Date: Wednesday and Friday

Course Outline:

Week 1:

Wednesday, April 2, 2007

Course Syllabus; Warm up practice tapes: Catnaps; Ants; Bats; Beagle; Bison.

Friday, April 4, 2007

Practice Tapes: Earthquake Damage, Sudden Snowstorm; Tsunamis; Meeting with a Funeral Director

Week 2: Wednesday, April 9

Practice Tapes: Civil War,  Cultural Geography, Backseat Driving, Interviewing a Prospective Tenant

Friday, April 11

Practice Tapes:  Vision, Brain,Tonsillicitis,  Sole Desire, Otitis Media, Cooling Minor Burns, Opthalmology, Hay Fever

Week 3: Wednesday, April 16

Interpreting in Medical Settings

Friday, April 18

Practice Tapes: Cowering Cur, Little Boy on the Bus; Handyman Blues; Stuff, The Playmate; Creative Dates, Marriage Counseling

Week 4: Wednesday, April 23

Practice Tapes:  Political Reforms; Gallaudet Protest; A New Government, State Government , Freda’s Comments: War & Genocide, Freedom and Democracy, Hope for the Future

Friday, April 25

The Capital Punishment of Hanging, Right to Die, Interpreting in Legal Settings

Week 5 : Wednesday , April 30

Still Talking: Procedural Interactive

Friday, May 2

1^st Videotape test- Academic/Technical due

Handout: “Building Blocks of ASL Storytelling;

ASL Storytelling Techniques & activities

HW: View stories on website -course resources

Week 6: Wednesday, May 7

Still Talking: Informational Interactive, Practice Tapes: View ASL stories, Practice interpret: The Gingham Dress, & The Cracked Pot

Friday, May 9

Still Talking: Persuasive Interactive, Practice Interpret: The Lion’s Whisker, How the Buttierflies Came to Be, The Passing of the Buffalo

HW: Choose a story from 33 Mulitcultural Tales to Tell, record yourself telling this story. Bring your audiotape to class.

Week 7: Wednesday, May 14

Still Talking: Argumentative Interactive, Practice interpret: Stories from audiotapes

Friday, May 16

Interpret stories from audiotapes

Week 8: Wednesday, May  21

Still Tallking: Expository Interactive, Practice Ruby & the Rain Crow, Streams in the Desert, Dinosaur

Friday, May 23   

2nd Videotape Test: Interpreting an ASL Story

Discuss Sign Music, watch videos

Interpreting Music into ASL

HW: Interpreting Music Models (course resource)

Week 9: Wednesday, May 28

Practice Interpreting Music

HW: Select a music and interpret for your final video

Friday, May 30

3rd Final video: “Interpreted Music” perform in class

Week 10: Wednesday, June 4

Final video: Interpreted music, Perform in class

Friday, June 6

Sign up for appts to be posted

Practice Log and Outside Activities Due

Sign up for appts to be posted

Week 11: June 11-13

Individual Student appointments