Good Morning Week

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Good MorningWeek 1 8-24-09 / 8-28-09

• ASL I

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Monday8-24-09Good Morning!

• Welcome to American Sign Language Class!
• Please take your seat-you will find your name on
  the desk where you are to sit.

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Agenda Monday 8-24-09

• Introduction
• 10 day count
• Expectations / Rules
• Course syllabus
• Personal Peeves
• Handouts blue card, etc.
• Importance of finger spelling
• Pre-test if time permits

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Bell Work8-24-09

• How did you feel when you walked into class?
• Did you understand what was going on?

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Good Morning!Agenda Tuesday 8-25-09

• i. attendance
• ii. Brief lecture on sign language etiquette
• iii. Learn the alphabet
• iv. Numbers 1-10
• v. Work on fingerspelling
• Bell Work
• In your notebook please copy down the SAT word
  and the meaning. You need to write a complete
  sentence.
• abdicate v.- to give up (royal power or the
  like).

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ASL Rules of Etiquette

• Eye Contact
• Signing Space
• Which hand do I use?
• Facial Expressions
• ASL Is not English
• Fingerspelling
• Precision is Important
• 5 Parameters of Sign

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Eye Contact

• In Deaf culture not maintaining eye contact is
  considered rude.
• If you dont maintain eye contact it can mean
  several things to deaf people
• you are not paying attention
• you are day-dreaming
• you dont want to participate in the conversation
• You are not interested in conversation
• Remember your eyes are your ears.

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The Signing Space

• The area where most signs are made in normal
  conversation. Signing outside the sign space is
  uncomfortable on you and the person watching.
• Most signs are
• Centered on your right or left of your middle
  torso.

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Which Hand do I use?

• The hand that feels comfortable to you most of
  the time it is the hand you write with.
• That hand is called your dominate hand
• The other hand is the non-dominate hand
• DONT SWITCH!!

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Facial Expressions

• When people talk in a monotone you become bored.
  That same truth holds for signing without facial
  expression IT IS BORING for me and other deaf
  people.

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ASL is not English

• ASL is not English
• You must learn to think in ASL not English

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Fingerspelling

• We talked about this yesterday
• Try to communicate in other ways before you
  fingerspell.
• It is not an easy task to master. It takes time
  and thats fine.

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Precision is Important

• Signing clearly is the same as speaking clearly
• Sloppy signing is exactly like mumbling
• This can lead to misunderstandings.

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The 5 parameters of sign

• handshape
• Palm orientation
• Location
• Movement
• Non-manual signals/ facial expressions

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Good Morning!Agenda Wednesday 8-26-09

• Attendance
• Review s 1-10
• Review ABCs
• Video to review what I talked about.
• Bell Work
• In your notebook please copy down the SAT word
  and the meaning. You need to write a complete
  sentence.
• abrogate v. to abolish, repeal.

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Good Morning!Agenda Thursday 8-27-09

• Attendance
• Go over any questions that you have
• Quiz 1
• Bell Work
• In your notebook please copy down the SAT word
  and the meaning. You need to write a complete
  sentence.
• abrupt adj.-beginning, ending, or changing
  suddenly.

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Good Morning!Agenda Friday 8-29-09

• Attendance
• Chapter 1-vocabuluary
• Greetings-exercise
• Bell Work
• In your notebook please copy down the SAT word
  and the meaning. You need to write a complete
  sentence.
• abstruse Adj.- dealing with matters
  difficult to be understood.