AMERICAN SIGN LANGUAGE 2, PART 1

In this module, students gain a comprehension of the following:

• A review of ASL 1, including the basics of glossing, topic/comment structure, rhetorical questions, yes/no questions, and WH-questions
• Practice and improve fingerspelling.
• Learn advanced vocabulary to talk about everyday subjects. 
• Learn about comparatives and superlatives, and contrastive structure. 
• A basic linguistics lesson on how ASL signs are constructed.
• Learn classifiers and signs to describe large events. 
• Review and expand on the use of inflection to show continued and repeated events. 
• Learn vocabulary for agreeing and disagreeing, and the structure for forming conditional sentences. 
• Practice how to use signs such as HIT, WRONG, FINISH, FRUSTRATE, FIND as conjunctions.
• Learn vocabulary and classifiers to talk about nature, the environment, weather, seasons, and holidays. 
• Learn to use mouth morphemes to create adverbs.
• Learn everything you need to know to talk about travel, including vocabulary, classifiers related to transportation, and the names of countries. 
• We will hear from a selection of Deaf travelers and learn how to talk about nationality.
• Practice making and canceling plans.
• Learn about idioms – a statement or saying that cannot be translated literally!
• Study a variety of stories and narratives about ASL folklore: different genres; why it is important to ASL and the Deaf community; how it capitalizes on the visual nature of ASL; and how it reflects the Deaf experience.
• Study how signs and classifiers are used in a variety of ways to show the eyes and everything they can do.