American Sign Language for Middle School

This is a beginner American Sign Language class that meets one time a week for 25 minutes. Our fall semester starts the week of August 25th and runs through December 21st. You can join anytime. If a class has 0 students it will start from day 1. Message us if you want to find out what day/time a specific class is on.

FALL SEMESTER
Our fall semester starts the week of August 25th and runs through December 21st. You can join anytime, however, the material does build. If a class has 0 students it will start from day 1. Message us if you want to find out what day/time a specific class is on. 

Learn the alphabet, conversational questions, colors, numbers, food, animals, holidays, days of the week, temperature, sports, sentence structure, culture, states etc. in American Sign Language. 

How this ASL class structured?
The teacher instructs the students with a mini lesson, then we open the class up for questions and conversation throughout each session.

How does Ms. Rachel teach?
She will teach through visual representation and demonstration (hand signals). 

She has a fun environment, adapt to the pace of the students’ level and encourage participation. 

The interactive style will vary from direct lectures to games and discussions. At the end of each lesson, she will go around and ask each student to demonstrate what they have learned in class today. 

New Classes Are Always Starting! Message us with any questions. 

Week 1 - Alapahbet 
The first lesson for every language is learning the alphabet. This will lay the foundation to spell words in every topic area moving forward. In addition, we will start with basic activities that incorporate the alphabet (names). They will know how to ask “What is your name?” and be able to say “My name is __.” We'll also discuss the history and culture of ASL names. 

Week 2 - Numbers 
Focusing on numbers will help the class be able to respond back to “How old are you?” Numbers are essential to learn in the beginning lessons. 

Week 3 - Colors- Learning the colors is another beginner topic that is essential. The short-term goal is to be able to talk about least favorite and favorite colors, etc. 

Week 4 - Clothing
One way to incorporate colors is talking about clothing items. Clothing items are used everyday so it is important to know the signs.

Sentence structure will be taught throughout learning the various topics which will be discussed in a conversation about the culture. 

Week 5 - Animals 
A way of keeping students engaged is by discussing fun topics and what student doesn’t like to learn about animals?!

Week 6 - Family
Being able to talk about yourself shows you know about the language. At this point, students will be able to describe who is in their family, their age, what they like and don’t like, etc.

Week 7 - Describing a person- This is a topic that works with sentence structure. It is important that they know how to describe someone and the various parts of a sentence. 

Week 8 - Culture
Examples include how to gain someone’s attention who is Hard of Hearing or Deaf.

REFUNDS
No refunds for group classes because we provide class recordings. Please ensure your learner is verified by Outschool in order to get access to class recordings. Learn more about this here: https://support.outschool.com/en/articles/4063624-learner-verification

If your learner is the only student enrolled in class, kindly let us know 24 hours in advance if you need to cancel the class and we'll provide a refund since there won't be a class recording. For cancellations that are less than 24 hours in advance, we cannot provide a refund.

You can learn more about Outschool's standard refund policy here: https://support.outschool.com/en/articles/4626920-standard-refund-policy-and-refund-eligibility-guidelines

If there is a group class and no students shows up, there will not be a refund because our teachers are still showing up to teach.

We do not offer make up classes for group classes since we have a class recording.

We appreciate you respecting our teachers' time. 

Thank you!