| Curricular Competency |
Identify and explore educational and personal/professional opportunities requiring proficiency in ASL |
American Sign Language (ASL) 11 |
Personal and social awareness |
| Keyword: educational and personal/professional opportunities |
Elaboration: e.g., academic research, translation, international affairs, government, teaching, travel, study abroad |
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| Curricular Competency |
Engage in Deaf cultural experiences |
American Sign Language (ASL) 11 |
Personal and social awareness |
| Keyword: Deaf cultural experiences |
Elaboration: e.g., blogs, vlogs, school visits (including virtual visits), performances, exchanges, festivals, films, pen-pal letters, plays, social media |
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| Curricular Competency |
Identify and discuss perspectives in texts |
American Sign Language (ASL) 11 |
Personal and social awareness |
| Keyword: perspectives |
Elaboration: A text can reflect the author's point of view which may include bias. |
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| Curricular Competency |
Investigate regional variations in ASL |
American Sign Language (ASL) 11 |
Personal and social awareness |
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| Curricular Competency |
Share information using the presentation format best suited to their own and others' diverse abilities |
American Sign Language (ASL) 11 |
Thinking and communicating |
| Keyword: presentation format |
Elaboration: e.g., digital, visual; aids such as charts, graphics, illustrations, photographs, videos, props, digital media |
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| Curricular Competency |
Express themselves with growing fluency |
American Sign Language (ASL) 11 |
Thinking and communicating |
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| Curricular Competency |
Engage in meaningful conversations on a variety of topics |
American Sign Language (ASL) 11 |
Thinking and communicating |
| Keyword: Engage |
Elaboration: with peers, teachers, and members of the wider communitycan include virtual/online conversations |
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| Curricular Competency |
Respond personally to a variety of materials |
American Sign Language (ASL) 11 |
Thinking and communicating |
| Keyword: personally |
Elaboration: e.g., providing personal interpretations or opinions |
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| Curricular Competency |
Narrate stories |
American Sign Language (ASL) 11 |
Thinking and communicating |
| Keyword: Narrate |
Elaboration: using expressions of time and transitional signs to show logical progressionusing past, present, and future time frames |
| Keyword: stories |
Elaboration: Stories, including handshape stories, are a narrative form of text that can be written or visual. Stories are derived from truth or fiction and may be used to seek and impart knowledge, entertain, share history, and strengthen a sense of identity. |
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| Curricular Competency |
Locate and explore a variety of authentic representations of ASL |
American Sign Language (ASL) 11 |
Thinking and communicating |
| Keyword: Locate |
Elaboration: discovering various types of ASL materials |
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| Curricular Competency |
Share and negotiate meaning derived from a wide variety of texts and contexts |
American Sign Language (ASL) 11 |
Thinking and communicating |
| Keyword: texts |
Elaboration: “Text” is a generic term referring to all forms of written, visual, and digital communication. Written and visual elements can also be combined (e.g., in dramatic presentations, graphic novels, films, web pages, advertisements). |
| Keyword: contexts |
Elaboration: audience, purpose, setting, formality/informality |
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| Curricular Competency |
Recognize how choice of signs affects meaning |
American Sign Language (ASL) 11 |
Thinking and communicating |
| Keyword: choice of signs |
Elaboration: nuances among tenses, pronouns, placement and location of signs, similar signs with different meanings |
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| Big Ideas |
Acquiring ASL provides a unique opportunity to interact with Deaf communities and the Deaf world. |
American Sign Language (ASL) Introductory 11 |
No CCG |
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| Big Ideas |
Exploring Deaf culture and diverse forms of cultural expression allows us to appreciate cultural diversity. |
American Sign Language (ASL) Introductory 11 |
No CCG |
| Keyword: forms of cultural expression |
Elaboration: represent the experience of the people from whose culture they are drawn (e.g., number stories, Deaf mime, songs, poetry and prose, painting, sculpture, theatre, filmmaking, musical composition, architecture) |
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| Big Ideas |
Expressing ourselves in a new language requires courage, risk taking, and perseverance. |
American Sign Language (ASL) Introductory 11 |
No CCG |
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