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
Continue your journey through the vibrant worlds of EARth and EYEth. It’s time to take your American Sign Language skills to the next level! In this course, you’ll meet three friends: Rebecca, Erica, and Benjamin (who is Deaf), as they navigate their first year of high school. You'll follow their daily adventures. Along the way you will learn to express your routines, sign about your family, give a review of a restaurant, tell about your healthy habits, and talk about your weekend getaways and your dream vacation. You'll make stops along the way to broaden your understanding of Deaf culture and its rich history and compare it with your own culture. Join us and discover the power of visual language in a whole new way. Your adventure in American Sign Language continues here!
Follow the link below for the Department Education description for this course.
Module One: Daily Life
-Morning routines, School routines, Evening routines
-Deaf vs Hearing chores
-Recurring time signs
-Deaf President Now
-Class schedule
-Listing and referencing back
-Finish as a transition
-Durative time signs
-Noun/verb pairs
-Will, Not yet, Finish
Module Two: Meet the Family
-Family members
-ASL literature types
-CODAs/KODAs
-Comparison of hearing/deaf weddings
-Masculine vs feminine signs
-Subject plural pronouns, Possessive pronouns, adjectives, Physical descriptions
-Descriptive classifiers, Non-manual markers
-Sign names and cultural acceptance
- Occupations, Deaf people in different occupations
Module Three: Gallaudet Party of Two
-Seating arrangement, Requests in a restaurant
-DeafSpace - lighting, center pieces
-Classifiers for table layouts
-Communicating with Deaf customers
-Role-shifting
-ASL Literature
-Directionality- Bring, Give
-Mozzeria/Signing Starbucks
-Numbers- cost- dollars and cents
-Payments and opinions
Module Four: Daily Life
-Illness, injury, Staying Healthy
-Degrees of intensity, Directional indicators
-Cochlear Implants, Hearing Aids
-Body part classifiers
-Using negation
-ADA/Interpreters in Medical
-Numeral incorporation with lengths of time, Frequency
-Eye Fatigue
-Staying Fit
-Deaf Yoga Foundation, Deaf trainer Anne Reuss, Deaf athletes
Module Five: Daily Life
-Lending a hand at home
-Directional Verbs
-Serving your community
-ASL interpreters for natural disasters, Certified Deaf Interpreters
-Weekend enjoyment
-Deaf Slam and Deaf meetups
-Conceptual accuracy- skating
-Weekend getaway
-Florida Deaf art show
Module Six: Daily Life
-Planning for vacation
-ASL literature
-Take (a trip) vs Take (it with you)
-Cost- numbers over 100
-International Sign, ASL around the world
-Real-world orientation
-Fly to/fly from- Drive to/Drive from
-Different dialects/ reginal signs
-National Park interpreting services, Deaf Everest Climbers
-Rhq WHAT
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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