DCHS American Sign Language Club

DCHS American Sign Language Club 1st Meeting August 20, 2012 Mrs. Alexander

What’s up today! • Welcome Back! • Officer Nominations • Website • Lesson 1 • New vocabulary • Story • Practice • Review Game • Next time…

WELCOME BACK!!! • Dues- NOT mandatory • BUT - Will get you a discount on shirts, field trips, etc. • Video/Picture permission forms • T-Shirt Designs-please submit • Start thinking about fundraisers • Look for opportunities for signing! • Captioned Movie • ASL Days • Song Challenge

Officer Nominations • Need nominations for President, Vice President, Secretary and Treasurer • To be President or Vice President you must be a junior or senior this year • Must have a C or higher in all classes • Must be able to attend all meetings and officer meetings • Voting will take place next meeting 8/27/12

Web Site • http://dctigers.com

Lesson 1: Introductions • Sign Language Alphabet • New Vocabulary • Introduction Story • Practice Cards with partner

Sign Language Alphabet

AGAIN Handshape: Right hand = "bent-hand" Left hand = "flat hand"Location: Neutral signing area in front of the bodyPalm Orientation: Right hand = starts facing up or at a "10 o'clock" position. Left hand = varies: palm up, palm right, or "neutral 2 o'clock position" Movement: Right hand moves in an arc until the fingertips touch the left palm.Non-Manual Marker: neutral

DEAF Handshape: index fingerLocation: Starting location: In general it starts on the cheek near the ear but occasionally you will see it start near the mouth (on the cheek). Ending location: On the cheek near the mouth.Orientation: If done with the right hand, the right palm can face either left or somewhat forward.Movement: Small arc.Variation: If you do this sign while puffing out the cheek, with a larger arc it means, "Deaf, and proud of it!"Description: Touch your finger on your cheek near your ear, then move your finger in a small arch and touch it near the mouth. Remember, start and end the sign on the cheek. Do not do it on the ear or mouth, but rather near them.

HEARING The movement is a small rotation. Up, forward, down, and back. Repeat twice. Think of words tumbling forth from the mouth.

WHAT Handshape: Both right and left hands in a "five" handshape. Fingers and thumb spread, relaxed, (not straight)Location: Mid-torso, in front of you, a foot or so apart from each other. Orientation: You palms are facing up. Movement: Each hand moves horizontally outward and back in a couple of times. The movement is only a couple of inches at most.Non-Manual Marker: "wh" furrowed eyebrows.

LEARN • Start with by grabbing from your open palm and end holding it by at your forehead

STUDENT The sign for "student" is a combination of the sign "learn" and the non-initialized sign for "person." Hold your "non-dominant") hand out flat, palm facing upward. Take your dominant hand and grab some imaginary information off of your palm. Lift that information up and stick it in your head. Then show the person sign.

LIKE • Start with an open sideways ‘8’ hand-shape starting at your chest, then pulling outwards closing it like you are pinching

MEET (meet you) uses the movement direction of the dominant hand to establish who is meeting whom. Notice how the dominant hand (the right hand for right handed people) moves from me toward you. The non-dominant hand (the left hand for right handed people) is held away from the body. The right hand "meets" the left hand. (It is the opposite for left handed people.) You do NOT need to add the signs "I" or "YOU." This one sign includes that information already

NAME Handshape: "H" handshape on both hands.Movement: Tends to be a double movement (but a single movement is also common).Non-Manual Marker: In general this uses a neutral facial expression. In the sentence "What is your name?" signed as NAME YOU? (Wh-question expression) you furrow the eyebrows and tilt the head forward a bit.

TEACHER The sign TEACHER starts with both hands held up near the head in somewhat "flattened O" hand-shapes.Then both hands move forward about six inches. Then they change into "flat hands" (like "B" hand-shapes with the thumb alongside--not draped over the palm) and move downward to show a version of the PERSON sign. Thus you have a combination of TEACH + PERSON = teacher. Memory aid: Take information from your head and put it in the other person's head.

NICE The sign for "nice" or "clean" is made by placing your left hand in front of you, palm up and moving the flat palm of your right hand across your left hand. (If you are right handed).

MEAN (meaning)

SIGN Form both hands into "1" hand shapes. Then draw a couple of large circles in the air with the tip of each index finger. The movement for each hand is: up, back, down, forward, and so on in an alternating circular movement. As if pedaling a bicycle backwards. Both hands move at the same time. When the right hand is up, the left hand is down. When the right hand is forward, the left hand is back.

THANK-YOU The sign for "thank you" is made by starting with the fingers of your dominant hand near your lips. Your hand should be a "flat hand." Move your hand forward and a bit down in the direction of the person you are thanking. Smile (so they'll know you mean it).

UNDERSTAND • Hand-shape at the beginning of this sign: The index finger is bent and the tip of the index finger is touching the pad of the thumb (your thumbprint). • Hold the right hand up near your forehead. Then flick the index finger so that it points up.

WHERE The sign for "where" is made using your index finger. Hold your hand in front of you and "waggle" the finger side to side a couple of times. Imagine yourself looking at a map on the wall. You put your finger on the map and move your fingertip a bit to the left then a bit to the right as you try to finger out "where" you are on the map.

WHO • Place the tip of the right thumb on their chin and extend the index finger. The index finger is then "fluttered" up and down a couple times by bending and unbending it at the middle knuckle.

WHY The middle finger and sometimes both the middle finger and the ring finger "wiggle" a couple times.

YES/NO YES The right "S" hand represents the nodding of your head. Raise and lower your fist, bending at the wrist NO ‘Three’ hand-shape into a flat ‘o’ hand-shape

Story HI I (spell your first and last name) NICE-MEET-YOU. I HEARING. I SIGN SLOW. I STUDENT (spell the name of your school) I LEARN SIGN. TEACHER NAME (spell your teacher’s name). SHE HARD OF HEARING. SHE TEACH GOOD. I UNDERSTAND SHE. I LIKE SHE.

Practice • Find a partner (or two) • Get a practice card (make sure you do not have the same one) • Practice silently signing the sentences on the card to one another and see if you can understand each other

WHO YOU? • DEAF YOU? • STUDENT YOU? • YOUR TEACHER NAME HUH? • YOU UNDERSTAND HE/HE? • HOW YOU SIGN P-L-E-A-S-E • AGAIN YOUR NAME? • S/HE STUDENT? • THIS YOUR? (point at any object) • WHERE ________? (spell name of person)

NICE me-MEET-you • HEARING YOU? • ASL TEACHER YOU? • WHERE YOU LEARN SIGN? • WHY YOU LEARN SIGN? • HOW YOU SIGN T-H-A-N-K-S • S/HE STUDENT? • THEY LEARN SIGN? • WHO OUR TEACHER?

Game Time! • Let’s Play Charades!!!! • Get into two teams • Categories: • Movies • Books • TV shows • Places • Famous People

Next time… • Vote for officers • Lesson two: Family • More games • Shirt designs • Return video/picture forms

Sources • Pictures and Signs from lifeprint.com

DCHS American Sign Language Club