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High School American Sign Language II

Suggested Prerequisites

American Sign Language 1

Description

Continue your journey through the worlds of EARth and EYEth. Now it’s time to level up. Communication is our compass—whether you’re navigating directions you just received to downtown or classifiers, or you’re deciphering ASL literature—you’ll enjoy the journey. So, grab a snack, and maybe a drink too, and let’s dive in!

Module 1: Daily Life

-Morning and evening routines

-Daily school routine and school schedule

-Needs of deaf students in the classroom

-After-school activities including jobs, volunteering, and other activities

-The importance of DPN in the Deaf community

-Glossing sentences in ASL

-Recurring time signs

-Durative time signs


Module 2: Home Sweet Home

-Locative classifiers

-Signer's perspective

-Mouth morphemes

-Noun-verb pairs

-Describing rooms and objects in your home

-Deaf movements, organization, and acts important for Deaf advocacy


Module 3: Meet the Family

-Possessive adjectives and pronouns

-Important Deaf authors and literature

-Family and life events

-Types of ASL literature and folklore

-Pronouns

-Plural pronouns

-Signing age


Module 4: Healthy Living

-Describe a doctor’s visit

-The Rule of 9

-Body part classifiers

-Order from a restaurant menu

-Describe food preferences

-Glossing sentences in ASL

-Negation

-Facial expressions

-Role shifting

-Hundreds and thousands

-Showing height


Module 5: City LifeServices and places in cities

-Give directions

-Community issues and projects

-The role and importance of ASL interpreters in society

-Rural and urban community life for the Deaf and hard of hearing

-Maps and Intersections

-Deaf puns


Module 6: Into the Future

-The future tense

-Travel planning for the Deaf community

-Post-secondary education and career plans

-Post-secondary education and career opportunities in the Deaf community

-Famous Deaf people

-Touch and Touch Finish

-Experience and Experience Finish

-Cost in ASL