Unit 19

ASL CLUB will be meeting

NEXT WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 15 after school around 4:15 to take a GROUP picture for the YEARBOOK!!!!!

Signing Naturally 19

Now what?

With a DIFFERENT partner, other than your BFF, research a simple number-based fact. Find 2-3 additional facts that in someway relate to your first fact.

Once you have found 3-4 facts total, you and your partner will create a dialogue that includes the facts.

YOU WILL TURN IN A GLOSSED TRANSCRIPT FOR YOUR GRADE.

A: Hey Jon! What's up?

B: Hey Meagan! Not much, just came from ASL class.

A: Cool! Was it fun?

B: Yeah, ASL is always fun. Did you know that 1 in 10 Deaf kids have Deaf parents?

A: Wow! So out of 10, 9 have hearing parents?

B: Yeah! Plus, only 25% of hearing parents learn sign language.

A: That's awful. Parents should learn the language their child uses.

B: Yeah I agree, parents think their child will be able to lipread, but in reality, only 1/3 of English can be lipread. The other 2/3 is unintelligible.

A: That is an eye-opener! Wow... Well, ready

to go to lunch?

B: Yeah, let's go.

* Your facts can be about ANY topic, not just

Deafness.

* Make your conversation seem natural, not

rehearsed or practiced.

* Details!! Details!! Details!!

* You will have the rest of today and tomorrow to

work on your dialogue.

Your dialogue will look something like that.

We have iPads to use today!! You can use them to look up your facts!!

Things to remember:

By the way...

Whole to Part facts

Top-Most-Oldest

Signing facts that involve Ranking & Top Five.

These are facts that contain phrases such as "out of" and "half of all." Since the fact is about the part, it must be distinguished FROM the whole to make the point.

How to:

* Establish the topic (raised eyebrows)

* Listen items on weak hand

* Ask a rhetorical question

* Tell which is the top, most, or oldest

Idioms

How to illustrate a fact, that does NOT necessarily have numbers, by using classifiers.

Whole - Part

Practice

EX: 7 out of 8 Students don't do their homework.

How to:

* Establish the topic using raised eyebrows

* Ask a rhetorical question to focus the topic

* List items by order on your weak hand

(start with your thumb and work down)

Example: Out of these 5 months, which month has the most baby births?

(1) July (2) January (3) August

(4) May (5) December

1 in 10 Deaf children have Deaf parents.

1 in 9 teachers of the Deaf is Deaf themselves.

25% of American Roman Catholics are hispanic.

75% of American Roman Catholics are

non-hispanic.

1/10 of restaurants in the United States serves

pizza. 9/10 of restaurants don't serve pizza.

57 out of 100 people on Earth are of Asian descent.

8 out of 10 boxers end up with some kind of brain

damage.

Half of all crimes happen indoors, in hallways,

elevators, and basements.

40% of Americans say they dream in color.

23% of Americans say they dream

in black and white.

How do you sign it?

Example: What are the top 5 universities in the U.S. for 2014?

(1) Princeton University - NJ

(2) Harvard University - MA

(3) Yale University - CT

(4) Columbia University - NY

(5) Stanford University - California

1. Broach the subject.

2. Name the topic using raised eyebrows.

3. Pose a rhetorical question.

4. Explain the "answer" to the question.

1. Set up the whole using raised eyebrows.

2. Tell about the part using either percentages, fractions, or ratio

3. Contrast the part with the rest of the whole and comment.

With the person sitting in front of you, discuss how you would sign each of the following idioms.

Remember, get to the MEANING of the idiom, not the English words.

Once you and your partner are done, we will go around the room to see how different each of our interpretations are.

Finally...

"8 out of 10 books sold are paperback."

Setting up a fact using FRACTIONS or PERCENTS

Stefanie follows the

same structure by setting up the whole, then stating the fact.

"One out of four women is addicted to chocolate"

Warm Up

Setting up a fact using a ratio

"One out of four women is addicted to Chocolate."

Things to remember:

* which phrase will you use to broach the subject?

* how will role shift help?

* how do you interpret the fact to make it clear?

* what NMM or rhetorical question will help emphasize the point?

VIDEO:

• Watch how John signs the fact.
• First he sets up the whole. (WOMEN)
• Then he signs the fraction 1/4 to indicate the number of women addicted to chocolate.
• Finally he contrasts the part by signing the remaining 3/4 of women are not addicted to chocolate.
• John raises his eyebrows to emphasize the numbers.
• You can do the same thing with percents.

VIDEO:

• John identifies the whole. (WOMEN) He signs "ALL-OVER" to set up all the women in the world.
• Then he signs 4 on his ND side then signs 1 OUT OF that group by "pulling" the number out of the whole.
• Finally, the comment about the part is that 1 woman is addicted to chocolate.

Whole-Part Fact Dialogues

Handshape

"E"

How many signs do you know with the handshape "E"

BORN WITH TWO LEFT FEET

to COME CLEAN

DOGGY BAG

DON'T SWEAT IT

EYE-OPENER (It was an EYE-OPENER)

FOOD FOR THOUGHT

KICK UP YOUR HEELS

NEVER A DULL MOMENT

You have 25 minutes to develop your dialogue

with your partner.

Make sure to remember...

* 3-4 facts using numbers (fractions, ratios, or percents)

* Make your conversation seem natural, not rehearsed

* MEMORIZED!!

* Turn in your GLOSSED paper

FS/# Quiz

Do you enjoy going to the rodeo? What is your favorite part? Why?

What about the Stock Show/fairgrounds?

I have a sheet of paper for you.

Number your paper #1-10.

Who wants to volunteer as our signer??

Agenda

VIDEO TODAY using iPads!!!

OBJ: SWBAT demonstrate an understanding of how to present facts in the target language by preparing a videotaped presentation.

Announcements

Dead Dog

Comparison Facts

ASL IDOL - April 11 -

Tryouts are March 3 - SEE ME TO PICK UP AN APPLICATION!!

Deaf Coffee Chat - Friday, Feb. 28

SAC - ASL Talent Show - This is a GREAT OPPORTUNITY to get out into the community and watch some ASL performances!!!

March 1, 2014 - 6:00pm - McAllister Auditorium @ SAC - tickets at door

When the fact is about comparing two things, use contrastive structure.

* Establish one topic on your left and one topic on your right

* When signing about the topic on the left, ALL info is signed to the left and vise-versa.

If you didn't videotape yesterday, you have 10 minutes to get your video done!

If you don't get it done in that time, we will move on with or without you because I had to really negotiate to get the ipads again!

If you are done videotaping, hang tight. We will continue in a minute.

Comparison Facts Telephone

How to sign a comparison fact:

1. State the two topics - on one your left and one on your right

2. Use a rhetorical question

3. Give the information about each

4. Your interpretation/opinion

*no right/wrong answer*

Now, trade iPads with someone.

You are going to watch their video, write the ASL Gloss version then write the English FROM THE GLOSS. Don't add any information to their story, ONLY WRITE WHAT THEY SIGNED!

I will tell you why we are doing this in a minute, once you are done with the GLOSS and English.

I am going to individually sign a fact to each person. I am only going to sign it TWICE.

They will write it down, figure out how to sign it, then go around to each of you and sign it. They will only sign the fact TWICE.

You will do the same with a different fact.

You will also need to WRITE down everyone's facts that they sign.

At the end, we will compare and see how "far" the facts got from the original and how effective you were at producing.