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PLEASE PRINT THE PAGES IN FILES PRIOR TO CLASS. THANKS.

PLEASE have supplies ready for the 2nd class. (See supply list under supplies.)

Camera is to be on at all times. This is a very interactive class between teacher and all learners. It is also important  that your face and upper body are visible, so the teacher and fellow learners can see everyone signing.


You will be learning beginning American Sign Language (ASL) vocabulary and sentence structure, including proper ASL. We will play games and do fun activities, while learning!  You will also learn details about Deaf culture, Deaf history and the Deaf community from videos, books and from the teacher. Some pages will be screenshot to show materials connected to the lessons. Learners will have a packet in the files to be printed out, or used on a separate device, to follow along with during each class. PLEASE PRINT PRIOR TO FIRST CLASS.  (Either DOCX OR PDF) Some just have words in which learners will be learning how to sign.  Each 55 minute class will involve vocabulary, and knowledge about ASL and the Deaf community, including Deaf history and about Deaf culture. There will be plenty of review each week. We will watch some short videos and listen to some short stories and discuss them in class, related to the information being taught. Learners will go into breakout rooms to practice their ASL vocabulary,  and sentences with one another, as the teacher pops into each "room" to assist, as needed, if the class is large enough. This is a very interactive class between teacher and all learners. 

ASL is a visual language!  Zero previous knowledge is required. Zoom chat will also be utilized for communication. Intermediate and advanced classes will be posted towards the end of the beginning class, so students can sign up for the next level and learn more!

Week 1
Introductions, go through packet, basics to start, book will be read by teacher, reminder to get supplies for next week. Learn Manual Alphabet, culture and history

Week 2
Practice 2-3 letter words, basic hand shapes, culture, arts and crafts--ASL related project, start numbers, culture and history, numbers

Week 3
Practice 4-5 letter words, review, review and continue numbers to 1000, people signs, rule of 9, culture, questioning, sentences, culture and history

Week 4
Practice 6+ letter words, review, animals signs, TTYs, superlatives, sentences, culture and history

Week 5
Practice fingerspelling (f.s), review, food and drink, meet a Deaf dancer and other Deaf people in the entertainment business, name signs, sentences, culture and history

Week 6
Practice and review, home signs, calling 711, clothing and colors, pointing, hearing aids, sentences, culture and history, Hearing Ear Dogs

Week 7 
Practice and review, sports, activities,  agent marker, applause, devices that assist people with hearing loss, history and culture, school for children with hearing loss, sentences, culture and history, ADA, schooling for D/deaf children

Week 8
Calendar, time, seasons, weather, past/present/future, other signs, culture and history, ,body signs, thoughts and feelings, actions, school

We will use Kahoot to review and learn! Kahoot staff says: "You can use Kahoot! as much as you want without any commercial rights when using it in your meetings/groups"


A Place for Grace will be read in class by Author: Jean Davies Okimoto
Permission granted by author: "Please consider this a blanket permission for however and whenever you’d like to use A Place for Grace."
Permission granted to show videos of Lark Detweiler.
Permission granted  to show YouTubes from Dogs for Better Lives (DBL), formally Dogs for the Deaf.
Permission granted to read "Can you Hear a Rainbow?  from Peachtree Publishing Company, Inc.”
ASL Nook: "You have our permission to show our YouTube videos via Zoom to your classes."