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SCHEDULE

NEWS AND UPDATES

LECTURE NOTES

COURSE RESOURCES
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ASSIGNMENTS

ASSIGNMENT DUE DATES

Seattle Central Community College
ASL 123 - American Sign Language Level Three
Barb Bernstein Fant, Instructor

Welcome to ASL 123! This page is used for announcements, schedule changes, community contact events, etc. Check here often. If you would like to announce an event, send it to me and I will post it.

** 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!

***Once the ASL 123 Grade Sheet is posted, it is your responsibility to check the 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!

April 27th - 30th:
1. The Student Network List has been updated. Please check to make sure there are no errors with your personal information. 2. Don't forget next Monday's vocabulary quiz will be on Units 1 - 9 Core vocabulary as well as on Food, Compound and Lexicalized Fingerspelling Signs. Study your FS and numbers as well. 3) The ASL Tutoring schedule for this quarter has been posted. Keep in mind you can use 3 hours of tutoring time towards your Community Contact requirement.

April 20th - 22nd:
1. During the syllabus discussion last Wed regarding the vocabulary quizzes, I originally said that there will be four quizzes; the first three on each unit and the last quiz would be cumulative (Units 10 - 12). I have had second thoughts and I have made changes to reflect that the first quiz would be based on Core Vocabulary Units 1 - 9 including the CR 1-6 vocabulary and the last three quizzes will be on Units 10, 11 and 12 respectively. You will still be responsible for studying the ASL Idioms as well. The first quiz is not until the Monday of the 5th week so you will have ample time to study the vocabulary from Units 1 - 9.

April 7th - 10th:

1) The Student Network List for both classes have been revised. Be sure to check the list to make certain your information is correct. If not, please let me know. 2) Tonight in lab, students will be working on Receptive Translation #1. For new students who are transferring from elsewhere to this class, be sure to click on a) Mental Map Instructions and b) Mental Map Examples in the Course Resources page under the Receptive Assignments sub-heading and review tonight. When viewing any receptive translation in lab, jotting down a mental map is the first step before doing a complete English translation outside of lab time. Also, please review c) Receptive Translations Instructions under the same sub-heading and familiarize yourself with these instructions for all Receptive Translation assignments.

March 31st - April 3rd:

1) The ASL 103 Grade sheet will be posted under the Course Resources web page for each course section beginning Week 3. You will need to use a formula in order to figure out your class ID number. Make sure your information is accurate once your homework is returned and let me know if any homework credit or grade is missing. Please hold on to all your homework paperwork for the entire quarter in case I may have to ask for them back.

2) The Student Network List is ready (in Course Resources page) for both M/W and T/TH sections. Please check your information to make sure it's correct and report any errors to me.    After I pass the Student Contact sheet around tonight, I will update both class sections to show more accurate information.   My instructor adhesive labels are also ready - please do not lose that information. It has my email and website address on it.

3) On my web schedule, I have set up some due dates for certain assignments such as: The Signing Family, RT #1 translation, 1st community contact report, etc. I want to give you a head start while I work on my links for both the web schedule and Assignment Due Dates and Quizzes and have both finished by the end of Week 2.

4) We will have lab on Mondays during the quarter. 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. 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. Just about all the videos you will be watching this quarter are streamed with the exception of the Deaf Culture videos.   All Deaf Culture Videos will be shown in class unless otherwise informed.

5) Get started on your community contact hours now and turn your reports in as soon as you can. You can use the same places i.e. Starbucks, Jillian's that you attended last quarter however make more effort to communicate with Deaf people as much as possible.   Review the Community Contact hours link in my Course Resources web page. I've set up some optional dates for your Community Contact reports to turn in earlier if you wish. It's not required but strongly encouraged. Once you have attended a community event, then type up the report and turn it in promptly. You don't even have to wait until the optional dates for turning them in. The other option would be to turn in all Community Contact reports on the last due date of the quarter. See my web schedule for due dates.

5) In my Lectures web page, I will be posting a link called "Grammar Notes for the Quarter" - it gives you a very brief review of the grammar we will cover this quarter. Please keep in mind that you are welcome to burn copies of the individual grammar CDs that I will use in class throughout the quarter. The CDs will be placed in the ASL cabinet under the 103 section within the next two - three weeks.

6) Purchase your books this week and get started on "The Signing Family" text, part 1. Again, refer to the link in my Course Resources web page for questions for each part.

7) Study groups are optional but strongly encouraged. You can get together with classmates to review what you've learned in class, go over ASL vocabulary and work on your receptive and expressive assignments together. I will make one suggestion here - try to become more independent and work alone especially with Receptive Translation stories as a way of improving your receptive skills.   During the syllabus and web discussion next Monday or Tuesday, I will give students an opportunity to talk about setting up groups and where to meet. The Student Network List in my Course Resources web page is set up for that purpose.

8) Late Assignment Sheet: You can use this form for only 1 late assignment - please read the instructions on that sheet for clarification. The beauty of this sheet is that you can turn in any one assignment and get full homework credit provided you did the assignment correctly. I would suggest you use the Late Assignment sheet for high point assignments like Receptive Translations, Expressive Assignments first if needed before you think of using it for an assignment with less points. This sheet will be passed out during syllabus/web discussion next week.

c. Another link for the Deaf Culture Film "Sound and Fury" - very interesting to discover what the respective Artinian families have done 3 years later after the filming. The new link is http://www.handsandvoices.org/articles/misc/V8-4_soundfury.htm.