High American Sign Language 2

Segment 1

Module 1—Daily Life

• Morning and evening routines
• Daily school routine and school schedule
• Needs of deaf students in the classroom
• After-school activities including jobs, volunteering, and other activities
• The importance of DPN in the Deaf community
• Glossing sentences in ASL
• Recurring time signs
• Durative time signs

Module 2—Home Sweet Home

• Rooms and objects in various rooms in your home
• Locative classifiers
• Signer's perspective
• Mouth morphemes
• Noun-verb pairs
• Describing rooms and objects in your home
• Deaf movements, organization, and acts important for Deaf advocacy

Module 3—Meet the Family

• Childhood experiences
• Possessive adjectives and pronouns
• Important Deaf authors and literature
• Family and life events
• Types of ASL literature and folklore
• Pronouns
• Plural pronouns
• Signing age

Segment 2

Module 4—Healthy Living

• Maintain a healthy lifestyle
• Describe a doctor’s visit
• The Rule of 9
• Body part classifiers
• Order from a restaurant menu
• Describe food preferences
• Glossing sentences in ASL
• Negation
• Facial expressions
• Role shifting
• Hundreds and thousands
• Showing height

Module 5—City Life

• Services and places in cities
• Give directions
• Community issues and projects
• The role and importance of ASL interpreters in society
• Rural and urban community life for the Deaf and hard of hearing
• Maps and Intersections
• Deaf puns

Module 6—Into the Future

• Plan a vacation
• The future tense
• Travel planning for the Deaf community
• Post-secondary education and career plans
• Post-secondary education and career opportunities in the Deaf community
• Famous Deaf people
• Touch and Touch Finish
• Experience and Experience Finish
• Cost in ASL

Microphone and speakers or headset

Device of choice to record video (for example: webcam, smartphone, or tablet with video)

This course requires video recorded assignments for each module as well as live video Discussion-Based Assessments to assess mastery of the language.

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.