ASL 123 - Final Expressive Story
Purpose:
- To demonstrate your ability to produce the grammatical and functional structures introduced in ASL 3.
- To demonstrate your ability to produce a cohesive story of your own creation.
Directions:
Use the video clip that is assigned to you as the basis for your story.
You can add any context you wish to the video clip.
Keep your story under three minutes. Time yourself.
Be prepared to sign your story in class on the assigned day.
Submit a completed video by the assigned date and time.
I encourage you to use any resources available to
you to brainstorm, strategize, and prepare your story.
***There
will be no peer review nor videotaping of a rough sign draft done. Two
days
prior to the
expressive final,
you will be divided into groups and assigned a story and you can brainstorm with
students in your assigned group
outside of class time
for ideas for your narrative or work alone if you wish.
I
encourage you to use any resources available to you to brainstorm, strategize,
and prepare your story.
This will be a
spontaneous dialogue meaning on the day of recording, you will be seated
with an assigned partner from a different group with a different story and you
tell each other about your video clip
(i.e. sharing with
your partner the "movie" you saw last night).
But while practicing outside of
class time, do not discuss your story with classmates
not in your
group.When
it is time to record, I will assign you a partner and each of you must use
appropriate response behavior, i.e. asking for clarification, correcting your
partner's fingerspelling or sign errors, using confirming behavior to show
comprehension, etc while taping.
If you need to see the video again, click your group name.
Videos:
Here are the structures we learned this quarter.
Grammatical Components
Core vocabulary – SN Units 10 - 12
Idioms and expressions in ASL
Prosodic features: intensity and character
Aspect Inflections: temporal and distributional
Numbers - cardinals 1 to 1 billion / movement features 67-98
Sentence Structures - rhetorical questions / conjunctions and compound sentences
/ relative clauses
Functional Components
Describing family and relationships / sibling
ranking
Describing occupations
Describing personalities and characteristics
Describing typical routines
Evaluation:
I will be evaluating your stories
with the assumption that you sincerely and earnestly worked on your story.
Specifically I will be looking at:
- sign production,
- use of grammar structures,
- use of functional structures,
-
use of space
and non-manual signals,
- use of classifiers
- flow, pace, and rhythm of the story.
Keep in mind that this assignment is worth 20% of your total grade. Don’t procrastinate. Invest your time and energies into this assignment.