High American Sign Language 1

Segment 1

• Identify and use greetings and basic introductions.
• Identify and use the manual alphabet and fingerspelling within various contexts.
• Identify and use numbers 0–65.
• Identify and apply question words to ask and answer questions.
• Describe the similarities of Deaf culture to one's own.
• Describe personal and physical characteristics.
• Describe your family.
• Express dates, including birthdays, holidays, and celebrations.
• Identify and apply past, present, and future tense.
• Identify and use school schedules, days, months, and classes.
• Identify parts of a house and describe home characteristics.
• Compare and contrast school systems and routines.
• Identify and use numeral incorporations with time signs.
• Identify and use Topic-Comment sentence structure.
• Identify and describe the history of American Sign Language.
• Identify and use appropriate attention-getting techniques.
• Identify and apply the five parameters.

Segment 2

• Describe food and drink as well as preferences.
• Describe clothing used for different seasons/weather.
• Identify and use city, activity, terrain, and map vocabulary.
• Identify and use locative, semantic, and descriptive classifiers.
• Identify and use spatial relationships and classifiers to provide directions.
• Identify and use modes of transportation vocabulary.
• Identify and use vocabulary to sign about plans and travel.
• Describe different Deaf communities within major cities.
• Describe Deaf President now and laws that came as a result and their impact on the Deaf community.
• Identify and apply directionality to form verb agreement.
• Identify and apply the use of rhetorical questions.

Required:

• device of choice to record video (for example: webcam or smartphone or tablet with video)
• paper
• pen or pencil

Optional:

• microphone
• printer
• speakers or headset

Besides engaging students in challenging curriculum, the course guides students to reflect on their learning and evaluate their progress through a variety of assessments. Assessments can be in the form of practice lessons, multiple choice questions, writing assignments, projects, research papers, oral assessments, and discussions. This course will use the state-approved grading scale. Each course contains a mandatory final exam or culminating project that will be weighted at 20% of the student’s overall grade.***

***Proctored exams can be requested by FLVS at any time and for any reason in an effort to ensure academic integrity. When taking the exam to assess a student’s integrity, the exam must be passed with at least a 59.5% in order to earn credit for the course.  

To achieve success, students are expected to submit work in each course weekly. Students can learn at their own pace; however, “any pace” still means that students must make progress in the course every week. To measure learning, students complete self-checks, practice lessons, multiple choice questions, projects, discussion-based assessments, and discussions. Students are expected to maintain regular contact with teachers; the minimum requirement is monthly. When teachers, students, and parents work together, students are successful.