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Seattle Central Community College
American Sign Language 122
Barbara Bernstein Fant, Instructor

Extra Credit Assignments (maximum 50 points total)

Need Extra Credit points to boost your homework (Skill Enhancement) points? Please inform me in advance of your intent to do extra credit assignments should you decide to do so.

You have four options of obtaining extra credit. They are as highlighted below:

a) Receptive Translations (translation & self-evaluation = 10 points).

There are three extra-credit receptive translations to help you improve your receptive skills. Each assignment will be a total of 10 points each. Record; translate the story and then see me for a self assessment of the narrative you have translated. You can find the tapes in the lab in the lab cabinet under the ASL 102 section. Ask the lab assistant to pull out the specific videotape for you. You should wait until you have learned the core vocabulary for each unit before attempting to translate the narratives.

The Receptive Translation titles are:

                  1. SN Unit 8 - "My College Roommate's Family" - Barb Bernstein
               2. SN Unit 9 - " My Old Job" - Lance Forshay
               3. SN Unit 9 - "A Comedy of Errors" - Clyde Vincent

b) Community Contact Events (1 hour = 20 points)
Follow the guidelines as listed for the Community Contact Assignments link under my Course Resources web page. Each hour = 20 points. Minimum: 1 page typed.

c) Deaf Culture Videotapes (1 hour = 5 points)
Type a minimum of 1- 2 pages for each topic. All videotapes are on reserve in the Media Center in the Library and in the ASL/ITP Lab. You must schedule time to view these videotapes on campus either in the ASL/ITP lab or the media center. The names of the videotapes are listed below.

You will need to watch the video and include in your report the following:

Title of the videotape
What was the main focus of the video? Highlight 3 main issues or problems depicted in the video.
What concerns or reactions do you have regarding these issues?
In 3-4 sentences what did you learn from the video or what misconceptions were erased for you?
also, please include your responses to additional questionnaires below

(***Be sure to answer additional questions listed under each videotape title and include them in your report also.)

IMPORTANT NOTE: If you have already been assigned one of the below titles as a class requirement, please select another videotape that you have not viewed yet.

1. Using Your TTY/TDD - Many of you will have or have had a Deaf teacher, or you will make friends with one. After viewing this movie I would like you to call someone (deaf or hearing) using the relay service. SCCC has two TTY pay phones if you want to try calling from a TTY (can you locate them?). Calling the relay service is easy - simply dial 7-1-1, give the number you wish to call and type the message. Write about your experience in your journal.

2. American Deaf Culture: The Deaf Perspective - Part Three - Deaf Literature - Before you watch the video write down a brief paragraph about what you envision "Deaf Literature" to be like - what kinds of format, what kinds of content, or what kinds of purpose. Did your vision change after watching the video?

3. American Deaf Culture: The Deaf Perspective - Part Four - Deaf Minorities (WARNING - I suggest that you use the best copy we have of this video. It is VT Culture #81 in the ASL LAB - use the tape without the word "copy" on it.) a) What issues do Deaf people from other minorities group have to contend with that White Deaf people don't have to contend with? and b) In terms of self-identity, how do Deaf people from other minority groups perceive themselves?

4. 20/20 Bob and Michelle Smithdas - a) What did you think about the story of this Deaf-Blind couple? and b) How does technology affect their independence?

d) Deaf Culture textbooks (located in the ASL Lab, Rm 1129. You can sign out the book for 4 days at a time.)
(100 pages = 20 points)

Read at least 100 pages minimum and submit a typed report of no less than 2 pages. What was the author's intent of this text? What main topics/themes were discussed? What are your thoughts and reactions to the author's point of view? Do you agree or disagree? Suggested titles are listed below:

A Deaf Adult Speaks Out by Leo Jacobs

Deaf Like Me by Thomas Spradley

A Loss for Words: The Story of Deafness in a Family by Lou Ann Walker

A Place of Their Own: Creating the Deaf Community in America by John Van Cleve

Language in Motion by Jerome Schein

Sign Me Alice & Laurent Clerc: A Profile by Gil Eastman