In Class Assignments
Project Papers:
Name Signs
In this paper, you went around to most (or all) of your classmates and asked them, using no voice, what their names and name signs were. The other person will fingerspell their first and last names, and then give you their name sign.
For those of you that might've forgotten, a name sign is a sign that you make up to represent your name. Maybe you like volleyball, and your name is Miranda. Instead of using the sign "volleyball", you would change it to an "M", and still use the sign action. Or if your name is Kevin, and you like baseball, you would use "K"s for the sign, rather than your fists.
Phone Numbers and Birthdays
This was an assignment for you to get the hang of using numbers in sign language. Very similar to the last one, you went around to your class and asked each student what his/her name was, what their phone number was, and what their birthday was. (Try to get the whole phone number at once, rather than having them sign one number at a time).
Ten Questions
For this project paper, you thought up ten questions, any questions you wanted, and went around to the students in you class and signed your questions to them; they would give you an answer and you would write it down.
Conversations:
All students in ASL I and in ASL II eventually will be called on to go up in front of the class and have a conversation with the teacher in sign language (Signed English). Everyone else will have to document the conversation by writing a half page summary of what they talked about. If the conversations aren't in your notebook, you'll get points taken off when he goes to grade them.
ASL Notebooks:
Every single person should have an ASL notebook, which is where they keep track of most, if not, all of their work.
Your notebook should include the following:
A Table of Contents with each page labeled with a number to find everything easily.
The lists of signs that you get; have the number of signs for that particular list up at the top of the paper circled, and have a running total of all your signs put together.
Conversations need to be somewhere in your notebook and should be half a page each.
Fingerspelling lists that you have used to practice should be in there as well.
All of your ASL Facts ought to be in there too.
Any other in-class assignments that weren't turned in.
Quizzes:
If you are absent for one of the weekly quizzes, you won't be able to make it up.
There are three types of quizzes that each class takes, Vocabulary (sentences are signed and everyone writes them down), Fingerspelling (words are fingerspelled and everyone writes them down) and Facts (questions are signed and everyone writes down the answers). Depending on the type of quiz, he'll either only repeat the sentence/word once or twice.
Each quiz is worth 20 points; ASL I students do both sides and add up their scores for each side to get the total; ASL II does both sides as well, but they add up both scores and divide by two.
Other:
There are various other assignments that you do in class; most of the time, if you're gone, you won't be able to make them up (participation is a huge factor in your grade too, absence = 10 pts off, tardy = 5 pts off).
Some of the things you might do includes skits, dialogue sentences, book assignments (there really aren't many), group conversations, and so on.
Name Signs
In this paper, you went around to most (or all) of your classmates and asked them, using no voice, what their names and name signs were. The other person will fingerspell their first and last names, and then give you their name sign.
For those of you that might've forgotten, a name sign is a sign that you make up to represent your name. Maybe you like volleyball, and your name is Miranda. Instead of using the sign "volleyball", you would change it to an "M", and still use the sign action. Or if your name is Kevin, and you like baseball, you would use "K"s for the sign, rather than your fists.
Phone Numbers and Birthdays
This was an assignment for you to get the hang of using numbers in sign language. Very similar to the last one, you went around to your class and asked each student what his/her name was, what their phone number was, and what their birthday was. (Try to get the whole phone number at once, rather than having them sign one number at a time).
Ten Questions
For this project paper, you thought up ten questions, any questions you wanted, and went around to the students in you class and signed your questions to them; they would give you an answer and you would write it down.
Conversations:
All students in ASL I and in ASL II eventually will be called on to go up in front of the class and have a conversation with the teacher in sign language (Signed English). Everyone else will have to document the conversation by writing a half page summary of what they talked about. If the conversations aren't in your notebook, you'll get points taken off when he goes to grade them.
ASL Notebooks:
Every single person should have an ASL notebook, which is where they keep track of most, if not, all of their work.
Your notebook should include the following:
A Table of Contents with each page labeled with a number to find everything easily.
The lists of signs that you get; have the number of signs for that particular list up at the top of the paper circled, and have a running total of all your signs put together.
Conversations need to be somewhere in your notebook and should be half a page each.
Fingerspelling lists that you have used to practice should be in there as well.
All of your ASL Facts ought to be in there too.
Any other in-class assignments that weren't turned in.
Quizzes:
If you are absent for one of the weekly quizzes, you won't be able to make it up.
There are three types of quizzes that each class takes, Vocabulary (sentences are signed and everyone writes them down), Fingerspelling (words are fingerspelled and everyone writes them down) and Facts (questions are signed and everyone writes down the answers). Depending on the type of quiz, he'll either only repeat the sentence/word once or twice.
Each quiz is worth 20 points; ASL I students do both sides and add up their scores for each side to get the total; ASL II does both sides as well, but they add up both scores and divide by two.
Other:
There are various other assignments that you do in class; most of the time, if you're gone, you won't be able to make them up (participation is a huge factor in your grade too, absence = 10 pts off, tardy = 5 pts off).
Some of the things you might do includes skits, dialogue sentences, book assignments (there really aren't many), group conversations, and so on.