This segment continues to focus on useful communication that students should be able to carry out in ASL. Students study the basic signs and phrases, techniques, and cultural nature of the language. Students are introduced to the new concept of conceptually accurate signing that places emphasis on awareness of differences between ASL and English. Lesson topics shift from the everyday interaction in one’s immediate environment to interactions in the community to help students to build signing skills for obtaining and providing information rather than simply exchanging information. To support students as they build conceptual accuracy, the lessons stress ASL classifiers; students will be challenged to receptively identify some of the most common classifiers in contexts, and to apply them in their own signing. As a part of culture learning, students will continue to learn more facts about the Deaf culture as well as current and past challenging social issues. The signing videos will be all “voice off” to help develop students’ receptive skills without reading lips. Students will be asked to use various media tools including online resources, online dictionaries, a web cam, and the web-based Video Notes tool in Brightspace in order to record their performance in assignment submissions throughout the course. Students will be producing their own signing videos to demonstrate their learning. The goal of this course is to help utilize the fundamental ASL skills and knowledge into simple interpersonal and social interactions.
With the prerequisites of the first year courses, this course targets Novice-High Level of Michigan World Language Standards and Benchmarks.
ASL is a sign language that is different from Signed Exact English (SEE).
Prerequisites: ASL 2A
Course Objectives: Upon completion of this course, students will be able to...
- Receive and provide simple information that are represented by ASL classifiers.
- Demonstrate the minimum level of conceptual accuracy by attending to the meaning of frequently used English words.
- Identify and explain the current and past social issues, and make connections to the society as a whole.
Course Outline:
Unit 1 - Volunteer – Use of EXPERIENCE FINSH, rule of 9, classifiers review, singular and plural GO-TO, CL: 1, noun-verb pairs, and attending to English homonyms
Unit 2 - Vacation – Introduction to conceptual accuracy, , introduction to eye gazing, near and distant future/past, CL: 4, CL: V and CL:3
Community Service Project
Unit 3 - My School – Alternative ethnicity signs, shoulder-shifting to mean ‘but’ and ‘and’, ASL numbers greater than 1000, ordinal numbers, individual use of EXPERIENCE and FINISH
Mid-Term Exam
Unit 4 - Family Routine – Spatial organization with shoulder shifting, age spot and numerical incorporation, tense markers, locations of objects, and CL:3
Unit 5 - Getting Around in Town – Asking for/giving a general direction, asking for/giving a more specific direction, fixing mistakes during a conversation, CL:V and CL: Claw
Final Exam
Resources Included: Michigan Virtual provides students enrolled in this course a video submission tool within the Brightspace learning management system and access to Lifeprint.com online lesson resources.
Online lesson instruction and activities, opportunities to engage with a certified, online instructor and classmates, when appropriate, and online assessments to measure student performance of course objectives and readiness for subsequent academic pursuits.
Additional Costs: None
Scoring System: Michigan Virtual does not assign letter grades, grant credit for courses, nor issue transcripts or diplomas. A final score reported as a percentage of total points earned will be sent to students upon completion of a course. Your school mentor is also able to access this score within the Student Learning Portal. Schools may use this score for conversion to their own letter grading system.
Time Commitment: Semester sessions are 18-weeks long: Students must be able to spend 1 or more hours per day in the course to be successful. Summer sessions are 10 weeks long: Students must be able to spend a minimum of 2 or more hours per day, or about 90 hours during the summer, for the student to be successful in any course. Trimester sessions are 12-weeks long: Students must be able to spend 1.5 or more hours per day in the course to be successful.
Technology Requirements: Students will require a computer device with headphones, a microphone, webcam, up-to-date Chrome Web Browser, and access to YouTube. NOTE: Students are required to have access to a webcam or other means of submitting video recordings of their performance of American Sign Language as a primary component of their required assessments.
Please review the Michigan Virtual Technology Requirements: https://michiganvirtual.org/about/support/knowledge-base/technical-requirements/
Instructor Support System: For technical issues within your course, contact the Customer Care Center by email at [email protected] or by phone at (888) 889-2840.
Instructor Contact Expectations: Students can use email or the private message system within the Student Learning Portal to access highly qualified teachers when they need instructor assistance. Students will also receive feedback on their work inside the learning management system. The Instructor Info area of their course may describe additional communication options.
Academic Support Available: In addition to access to a highly qualified, Michigan certified teacher, students have access to academic videos and outside resources verified by Michigan Virtual. For technical issues within the course, students can contact the Michigan Virtual Customer Care by email at [email protected] or by phone at (888) 889-2840.
Required Assessment: Online assessments consist of formative and summative assessments represented by computer-graded multiple choice, instructor-graded writing assignments including hands-on projects, model building and other forms of authentic assessments, including recording your performance of sign language.
Technical Skills Needed: Basic technology skills necessary to locate and share information and files as well as interact with others in a Learning Management System (LMS), include the ability to:
- Download, edit, save, convert, and upload files
- Download and install software
- Use a messaging service similar to email
- Communicate with others in online discussion or message boards, following basic rules of netiquette
- Open attachments shared in messages
- Create, save, and submit files in commonly used word processing program formats and as a PDF
- Edit file share settings in cloud-based applications, such as Google Docs, Sheets, or Slides
- Save a file as a .pdf
- Copy and paste and format text using your mouse, keyboard, or an html editor’s toolbar menu
- Insert images or links into a file or html editor
- Search for information within a document using Ctrl+F or Command+F keyboard shortcuts
- Work in multiple browser windows and tabs simultaneously
- Activate a microphone or webcam on your device, and record and upload or link audio and/or video files
- Use presentation and graphics programs
- Follow an online pacing guide or calendar of due dates
- Use spell-check, citation editors, and tools commonly provided in word processing tool menus
- Create and maintain usernames and passwords
Additional Information: None