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Course Description & Credits:
The skills of writing/reading (glossing); expressive (speaking); receptive (listening); are combined with a study of the culture of the target language; ASL. Various classroom activities will be conducted in the target language and students will be encouraged to use ASL primarily for communication in all areas of study. This course will provide students an opportunity to continue studies of target language (ASL) and culture. Using Classifiers and building stories that utilizes layers of movement in Classifiers. This course will allow students to deepen their desire to continue studies in ASL and strive for excellence. Due to the rigor and nature of the course; honors credit would be awarded.

1 Credit

Course Sequence: (in chart form)

ASL I
ASL II
ASL III H
ASL IV H
ASL V H

Course Outline and Standard Alignment:
1. Describing People and Places
2. Making Requests and asking for advice
3. Deaf Allegory
4. Describing Places
5. Giving Opinions about Others
6. Discussing Plans and Goals
7. Storytelling

Standard Resources
Interpersonal Communication (IC) Intermediate High 1;2;3

Interpretive Listening (IL) Intermediate High 1; 2

Cultures (CUL) Intermediate
Presentational Speaking (PS) Intermediate High 1

Learning Target & Criteria for Success:

Learning Target (with Standard) Criteria for Success (bulleted)
(PS) A Low I can deliver presentations for a specific audience.
• I can deliver a presentation to my classmates or colleagues.

Supporting Standards:
CON Intermediate 1
COMP Advanced 1;2
COM Advanced 1;2

Key Vocabulary:
SN Unit 7-12

Instructional Strategies/Suggestions:
• If you used “The Tailor” in unit 7; skip this story now.
Interdisciplinary Supporting Standards:
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Common Misconceptions:
• Role shift and agreement verbs
District Exit Outcomes:
4.1

Assessments
• Unit tests including Receptive; Culture/Grammar; Expressive
• Quizzes
• Dialogues and presentations
• Presentations
Textbooks/Resources
Signing Naturally 7-12
Syllabus is Attached

Course Objectives

MCCCD Official Course Competencies
1. Demonstrate expressive and receptive mastery of grammatical features of American Sign Language (A.S.L.) sentence types; time; pronominalization; direction verbs; classifiers; locatives; and plurals in specific commands; questions; and statements. (I)
2. Demonstrate expressive and receptive mastery of targeted lexicon. (II)
3. Identify and produce simple fingerspelled words and loan signs in context. (III)
4. Apply A.S.L. skills in communicating short stories; narratives; and dialogues. (IV)
5. Initiate; conduct; and terminate medium length conversations in A.S.L.(IV)

MCCCD Official Course Outline
I. Basic Grammatical Features of A.S.L.
A. Sentence types
1. Declarative
2. Questions
3. Commands
4. Topicalized
5. Conditional
B. Grammatical features of time
1. Time line
2. Referent point
3. Directions at movement
4. Incorporation of specific units
C. Pronominalization
1. Referents
2. Plurals
3. Spatial locations
4. Possessives
5. Reflexives
D. Verbs
1. Defining subjects and objects
2. Modulations
3. Distributional aspects
E. Classifiers
1. Handshapes
2. Size and shape specifiers
3. Modulation
F. Locatives
1. Incorporating verbs
2. Directionality
G. Plurals
H. Temporal aspects
1. Long time
2. Regularly
3. Over time
II. Targeted Lexicon
III. Fingerspelling
A. Expressive
B. Receptive
C. Loans
IV. Application of A.S.L. skills
A. Stories
B. Narratives
C. Dialogues
D. Spontaneous conversations
1. Initiating
2. Conducting
3. Terminating

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Approved

Approved competency code

• LNG2
• 2nd year of Foreign Language

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Online / Virtual