell, W., Sanders, C., Holcomb, B., Holcomb, S. K., Caccamise, F., &
Peterson, R. (2010). ASL at Work: Student Handbook and DVD. San
Diego, CA: DawnSignPress.
GoReact - (n.d.). Retrieved July 18, 2016, from http://www.goreact.com/
To submit your video assignments, www.goreact.com will be used. This software code can be
obtained at the bookstore. The instructor will provide you with the registration link to connect to
the course folder in GoReact.

Sign On - Connect. (n.d.).

Retrieved July 18, 2016,
from http://www.signoncpr.com/

This system gives the ASL Learner access to Deaf ASL Experts who want to help improve the
usage of ASL. Students are required to purchase five sessions for this course. Please register at
https://www.signoncpr.com/howitworks/

Kahoot!. (n.d.). Retrieved July 18, 2016, from https://kahoot.it/

We will use Kahoot for our classroom/lab. The instructions on how to use Kahoot can be found at
this website: https://getkahoot.com/how-it-works

Reading / Resources List and Instructional Tools

Kusters, A. (2009). Deaf Utopias? Reviewing the Sociocultural Literature on the World's
 Martha's Vineyard Situations Journal of Deaf Studies and Deaf Education, 15(1), 3-
16. doi:10.1093/deafed/enp026

Manriquez, P. (2015, February 23). White House staffer Leah Katz-Hernandez is a

pioneer on the reception desk. Retrieved July 18, 2016, from
http://latino.foxnews.com/latino/politics/2015/02/23/white-house-staffer-leah-katz-
hernandez-is-pioneer-on-reception-desk/

Sign Enhancers. Medical related signs YouTube:

S. (2011). Learn ASL (sign language): Medical signs. Retrieved July 18, 2016,
from https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6Ttmp4XBNGY

Voice of America website/video: Global Deaf Entrepreneurs:

http://www.voanews.com/media/video/deaf-entrepreneurs-opening-business-/3173643.html

Electronic Resources
American Sign Language.
ASL. (n.d.). Retrieved July 18, 2016, from http://www.lifeprint.com/

ASL Inside!
ASL Inside!, Hand Powered. (n.d.). Retrieved July 18, 2016, from http://www.aslinside.com/
ASLPro.com
Home. (n.d.). Retrieved July 18, 2016, from http://www.aslpro.com/cgi-
bin/aslpro/fingerspell.cgi

Dr. Bill Vicars' American Sign Language (ASL) Fingerspelling Practice Site
http://asl.ms

The ASL App.

Malzkuhn, M. A., Malzkuhn M. L., Malzkuhn M. W. & Kettering, T. (2016). the
ASL app. Retrieved from http://theaslapp.com

Spread the Sign.

Sign language dictionary - SPREADTHESIGN. (n.d.). Retrieved July 18, 2016,
from http://www.SpreadtheSign.com/us

Student Learning Outcomes

Upon completion of this course, students will.
Learn and use a targeted core of vocabulary
Learn and use intermediate level of grammatical features
Produce 5 to 7 sentences - a short narrative.
Learn and express using the basic structure of narrative in ASL
Demonstrate their knowledge on some current controversial issues in the Deaf
Culture and Deaf community.
Evaluation

Summary Breakdown Grade Total:

GoReact Videos - 5%
Lab Kahoot - 5% 20%
Sign-On C.P.R. - 10%
Unit 12 Presentation - 5%
Unit 13 Presentation - 5%
Presentations 20%
Unit 14 Presentation - 5%
Unit 15 Presentation - 5%
Unit 12 Test - 10%
Unit 13 Test - 10%
Unit Tests 40%
Unit 14 Test - 10%
Unit 15 Test - 10%
Final Exam 20%
TOTAL 100%

Grading Distribution and Letter Grade Equivalent

Letter Grade GPA Value Definition Percent Range

A 4.0 Outstanding 100-94

A- 3.7 94-90

B+ 3.5 89-87

B 3.0 Good 86-84

B- 2.7 83-80

C+ 2.5 79-77

C 2.0 Unsatisfactory 76-74

C- 1.7 73-70

F 0.0 Failing 69 or below

XF 0.0 Academic integrity policy violation

Presentation Assignment (20%)

 Students will do presentations in class
Teacher will assign presentation criteria in Blackboard for each unit
Students will work on rough draft in Lab block time and upload their draft to
GoReact. Students will give peer feedback on other students rough draft presentation
Students will receive feedback from teacher via GoReact
On presentation day - teacher will record students presentation in class. Students
presentation grade will be posted in students GoReact.

