Fashion Show, ASL, Novice Mid
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- Most activities are 30 minutes in duration, unless otherwise specified.
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Fashion Show, Novice Mid
Description:
Students will practice introducing each other, describing clothes, colors, and commands. Students will learn how to describe other individual's physical features.
Proficiency Level:
Novice Mid
Keywords:
Fashion, clothes, color, commands, physical traits, description,
World-Readiness Standards:
Standard 1.1 Students engage in conversations and correspondence in American Sign Language to provide and obtain information, express feelings and emotions, and exchange opinions.
Standard 3.1 Students reinforce and further their knowledge of other disciplines through American Sign Language.
Standard 4.2 Students demonstrate understanding of the nature of culture through comparisons of American Deaf culture and their own.
Idaho Content Standards for World Languages:
COMM 1.1: Interact and negotiate meaning (spoken, signed, written conversation) to share information, reactions, feelings, and opinions
COMM 2.1: Understand, interpret, and analyze what is heard, read, or viewed on a variety of topics.
CLTR 1.2: Explain the relationship between cultural practices/behaviors and the perspectives that represent the target culture’s view of the world.
COMP 2.1: Identify, describe and compare/contrast products and their use in the target culture with the learner’s culture.
NCSSFL-ACTFL Can-Do Statements:
- I can introduce myself and others
- I can describe physical characteristics
- I can provide clues for vocabulary words
- I can fingerspell different words
Materials Needed:
Dry erase markers
Erasers
Warm-up
1, The activity is an ASL fashion show! Students will begin by pairing up (a group of three is fine if there's an odd number of students).
2. Distribute a Fashion Show Checklist as well as a dry erase marker to each student.
3. The students should then take a few minutes to answer the questions about their partner.
4. Then, the fashion show begins! student A walks down the “runway”, while student B introduces and describes student A based upon the questions asked on the checklist.
5. Have all the partners take turns until everyone has introduced someone and has walked down the runway.
Main Activity
1. The main activity is called “Guess Who” students will pair up; if odd number, a group of three is fine.
2. Each student will have a laminated paper with a grid of people, the goal is to play guess who with your partner! By questioning your partner on who the person in the picture is, based on physical descriptions.
3. The person who's turn it is will start asking their partner questions, and will have to narrow it down until they figure out who their partner has chosen on the paper. For example, “Is it a man or woman?”
4. Once they receive a response, they will either mark off all the male/female, or whomever doesn't qualify for their question. Once one round is finished, the students can switch roles and the person asking questions becomes the one who is being asked.
Wrap-up
Talk about the famous Deaf individuals on the Guess Who sheets. Talk about the obstacles they overcame in order to become successful people.
End of lab:
- Read can-do statements and have students evaluate their confidence with cards
- Encourage students to be honest in their self evaluation
- Pay attention, and try to use feedback for future labs!
NCSSFL-ACTFL Can-Do Statements:
- I can introduce myself and others
- I can describe physical characteristics
- I can provide clues for vocabulary words
- I can fingerspell different words