High American Sign Language 2
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Number of Credits
1
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Estimated Completion Time
2 Semesters
Pre Requisites
American Sign Language 1
Description
This course will reinforce the fundamental skills acquired in your American Sign Language 1 course. You will continue your journey by increasing your interpretive and communication skills of this visual language while continuing to explore the Deaf culture. Get ready to broaden your concept of communication through connections and comparisons to your own culture and community.
Student video submissions required.
Follow the link below for the Department Education description for this course.
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.
Courses subject to availability.
Pursuant to s. 1002.20, F.S.; A public school student whose parent makes written request to the school principal shall be exempted from the teaching of reproductive health or any disease, including HIV/AIDS, in accordance with the provisions of s. 1003.42(3). Learn more about the process and which courses contain subject matter where an exemption request can be made.
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