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Seattle
Central Community College
ASL 122- American Sign Language Level 2
Barb Bernstein Fant, Instructor
NEWS
AND UPDATES
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Check the
Schedule web page for frequent updates or
changes to your assignments or what has been taught in class that day
and secondly, the
News and Updates
page constantly for any announcements during and outside of class
time!
In case of
inclement weather and possible class cancellations,
go to
www.seattlecolleges.org home page and clink on the link for
inclement weather.
If a class has to be cancelled due to inclement weather, be sure to
click on my News and Updates page to get any special announcements
regarding homework.
****It is your responsibility to check
the ASL 122 Grade Sheet constantly during the quarter to see that the assignments that you have already
turned in are getting recorded. If you feel that I have overlooked
an assignment, please return the paperwork to me so that I can be sure
to document that information. Please hold on to all assignments
that I give back to you for the entire quarter in case I
accidentally do not record homework points or grades. Do not
wait until the end of the quarter to detect a mistake!
March
16th -19th:
1) Reminder:
This is the last full
week of classes! It's countdown time! All CC reports and any late homework are due no later
than this Wed or Thurs.
2) Grammar Quiz is due
next Monday or Tuesday. You should have received your handout last
Wed. or Thurs.
3) Mon/Wed class:
I am seriously thinking of pulling back the RT Final to this Wed after
you take your fourth quiz. I'll discuss that tonight.
For both classes:
The signer for the final is Mizzy Geitz - the same person who
signed the Homework Sentences #2 video. Review all 122 RTs and
core vocabulary from this past quarter.
It was decided tonight
(3-16-09) that the RT final for the M/W class will remain on the
original date, the 23rd.
4) Please register for
ASL 123 asap. Remember you can pay your tuition on a monthly
basis.
March
9th -12th:
1) We only have two full weeks of classes left thus the winter quarter
is winding down. Several items for you to keep in mind:
a) The remainder of the
web schedule and the Assignments Due Dates page have been finalized so
please pay very close attention to due dates! I have thrown
out a couple of requirements such as RT #6 and peer evaluations for
Expressive Assignment #3 due to time constraints. Deadline
for all Community Contact hours and any late homework is March
17th or 18th. No exceptions will be made!
b) Instead of bringing in a Deaf-Blind speaker, I will have a couple of
guest speakers for both M/W and T/TH classes on Monday and Tuesday,
March 16th and 17th. The speakers are Deaf and come from
predominantly oral backgrounds so it will be interesting to hear about
their life and educational backgrounds and compare them to the Deaf
Again text. I plan on having a Deaf-Blind speaker come to my ASL 3
classes instead.
c) Culture and Grammar
Questionnaire (5% of your class grade) - I am still working on this.
I will pass this out hopefully at the next class section and this will
be a take-home assignment.
d) There will be no
Spontaneous Dialogue final but instead another Expressive Assignment
which will cover Units 8 and 9.
2) Registration for ASL 123 is
now taking place. If you plan to register, please do it as soon as
possible. The college district is going through some very severe
budget restrictions and this could affect our ASL classes if enrollment
is too low.
Please be aware that the
Registration Office has implemented a new payment policy in which you
can pay for your tuition on a monthly basis instead of a lump sum.
3) The Tuesday/Thursday class
will be having their Receptive Translation Final on Thursday, March 19th
which is one class section before the actual Final Exams week, due to
the fact that there are two other instructors having to use the lab on
Tuesday the 24th.
Added March 11th:
4) Culture and Grammar quiz will just be focusing on ASL grammar portion
only (Basic ASL
Sentence Types). The
Deaf Culture part will be postponed to ASL 3. Since this is a
take-home, open-book quiz, you can work with your classmates on this
assignment but your
sentence examples must
be your own! For instance, I will ask you what non-manual
grammatical signs/prosody are used with WH-questions and then ask you to
give me an example of a WH-question in
ASL glosses/sign order.
January 26th - 29th:
1) The Student Network List and the ASL 122 Winter 2009 ASL Grade sheet
have been set up for each section. You can find both links in the
Course Resources Page. Please refer to the paragraph (green)
regarding your responsibilities re: the grade sheet.
2) The Assignment Due
Dates have been set up for January and February assignments. I am
still fine tuning the due dates for March assignments.
3) Tues/Thurs
section only - starting this Thursday, go to room 3209 and not 4138.
We will use room 3209 for Thursday classes for the rest of this quarter.
Don't forget!
January 5th - 8th:
1)
Community Contact Hours:
As spelled out in your
syllabus, you will be required to do 5 hours of Community Contact
observation again this quarter and you have until the end of this
quarter to turn in your reports for those 5 hours.
However, I strongly encourage you to turn in your CC reports early
instead of waiting until the end of this quarter.
I will post an
optional
due date for your first
Community Contact report for the end of this month on my Assignment Due
Dates page.
Even better,
turn in your CC
reports as soon as you have attended an event. For
students who transferred to SCCC this quarter, the community contact
events are posted on the ASL/ITP Lab bulletin board next to room 1129.
Get an early start on your CC hours if possible.
For homework instructions,
click on the link for
Community Contact Events under my Course Resources page.
2)
New Students: For
students who have not taken ASL 121 with me, be sure to check my
ASL 121-123 Home webpage and review the General Resources information
on the same page as
well as reviewing my ASL 101 website.
You
may find some of these resources helpful.
For all students,
please
navigate my ASL 102 website and become familiar with all my web pages
and links this week. Remember I will be
giving you instructor information adhesive labels with my email and
website
address this week so please don't not lose that information.
For the time being, my web address is
www.seattlecentral.edu/faculty/bbernstein and then click on
ASL 102 in the left margin of my Course Home page.
3)
Web schedule:
for the entire winter quarter
is not ready. It should be finished by the end of the 2nd week so
I ask for your patience. When you check my web schedule,
just pay attention to this
week's information.
I have already included some homework assignments for you to get started
on such as your Community Contact hours, your text (Deaf Again)
assignments and to be studying your Core Vocabulary for Unit 6 and CR
1-6. The due dates for these particular assignments are
highlighted in red.
4)
ASL/ITP Lab:
We will have lab on Mondays and Tuesdays (depending
on which class section you are in) beginning
next week.
Make sure you have your SCCC
student ID ready for next week's lab - you will need it for
the entire quarter! When you register for an ASL
class at SCCC, you should have paid lab fees and obtained a student
ID as well.
Always bring two videotapes to lab weekly,
the 1st to keep
all of your receptive assignments together and the 2nd for your
expressive homework.
When you are
not using these videotapes, leave them on them on my lab shelf
designated for your specific class section
to save carting them
around. You may not
need the 2nd video if your computer can access the streamed videos
on my website. That means you will just record your
expressive assignments only during lab time.
All
assigned videos
with the exception
of Deaf Culture
videotapes and those for extra credit are streamed therefore accessible
via my website.
5)
Absences:
Should you be absent on a certain
class day, say on Monday or Wednesday, you can join the other class
section on Tuesday or Thursday
to get more or less caught up. Please let me know in advance
if this happens.
Please don't do this often! Both class sections will not be up to
par on lecture materials due to the two holidays occurring on Mondays
this quarter.
6) Students who took my ASL
121 class last quarter will find their videotapes on my lab shelf under
the assigned class section. I will return all ASL 121
homework to you asap.
7) Need to add this
class? See me during break.
8) As in ASL 121, please
adhere to the NO VOICING rule during class time. Leave it outside
the classroom! You will only be allowed to use your voices when I
give you permission to do so.
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