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ASL 123 - Sentences and Homework Activities #2

Part 1 - Receptive Skills - Homework Sentences #2 Translation

There is a videotape in the lab or you can watch the streamed video at home.

Link to the streamed video

Watch the 7 "chunks" and create a detailed spatial mental map of the story.
You can ask for help with the new vocabulary - but first try to determine the meaning from the context of the sentence. Do NOT use the slow button.  Always watch the video at normal speed.  You can watch as many times as you wish.

 Homework Sentences #2 English translation - 15 pts 

Part 2 - Expressive Skills - Using the New Vocabulary

Use the vocabulary from the ASL 123 Core Vocabulary videotape for SN Unit 11 & 12
and from the ASL Idioms and Expressions 14 - 40 (see below).

Click for examples of mental maps.

Assignment: Select a story and at least 2 characters from a book, play, movie, TV show, etc. or a famous person, and describe what you think would be that character's daily, weekly, and/or monthly routine.  Also describe the characteristics and personalities of at least 2 characters from the story - more if necessary.  At the end of the story ask if the viewer can guess the story you selected. Keep your story brief - no more than 7 minutes.

Homework points:
A mental map or your story - 5  pts
1st draft video/ evaluation form/peer feedback - 10  pts
Final video - 25 pts
Evaluation form, instructor feedback - 5 pts.

Be sure to include in your story:

1. At least 10 personality and characteristic signs.
2. At least 3 compound sentences using three different conjunctions.
3. At least 6 signs from the idioms 14 - 40 (See the list below).
4. At least 2 temporal aspect verb inflection
5. At least 1 distributional aspect verb inflection
6 At least 2 sentences with this SN 11 & 12 structure
    For SN 11: "People think s/he is ____, but really s/he is _____." structure.
    For SN 12: Temporal Sequencing, Time Concepts like BEFORE-EVENT, AFTER, FINISH

Grammar Structures:

Compound Sentences and Conjunctions
Did you miss the class lecture? There is a Power Point on CD in the lab that
shows video of ASL compound sentences and conjunctions.

ASL Conjunctions and their loose translations into English
Keep in mind that these are NOT the verb forms of the sign.

FINISH - then, after that
HIT - come upon, actually occurred,
HAPPEN - then it happened that
WRONG - accidentally, all of a sudden
FRUSTRATE - prevented from succeeding
FIND - discovered that
#OR - or
OTHER - or else, on the other hand, alternatively

Click here for an PEER / FINAL evaluation form.