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ASL 123 - American Sign Language Level Three
Barb Bernstein Fant, Instructor
NEWS
AND UPDATES
Updated
June 08, 2009
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!
June 8th:
1. Reminder: Idioms Homework, part 1 and 2 - have already
been turned in on various due dates. I have posted the Answer
Key for both assignments so I will not accept any late homework for
these two assignments.
2) This is the last full week of classes. This Wednesday is
your last day to turn in all Community Contact hours reports
and any other remaining late homework. No exceptions
will be made.
3) I still have your Signing Naturally workbooks and I know
that SN Unit 12 worksheet is due today. My apologies! I will
postpone the due date for these worksheets until this Wednesday.
4. Please, please check your grades on the Grade sheet
this week and make sure I have entered all homework points and
grades accurately. Do not wait until next week during
finals to inform me! To date, I have not entered the homework
points for Children Of A Lesser God movie report - I am not
certain if I returned them to you by mistake. If so, please
return that assignment to me tonight!
5) We will have at least two guest speakers for next Monday evening.
These women are either hearing or deaf mothers of Deaf children and
questions will tie in with what you have read in "The Signing
Family" text. I want you to take a few minutes and write down
1 - 2 questions now that you would like to ask these panelists and
turn it in to me tonight.
May 27th:
1. Idioms Homework, part 1 and 2 - have already been turned in
on various due dates. I plan to post the Answer key for
both next Monday after class. This means that I will
not accept these particular assignments as late homework
after June 1st.
2) Due to being out of town for over 10 days, I am still grading
your Expressive Assignment #1 videos. The videos will be
returned to you next Monday. Thank you for your
patience.
3) Barbara, the sub teacher informed me that quite a few students
were absent from last Wednesday's class. This means some of
you have missed grammar practice with Temporal Aspect as well as
part of Unit 12 on Daily Routines (Time Sequencing grammar).
In regards to your remaining Expressive Assignments, keep in mind
that I am placing more grade weight and homework points on
your ability to demonstrate ASL grammar correctly.
May 13th:
1. Reminder about next Monday: Wear dark, solid-colored tops
since our Deaf-blind speaker has limited vision and needs to see
your hands clearly. Be sure to meet in Room 1114 that evening!
Pat Cave will start speaking at 7:10 pm until 9 pm. I
will allow you to use this event towards your
Community Contact Hours (40 points total)
with the understanding that your typed report must be turned
in no later than Wednesday, May 27th (no exceptions).
May 11th:
1. Tonight, you will be recording your Expressive Assignment in lab.
Instruction 3) F
states that while you record, you will have a partner watch your
story and interrupt when necessary and afterwards, each student
would need to write down their own self-evaluation on the second
evaluation form. Due to the fact that we will be
recording the Deaf Culture video "Children Of A Lesser God" during
lab time, we will have a time crunch since it will take two hours to
record the whole film. Therefore, I am dropping this
particular instruction
for this assignment only.
Don't forget that on Wednesday, class will meet in the lab as well
to record the "Children" film for the remaining students who need to
record onto their videotapes. If you can, please get
together with other classmates on your own time and share the same
video to cut down on recording time.
2) Since we will have a Deaf-Blind speaker coming in next Monday
evening, please remember to wear a dark, solid-colored top
that contrasts your skin color such as black, navy blue, dark brown,
dark green, etc. Please come to room 1114 instead of
going to lab next Monday night.
May 6th:
1) The second Deaf Culture video
"Children Of A Lesser God"
will be given as an out-of-class assignment due to time constraints.
Be sure to bring a videotape for next Monday and Wednesday's class -
we will record the 2-hour film during class time so that you can
view it at home. Therefore go straight to lab on both class
days. 2)
I will be out of town the week of May 18th - 20th and will be
bringing in a sub teacher for these two days. I will be
consulting on the filming of a new DVD to go with the ASL Phrase
Book, 3rd edition that was published last year. During my absence,
hopefully I will have a Deaf-Blind speaker come to either of the two
classes. Because of the sub teacher, I have pulled the
Vocabulary Quiz # 2 back one week earlier so that I can be
here to give you the quiz. In that case, the next quiz on Core
Vocabulary Unit 10 and Idioms 1 - 13 will be next Wednesday.
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. 4)
New info: The ASL 123 M and W gradesheet has been posted.
Please check the gradesheet frequently to check your progress and
also to make certain all homework points and/or grades have been
entered. If not, return the assignment to me so that I can
revise the grade sheet. Also, check to see if your Class ID (it's
not the same as your student ID!) has been calculated correctly.
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; Compound Signs
Lexicalized Fingerspelling and Food Signs (the last 3 items
are from ASL 122). The next 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 ASL 121 and 122.
April 6 - 8th:
1a) The Student Network List is ready (in
Course Resources page)
for the M/W class.
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.
1b) My instructor
adhesive labels are also ready - please do not lose that
information. It has my email and website address on it.
2)
Purchase your required text 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.
3) We will have lab on Mondays during the quarter
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.
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.
4) Community contact hours
- Get started 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 you need to have a signing
conversation with Deaf people for at
least 15 minutes or more while you observe an event. Review the Community
Contact hours link in my Course Resources web page.
I will be setting 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)
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 the
Web Schedule and Assignment Due Dates
pages and
have both finished by the end of Week 2.
6) Anyone need to
register for this class? Please see me during break and make
sure you have your registration sheet ready for me to sign.
For students transferring from other colleges, remember you need to
have a 2.0 grade or above from your ASL 2 class in order to take ASL
123.
7)
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 123 section within the next two - three weeks.
8) The NO VOICING rule is to be maintained during class and during breaks. You have enough sign vocabulary and will continue to acquire more signs to carry on a decent conversation and this will give you both receptive and expressive practice at the same time. You are only in this classroom for a total of 5 hours so frankly, that's not a lot of time. If you must talk, please do so outside the classroom. If I catch any student talking and being disruptive during a class activity, I will ask that person to leave and return at the next class section.
9)
NO CELL PHONES! Keep them off!
Websites for your perusal:
a. Some of you may have seen the ABC World News on the Gallaudet
University protest on the selection of the new president to replace King
Jordan this past spring of 2007. Here are some websites for you to explore
further....
i
Gallaudet
University
has a new president - and a new protest: here are some links -
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/05/02/AR2006050200568.html
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=5374451
http://www.gallypreswatch.com/comments.php?c=4
NAD
response and rationale
- May 3, 2006
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=5388933
May 6, 2006
Letter
to campus from Jane Norman - May 5, 2006
Washington
Post article - May 7, 2006
b.
If you want more information on Thomas Tranchin, the deaf boy in
" For A Deaf Son"... here is the website address:
http://www.thetactilemind.com/weekly/archives/ttmw38.text
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.