Vlog : Host A Halloween Party

Watch the following video and comment on the questions below. Please cover the bottom of your screen so you do not see the captioning.

http://deaftv.com/film/How-to-Throw-a-Halloween-Party-DeafPod/

How would you host your own party? Use ideas presented here, explain why you liked them and elaborate on them. Select another student's vlog and provide feedback. The feedback should include: Vocabulary parameters, grammar structure, facial expression and body language.

For your first post you must sign for at least 2 minutes. Your second comment needs to be at least one minute. Students must select a student that no one has commented on yet. For your second comment be sure to type who you commented on.

The first comment needs to be completed before class on Wednesday, Nov.2 and your second post before class on Friday, Nov. 4.

Tutor Corner, WEEK 7, Oct. 17-21 2011

Practice your How-To presentation with the tutors this week!

Blog Week 7

NO BLOG THIS WEEK! GO TO THE TUTOR FOR HOW-TO MIDTERM FEEDBACK, ASSISTANCE, AND GUIDANCE!

Vlog Week 6: Midterm Rough Draft

For this weeks vlog, I would like you to present a rough draft of your how-to presentation. Students will comment on each other vlog providing feedback on vocabulary execution, grammar and structure, and pace/flow. You may also wish to ask each other questions.

Midterm Requirements: How To Presentation


Students are required to present their “How To” presentation to the class weeks 8 and 9. Friday during week 7 will be a required work day and I will check over your presentation before you give it. This presentation needs to be 5-7 minutes in length and conducted completely in ASL. When students are presenting, students will be interrupting and asking questions in ASL. Three students will be selected to ask questions during your presentation. Make sure you know your topic well so you will be able to stop and answer their questions.

Requirements:

Header (each page)
Full Name
Intermediate ASL I
How to Presentation: Midterm
Monica Marciniak
Date

Outline

Students need to create a professional outline of your presentation. This outline needs to be typed and handed in for grading. I have provided you with a handout that discusses how presentations are structured and a sample outline. Follow this sample when developing your presentation use your textbook for help. You are required to have two outlines. One is in English and the other is in ASL.

ASL Vocabulary, Classifiers, and Grammar List

Students need to expressively demonstrate and provide a typed list of their vocabulary (wealth of knowledge), classifiers, grammar (noun/verb pairs, topic comment, pronoun placement, descriptive adjectives, if clauses, conjunctions, rhetorical, wh?, yes & no?, directional verbs, facial adverbs, modals, and use of locative space used during their presentations. Students must write their presentation in coded ASL. Use your previous text to help you develop how to write these sentences.

_____t_________ __rq_
ASL Example: COOKIES MAKE, I SHOW YOU WANT I. WHY? FUN MAKE PLUS EAT WILL YOU!

ENGLISH Examle: I want to show you how to make cookies. I want to show you because making cookies is fun plus you get to eat them!


Visual Aids

Students will need to provide class with at least one visual aid. Keep in mind visual aids are meant to enhance presentations, not take away from them. Do not use your aids to eliminate signs points will be deleted for this. Use them as you would during an oral presentations. Power points, poster boards, props, pictures and handouts, are all good visual aids. However, I strongly suggest using a power point. Whenever you provide a written word you must also sign it. Explain how these visual aids are helpful and benefit the audience.

This will be due entirely the day and time of your presentation.

Class Information and lectures updated weekly

September 16, 2011
Chapter 1: Building ASL

Pronouns and using locative space

Supportive Activity:
**Dear Abby**
Vocabulary list

Advice/advise
Idea
Thoughts
Know
Feeling
Express
Opinion
Information
Love
Crazy-about
Heart broken
Respect
Partner
Wife/husband
Boyfriend/girlfriend
Give-up
Lonely
Stressed
Inept
Mistake
Problem
Realize
Need
Conflict
Cruel
Destroy
Hurt
Angry
Commitment
Communication
Desire
Depressed
Eager
Egoistical
Exhausted
Fault
Good-enough
Happen
Affair
Jerk
Respond
Forgive
Suggest
Sympathize
Tend-to
Caution
Patience
Can’t stand it!
Lie
Revenge
Help
Assistance
Can’t

Dear Abby:
I am 37, never married, and have never even dated much. I am quiet, shy, overweight and plain.
•
I have been seeing a man who is 42 years old, and who has also never been married. He has proposed, but I haven't given him an answer because I don't think I really love him. He is very good to me and treats me like a queen, but there is absolutely no spark. (There's also no sex. He's impotent and has no plans to do anything about it.)
My question is: Do I marry him and "settle," just to be married, or do I live the rest of my life alone? Is it better to take this chance and marry my best friend, or should I wait for a Prince Charming who might never arrive?
Please answer this question in the newspaper. I don't want anyone to know I'm such an indecisive fool.