Lab (20%)
Students are required to attend lab after class. If the students do not attend, it will impact their
grades. Students must complete the assignments in the lab. Any assignments that are not
completed within the lab time frame will be deduced 10% for each class that it is late.
GoReact Videos (5%)
Students will be assigned video presentations for each unit.
o Unit 12 GoReact assignment - 1%
o Unit 13 GoReact assignment - 1%
o Unit 14 GoReact assignment - 1.5%
o Unit 15 GoReact assignment - 1.5%
Specific instructions will be given in class.
The videos must be recorded via www.goreact.com by the due date.
Review the Videotaped Homework Guidelines for GoReact below to ensure
quality work.
Grading rubric and instructors feedbacks are provided on the GoReact platform
upon completion of this assignment.
Kahoot (5%)
Students will be assigned groups, and each group will collaborate on developing
interactive quizzes via Kahoot.
Kahoot quizzes must be related to the unit covered at the time.
Peer-assignments and instructions will be given during lab hour.
Sign-On C.P.R. (10%)
Students are required to purchase 5 sessions. These sessions are meant as a
continued learning tool during lab hours. Students will have the opportunity to
interact with other deaf experts through the use of videophone and/or other
webcam enabled devices.
Prior to the lab, students are to go to the website and schedule their session on
their Availability Calendar for a minimum of 24 hours in advance. The instructors
recommend you to schedule all of your sessions much more in advance due to
high volume.
Students are expected to utilize each session to the full extent of the 30 minutes
time frame. Students are expected to come to these sessions fully prepared and
ready to go with a list of questions ready to be asked.
o The questions must be preapproved by the instructor(s) prior to the
scheduled session.
After the sessions, students are to make notes. On the next class session, students
are to share one significant thing they have learned from that session.
Unit Tests (40%)
These tests consists of two portions: Comprehension Test and Production Test.
Attendance is required to take these tests. Tests will cover the contents demonstrated in
the ASL at Work textbook, lectures, handouts, and reading assignments. There are no-
make up policy due to time constraint. Instead, the lowest test will be dropped.
o Comprehension Tests (20%):
This is a test where the instructor(s) will sign from the assigned unit.
Students will demonstrate their comprehension skills of the ASL signed
and write down in equivalent English.
o Production Tests (20%):
Students will demonstrate their ASL skills learned in class by producing
ASL dialogues incorporating vocabulary and grammar structure learned in
a particular unit.
Students will be given a dialogue script on the day of the test. Students
will be given some time to read through and rehearse the dialogue before
being called on to demonstrate the dialogue to the instructor(s). The
dialogue will include vocabulary and grammar that has been covered in
the unit up until that point.

Final Exam (20%)

The final exam is focused on production and comprehensive portions. Cumulative in nature;
comprehension and production are included along with information from the workbook,
readings, presentations, lab, quizzes, lectures, videotapes shown both in and out of class, class
assignments (grammar, vocabulary, classifiers and proximity space using indexing and non-
manual signal, functions of ASL), and discussions. There will be no make-up of the final exam
except under special circumstances.

Course Content and Outline

We Clas Lesson Lab Assignment

ek s

1 Class Syllabus Discussion Lab #1

1 Introduce Students
(8/30 Kahoot practice
) Introduce creating a
GoReact sample
Introduce quiz on
Hands-On Kahoot for
CPR ASL 1 and
2 Review
Activity
 Class ASL 1 and 2 Review Lab #2
2 Activity Unit 12
(9/1) Vocabulary
- mood

2 Class Unit 12: Lab #3 Go- Influenza Video, ASL At Work student
3 Mood of the Day React workbook
(9/6) Symptoms Assignmen
Fingerspelling t

Class Unit 12: Lab #4 Read Language, Culture, and Community,

4 Health and Medical GoReact pages 355-358
(9/8) Report Assignmen
Degree of Severity t

3 Class Unit 12: Lab #5 ASL At Work student workbook, practice

5 Diagnosis and GoReact: for presentation
(9/13 Symptoms Unit 12
) Presentatio
n Draft and
Peer
Feedback

Class Unit 12: Lab #6 ASL At Work student workbook, research

6 Health-Related Hands-On paper
(9/15 Scenario CPR: Unit
) Presentations 12
Making Suggestion

4 Class Unit 12: Lab #7 ASL At Work student workbook

7 Syndromes and Create
(9/20 Deafnesses Kahoot
) Quiz for
Unit 12
Review

Class Unit 12: Lab #8 ASL At Work student workbook, study

8 Kahoot Quiz, review Review/Stu for Unit 12 test
(9/22 Unit 12 dy group
)

5 Class Unit 12 Test Lab #9 Deaf Event report due on GoReact

9
 (9/27 Unit 13
) Vocabulary
: House

Class Unit 13: Lab Take a picture of any room or find a

10 Home: Classifiers and #10 Unit picture in magazine; practice describing
(9/29 proximity space using 13 the room using Whole Entity and Plural
) indexing and non- Vocabulary Classifiers
manual signal : Office

6 Class Unit 13: Lab #11 Students will create a short story in ASL
11 Office: Classifiers Unit 13 using the vocabulary from Lab
(10/4 and proximity space Vocabulary
) : Home &
Office
Objects

Class Unit 13: Lab #12 Read Unit 13 Language, Culture, and
12 Grammar: Rhetorical Rhetorical Community section in their student text.
(10/6 Question and Questions ST p. 390
) Evolution of and Topic-
Computer Comment

7 Class Unit 13:
13 Office: Temporal
(10/1 Aspect and numbers
1)
Lab #13 Student will pick a picture of office and
Scavenger recreate a Deaf-friendly office from the
Hunt picture, student will give a presentation
about the appearance of before and after
office.

