Unit 5

1. Unit 5

2. WH-Word QUESTION- WHEN • To ask a “when” question do the following • Name the activity with raised eyebrows • Ask WHEN • Lowered Eyebrow • Lean forward • Hold the last sign

3. WH-WORD QUESTION- WHAT A PERSON DID OR WILL DO • TO ASK A “WHAT ONE WILL DO QUESTION DO THE FOLLOWING: • Name the day with raised eyebrows • Ask what person will do or did 1. Lower eyebrows • Lean head forward • Hold the last sign

4. Establish Tense • Time signs usually occur at the beginning of a sentence to establish the tense. • If the time sign is not established, assume that the events described are in the present tense

5. Agreement Verbs • An agreement verb is a verb that indicates the subject (person doing the action) and the object (person receiving the action) in its movement. • Show • Give • Ask • Tell • Take • Throw

6. Designating Locations for Non-Present People • If you want to talk about more than 2 people that are not present, you can designate a location for each person in an horizontal arc in front of you starting on your non-dominant side. • When discussing each person, be sure to • Orient the signs toward their designated location • Use the correct personal pronouns and possessive adjectives with the location

7. DID YOU REALIZE? • A DEAF baseball player named William Ellsworth Hoy brought had signals to the major leagues in the late 1800’s. When Hoy was at bat, he had his third base coach use the hand signals to tell him the pitching count. It caught on with the umpires and fans and to this day the same signals are used to call balls and strikes.

8. Are You Done • To answer negatively to “Are you done…?” • Use the sign “NOT YET” with a negative head shake. • To respond affirmativly use the sign “FINISH” with a positive head shake.

9. Sequencing Activities • To sequence TWO activities do the following • Use different locations in your signing space to represent each activity and orient signs about the activity towards that space • Use the sign “finish” to transition from one activity to the next • Make use the movement of the verb “to go” shows agreement with the activities established locations • Rais you eyebrows and head at the beginning of the transition sign • Lower your head at the end of the sign

10. Tell About An Out of the Ordinary Activity • To tell about something that is not part of your usual routine, do the following • Use the transitional sign “1” with raised eyebrows • Tell what happened • Tell who you did the activity with (pural pronouns if needed) • Tell what you did (use details) • Comment on your experience

11. Plural Pronouns • Plural pronouns indicate the number of people that did something together. To use a plural pronoun: • Name the other person ( my friend, my sister, my parents) • Use the corresponding plural pronoun to represent them and yourself. • Two of us • Three of us • Four of us • Five of us • All of us (for more than 5 people)

12. Commonly Fingerspelled Words • Fingerspell proper nouns ( names of people and places) • Some words have been “borrowed” from English and are commonly fingerspelled in ASL. There are 2 categories for the words. • Short easy to fingerspell words • Specific kinds in a group • Types of breads (white, wheat, rye) • Kinds of housing (duplex, flat, ranch) • Types of materials ( nylon, cotton, polyester)

13. Did You Realize?? • That signing villages once existed in America? For more than 100 years in certain villages on Martha’s Vineyard, an island off Cape Cod, as many as 1 out of 25 people were Deaf (Compared to 1 in 6000 on the mainland) and all the inhabitants, Deaf or hearing used sign language.

14. Clayton Valli (1951-2003) • Valli studied ASL poetry focusing on rhyme, rhythm, and meter found in ASL poetry. • Valli’s studies helped ASL poetry become recognized as a genre of literature. • Some his best know works are: • “Dandelion” • “Snowflake” • “Lone Sturdy Tree”