American sign language unit plan

American sign language unit plan

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  Katelyn Lewis
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  Analyze The Leaner This lesson is planned for a class of 4th grade regular education students. The class is made up of 16 students, 10 girls and 6 boys. They are between the ages of 10-11 years old. There is two ethnicities represented, 80% white and 20% African American. Only about 10% of the students have heard of American Sign Language(ASL).
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  Main Objective  Aclass of 4th grade students will develop an understanding of American Sign Language (ASL) and the people who use it and will demonstrate a basic conversation between two people using sign language. The students will do this by making posters, learning how to sign a familiar song, and video taping a conversation between different students in their group with an 85% accuracy by the end of the week.
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  Day by Day Day One: History Behind American Sign Language  Day Two: Reasons for Learning Sign Language  Day Three: Who uses Sign Language  Day Four: Signing the Alphabet  Day Five: Commonly used Signs and Questions (Ex. Bathroom, Yes & No, Sorry, Food, Name, etc.)
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  Technology  Posters: TheStudents will be put into groups and I will give each group a specific person who is in the Deaf Community. They will have to research and make a poster about the person they have been given and then present it to the class.  YouTube Videos: The Students will use a YouTube video to help learn how to sign a song familiar to them.  Video Cameras: The groups will have to make a video of them having a conversation only through Sign Language.
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  Work cited  Duke,Irene. (2009). The Everything Sign Language Book. Avon: Adams Media, a division of F+W Media , Inc.  Silverstein, S. (2011). Hand Land. In S. Silverstein, Every Thing On It (pp. 192-193). New York: Harper.