Class Unit 13: Lab #14 Read the handouts on Deaf profession,
14 Profession and VRS Leah Katz-Hernandez, and complete a
(10/1 Culture providers worksheet by answering questions.
3)

8 Class Unit 13: Lab #15 Students call teacher through VRS to
15 ASLpardy and Kahoot it discussion their grade, homework, Q/A.
(10/1 Review
8)

Class Unit 13 Test Lab #16 Start Unit 14 Vocabulary

16 Unit 14
(10/2 Vocabulary
0)

9 Class Unit 14: Goreact Study UNO card game rule on website:
17 Vocabulary assignment http://www.unorules.com/
Guessing Game : Explain
 (10/2 Snowflake Activity your Getting together as Cultural Value ST.
5) favorite pp.414
hobby and
why Playing Games ST. pp. 414

Class Unit 14: Goreact Research the discovery of baseball signals

18 Interests / Pleasures Assignmen and football huddle
(10/2 t: Students
7) will Comprehension Practice ST. 14.2 pp.420
express
their
experience
with UNO
game today
in the class.

Hobbies
vocabulary
words with
advanced
vocabulary
expression
range
interests
video

10 Class Unit 14: GoReact Rehearse assigned sports/hobbies related

19 Sports Sign Assignmen for presentation.
(11/1 Vocabulary t: Peer
) Feedback. Create 2 questionnaire for Deaflympic
Students Guest speaker
rehearse
their Read history of Deaflympics on
assigned website.(https://www.deaflympics.com/ic
sports/hobb sd.asp?history)
ies related
for
presentatio
n.

Class Unit 14: GoReact Research and find location of Summer

20 Sports/Hobbies Pres Assignmen Deaflympics 2017
(11/3 entation t: Hands-
) Video:British Sign On CPR Read Modifying Time Adverbial for
Language on Sports questionnai Duration ST. pp.406
re activity
 Narrative Structure and Duration ST.
pp.408-409

11 Class Unit 14: Kahoot Goreact:Students will share their

21 USADF - Hall of Quiz- experience
(11/8 Fame Students at a volunteer section at the local Deaf
) Compare deaf and use Lab sport event.
hearing culture in time to
basketball create and
develop
their own
Kahoot
quiz.
Further
instructions
and
grading
rubric will
be
provided in
person and
posted
online.

Class Unit 14 Review Unit 14 Study for Unit 14 Test

22 Review
(11/1
0)

12 Class Unit 14 Test Lab #23

23 Unit 15
(11/1 Vocabulary
5)

Class Unit 15: Lab #24 Students will have to create a short
24 Discussing Money Vocabulary narrative about which store they would
(11/1 How Much? and shop at and how they would spend their
7) Students money on then upload in GoReact.
will pair
with each
other to do
an
interview
with each
other on
how they
 would
spend
money on
shopping

13 Class Unit 15: Lab #25 GoReact Students pick a restaurant that is
25 Shopping: Cheap or Vocabulary Deaf friendly. Student explain and raise
(11/2 Expensive? and aware about those place.
2) students
will make a
vlog on
goreact on
deaf
owners

Class Unit 15: Lab #26 Read ASL at WORK pg. 445 about and
26 Banking and Hands On research/list out 5 different Deaf
(11/2 Businesses Travel entrepreneurship in America.
4) (HOT).
Practice
new
vocabularie
s.

14 Class Unit 15: Lab #27 Research money conversion and list
27 Tipping and VP Hands- Interpreting Services
(11/2 International Money On CPR
9) with
H.O.T.
agents.

Class Unit 15: Lab #28 1.Write a reflective paper.

28 Managing Money and Kahoot 2.prepare presentation
(12/1 Flea Markets
)

15 Class Unit 15: Lab #29 Review for Unit 15 Test

29 Presentations One
(12/6 Math problems Million
) Dollars

Class Unit 15 Review with Lab #30 Study for Unit 15

30 Kahoot Review for
(12/8 Final
)
 16 Class Unit 15 Test 5th Sign- Study for Final
31 On CPR:
(12/1 Communities Comprehen
3) Activity and Silent sive Q&A
Supper

Class Final Exit Exam

32
(12/1
5)
Instructors reserve the right to make revisions to this course with advance notice if possible.