Unit 13

Life Events and Countries

Unit 13Based on Signing Naturally,

Unit 15

Unit 13

Unit 13 Major Goals

• Discuss life events and nationalities• Use transitions between events in narratives• Use dependent clauses (when clauses)• Use classifiers to describe events

Unit 13

COUNTRIES OF THE WORLDLink to signs for countries: http://www.aslresource.net/index.html

Unit 13

Europe

Africa

Unit 13

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Middle East and Asia

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Australia and Oceania

Unit 13 South America

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Central America and Caribbean

Unit 13 North America

Unit 13

OTHER NARRATIVE SIGNSvocabulary

Unit 13

From

Unit 13

Itself

Unit 13

Around (time)

Unit 13

Lie

Unit 13

Fiction/fictional, make-up

Unit 13

Describing Family History

Unit 13

Describing Mixed Nationality

mixed

full

half

strong

100%

mixed heritage

Unit 13

Narrative Sequence• Tell who• Tell background• Tell about changes• Tell about move

Family Tree Diagram

E?W

E

W

E EA

A

A

G G

W F

A

Unit 13

Why People Migrate

• Economic Reasons• Disasters• Persecution• War• Family Reasons

Unit 13

Conjunctions – Connecting Ideas

Compare/contrast, shoulder shifting, use of sign space is used along with on of the following:

/

but,however

finish/then which?

Unexpected circumstances

wrong hit happen

Unit 13

Family Background Narrative

– Discuss why your family and relatives moved. Include:

• Mother’s and father’s side• Use pronouns to refer to a grandparent or great-

grandparent• Tell two countries, if possible (ok to invent)• Use at least one of these signs: strong, 100%, full, ½,

cross, or mix• Use at least one conjunction that shows an unexpected

event : wrong, hit, happen• Tell at least one person’s reason for moving

Unit 13

Recording and sending video through email.

– Follow this process to get a grade on family background narrative:

• Use webcams to videotape a draft of yourself signing about your family history

• Use Windows Moviemaker to compress your video file down to 20 MB or less if you can

• Name the file family reasons_yourname • Email video to me at (NEW EMAIL!)

westlandasl@gmail.com

Unit 13

tumblr.com

Open tumblr.com account if you have turned in a signed permission slip

1. Use this convention to name your URL for this project:chmsaslfirstname.tumblr.com

2. Name your page ASL Share3. Use the “video” icon at the top of your ASL

Share dashboard page to open a video upload prompt page and upload your video.

Unit 12

Family Background Narrative RubricNames: 2 3 4 5

3 or more elements missing

2 elements missing 1 element missing All elements present

Non Manual Signals Few or no NMS Some correct NMS Many correct NMS NMS present throughout with correct timing

Sign Production (HOLM)

3 or more incorrect signs

2 incorrect signs 1 incorrect sign All signs produced correctly

Fluency / Smoothness of signing

Very halting, many unnatural pauses

Somewhat halting, several unnatural pauses

Mostly smooth, little hesitancy

No hesitancy, very smooth

Unit 12

Family Background Narrative RubricFamily BG Narrative RubricName: 2 3 4 5

*Mother’s and father’s side*Use pronouns to refer to a grandparent or great-grandparent*Two countries, if possible (ok to invent)*At least one : strong, 100%, full, ½, cross, or mix*At least one reason for moving*At least one conjunction : wrong, hit, happen

3 or more elements missing

2 elements missing 1 element missing All elements present

Non Manual Signals*Shoulder shift (mom/dad)*Eye gaze (family tree)*Eyebrows up (topic/comm)

Few or no NMS Some correct NMS Many correct NMS NMS present throughout with correct timing

Sign Production (HOLM)

3 or more incorrect signs

2 incorrect signs 1 incorrect sign All signs produced correctly

Fluency / Smoothness of signing

Very halting, many unnatural pauses

Somewhat halting, several unnatural pauses

Mostly smooth, little hesitancy

No hesitancy, very smooth

Unit 13

LIFE EVENTSvocabulary

Unit 13

Grow-up, be-raised

Unit 13

Go-through-school-grades

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Graduate

Unit 13

Fall-in-love

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Conceive, become-pregnant

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Move-to

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Offer (job offer)

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Promote, promotion

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Transfer (different job)

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Principal

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Car accident

Unit 13

Retire

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Settle-down

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Put-down-roots, settle-down

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Died, dead

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Laid-off (work)

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Burn-down

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Drop-out, quit (school)

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Take (test)

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Pass

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Fail

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License

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Escape

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Mess-up, chaos

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Soldier

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Summon

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Kill

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War

Unit 13

Watch “Jose’s Life Story”, (SN VHS, Unit 15). Identify the parts of the narrative, and summarize in

English. Use the picture sequence to help you follow the narrative.

1. Introduction (born and raised in…?)a. _______________________________

2. Main Body (name 3 major events and when they happened)

a. ________________________________b. ________________________________c. ________________________________

3. Closing (current situation or future plans)a. ________________________________

Unit 13

“Jos

e’s

Life

Sto

ry”

pict

ure

sequ

ence

Unit 13

TIME TRANSITIONSVocabulary & Grammar

Unit 13

Pauses

• This is the most common type of transition. At the end of an event nod your head slightly, pause your signing, then raise your head to signal the beginning of the next event.

SignWriting here

Unit 13

Dependent or “when” clauses

• This transition happens at the beginning of a sentence and explains when an event happened. This is a time/topic-comment structure, so the eyebrows raise and the head nods downward for the “when” portion, then the eyebrows flatten and head raises during the event explanation. Use this transition to tell about the following:1. Age (When I was 5, I started school.)2. Preceding event (After graduation, I started working)3. Year of event (In 1985, he passed away)

Unit 13

Time signs indicating a period of time

• Use NMS with the later-on sign to show the relative amount of time passed.

Later-on, some-time-later

Short time later Medium time later Long time later

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Up-until-now, since

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Before-event

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