ASL TRANSLATION

DEAR ABBY

I AGE-37 MARRIED NEVER I DATE MUCH NEVER I . I QUIET, SHY, FAT ORDINARY


RECENTLY, I DATE MAN HE AGE-42. HE MARRIED BEFORE NEVER SAME. RECENTLY HE MARRIAGE ASK-ME BUT ANSWER HIM NOT WHY? LOVE HIM I NOT KNOW. HE GOOD TO ME HE TREATS ME QUEEN SAME-SAME BUT SPARK NONE! ALSO SEX NONE AND CL:I (RISE UPWARD) CAN’T HE PLAN HELP HIMSELF NONE.

I ASK, I MARRY HIM ACCEPT SO I MARRIED FINISH OR I LIVE FOREVER ALONE? BETTER ACCEPT CHANCE MARRY MY BEST-FRIEND OR SHOULD WAIT FOR “PRINCE CHARMING” ARRIVE MAYBE NOT?



September 23, 2011
**For Hearing People Only**

Coming soon....

September 26, 2011
**Chapter 2: Building ASL

Key Vocabulary:
Verb
Both
directional
subject
object
catagories
list
itself
vlog

Verb Discussion
Verbs are another common concept in all natural languages. They allow us to explain what it is we are doing. In fact, without verbs, language would cease to exist. Verbs in ASL come in three types: plain, inflecting, and spatial.

Plain VerbsA plain verb is a normal verb in ASL. When using plain verbs the signer must designate the subject and the object. Examples of plain verbs in ASL are
• PLAY, RUN, JUMP, SING, DRINK,EAT, SIT,WALK, JUMP, TALK,POOPING, DIE,READ,SEX,SLEEP, WRITE

Inflecting/DIRECTIONAL VerbsInflecting verbs allow the signer to incorporate the subject and object into the verb in one fluid motion. Examples of inflecting verbs in ASL are
• I-GIVE-YOU, HE-GIVE-ME, and I-TELL-THEM, ASK-ME, HELP-ME, SHOW-YOU, SEND-ME, CHOOSE-ME, PAY ATTENTION-ME, LOOK-AT, PAY-ME,ADVICE-ME.

Spatial VerbsThe last type of verb is a spatial verb. These just allow the signer to 0 or how he or she moved them around. Examples of spatial verbs in ASL are
• PUT-UP and PUT-BELOW, BRING-THERE, CARRY-HERE, MOVE-THERE, GO-THERE, COME-HERE,

Travel Verbs (DIRECTIONAL) PHYSICAL• FLY, GO-TO,RUN-TO, ACCOMPANY

Non Travel Verbs (DIRECTIONAL) NOT PHYSICAL• ADVISE, ASK, LOOK-AT


Midterm How-To

Monday
1. Tyler
2. Tiff
3. Anna
Wednesday
1. Sam
2. Jeff
Jake
Friday
1. Aubrey
2. Becca
3. Megan
4. Catlin
Monday
NO CLASS

Wednesday
1. John
2. Sarah
3. April J.

Friday
1. Jordann
2. Connie
3. Kara

Blog #2: Why Sign?

This is a great clip to watch about sign language and how treasured it is by Deaf people. Please watch this clip carefully. I suggest you watch it in groups and work your way through it. You may either write or sign your response. Students that decide to sign every comment on this blog/vlog will receive extra credit. However, you must sign ALL of the blogs/vlogs assignments to receive this extra credit.

Here is the clip:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WT28OYEqJ0s

I want you to discuss what you understood in this clip (what is being "said", what you feel is the most important message that people should take from this video, and why others should watch it.

If you sign your response it must be at least a minute long.

If you write your comment it needs to be at least a paragraph long.

I look forward to your responses!
~M

Tutor/Textbook Corner #2:How-To Practice

Hello Everyone!

Be sure to post your how-to practice assignment here. You must do a brief how-to presentation to share with the tutor (this is not what you will present in class). An example would be how to brush your teeth (at least 2 minutes). This assignment is due before you attend your tutoring session week 5. It needs to be linked to youtube for quick and easy access for all. Tutoring is available on even weeks as well.Please take advantage of this. The sign up sheet is up and ready!

I look forward to seeing your assignments.

Monica