ASL - American Sign Language

ASL 1 (First Semester) [First Year Fall Semester] [Public School K-12: Point five (.5) credits] [University: Four (4) Semester-Credit-Hours or Six (6) Quarter-Credit-Hours] [Continuing Education: Six (6) CEUs] [Course Contact Hours: 40 to 60]

ASL 2 (Second Semester) [First Year Spring Semester] [Public School K-12: Point five (.5) credits] [University: Four (4) Semester-Credit-Hours or Six (6) Quarter-Credit-Hours] [Continuing Education: Six (6) CEUs] [Course Contact Hours: 40 to 60]

ASL 3 (Third Semester) [Second Year Fall Semester]
[Public School K-12: Point five (.5) credits] [University: Four (4) Semester-Credit-Hours or Six (6) Quarter-Credit-Hours] [Continuing Education: Six (6) CEUs] [Course Contact Hours: 40 to 60]

Construction notes:
Webmaster Future Site Development notes:
Vocab for future lesson development:
say, court, judge, trial

Lessons
Animals
Holidays
Pledge
Medical
Legal
Classifiers
Grammar
Terminology
Boy Scout Oath
Girl Scout Oath

Notes to the development team:

The goal is to have 15 lessons per level that work well and are teachable in one semester.
Most colleges seem to be using a 4 unit course rather than a 3 unit course. This needs to be accounted for in "any" ASL curriculum, so we will need to provide strategies for using the same curriculum to teach either course schedule. (Breakaways, extra practice sessions, extra testing, etc.)

As we consider what topics, skills, and vocabulary to teach we need to make distinctions in levels so that we don't try to teach everything about every "worthy" topic during the first semester. Because for each thing that goes in, something must come out -- there is only so much time available in a semester.
For example, "giving directions."
I want you to ask yourself, does "giving directions" (beyond the very, very basics) belong in a level 1 class? Why or why not? How frequently will this be used? In reality, what strategies are ACTUALLY used by most everyday users of ASL? For example: Drawing a map on paper? Google maps? If so, then what we need to teach is "YOU-MIND PUT-DOWN ADDRESS FOR ME?" and/or "YOU KNOW HOW GOOGLE MAP?" I'm totally open, I just want to make sure we focus on things in the absolute most effective order of introduction based on scientific research combined with our many years of real world experience (as well as "gut experience").
If we consider "direction giving" to be a fundamental skill (and to some extent I do) we next need to consider:
Level 1 direction giving vocabulary and skills:
Level 2 direction giving vocabulary and skills:
Level 3 direction giving vocabulary and skills:
And so forth.
By considering the long term perspective we can avoid the sense of having to cram everything into the same semester.
Also, let's remember, the goal is not to copy some other curriculum, but to aim for the most effective, fun, interesting, appropriate curriculum possible, regardless of the eventual content or approach.

Lifeprint Development:

Level 1:
Skill: Indexing on non-dominant hand

Skill: Use of space for comparing and contrasting

Application: Talking about family
Lesson: (?) Lesson 2 (?)

Discussion:
Indexing on the non-dominant hand is in lesson 2 in one of the stories. Note: make it an actual listed skill.

Course:	Lessons
ASL 1	01\|02\|03\|04\|05\|06\|07\|08\|09\|10\|11\|12\|13\|14\|15
ASL 2	16\|17\|18\|19\|20\|21\|22\|23\|24\|25\|26\|27\|28\|29\|30
ASL 3	31\|32\|33\|34\|35\|36\|37\|38\|39\|40\|41\|42\|43\|44\|45

ASL 4
Deaf Culture	1\|2\|3\|4\|5\|6\|7\|8
Fingerspelling and Numbers	Start (under development, feel free to use what is available)
ASL Linguistics	Start (coming soon -- being developed)

ASL University Lessons Page: [Note to all teachers: You are welcome to use the Lifeprint Curriculum to teach your classes. Please know though that small improvements and revisions are made to the lessons frequently. - Dr. Bill]

ASL University Lessons Page:
[Note to all teachers: You are welcome to use the Lifeprint Curriculum to teach your classes. Please know though that small improvements and revisions are made to the lessons frequently. - Dr. Bill]