Union High School

Deaf Studies Curriculum Supplement

ASL Years 1 & 2

RESOURCE MATERIALS LIST (COLOR CODED):

RED: YouTube / Vimeo: YT
BLUE: Books
GREEN: Art
ORANGE: Articles / Blogs / Vlogs
PURPLE: Films
Required Textbook: Signing Naturally
Resource Textbooks (provided):
-Deaf Culture, Our Way
-For Hearing People Only
-Through Deaf Eyes
-The Deaf Community In America
-Intro to American Deaf Culture
-Deaf World
-A Journey Into The DEAF-World
-Deaf In America
-Train Go Sorry

(Listed as SN in curriculum)
(Listed as DCOW in curriculum)
(Listed as FHPO in curriculum)
(Listed as TDE in curriculum)
(Listed as TDCA in curriculum)
(Listed as IADC in curriculum)
(Listed as DW in curriculum)
(Listed as JIDW in curriculum)
(Listed as DIA in curriculum)
(Listed as TGS in curriculum)

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ASL 1
SEMESTER 1

TOPIC

RESOURCES

WEEK 1

Greetings

WEEK 2

Ways of communicating with Deaf

WEEK 3

Getting signers attention

WEEK 4

Deaf Awareness Week

WEEK 5

Creating A signing environment

WEEK 6

Cultural Norms: Conversations

WEEK 7

Introduction to a visual culture

FHPO Ch. 1
Film See What I Mean: Differences
Between Deaf And Hearing
Cultures
DCOW Classic Hazards

WEEK 8

Cultural Norms: Speaking

FHPO Ch. 110

WEEK 9

History: How ASL came to America

TDE - Introduction

WEEK 10

Deaf Sports

DW: Ch. 42
YT: Sports Illustrated
Underdogs: California School for
the Deaf
DW: Ch 42
Ben Jarashow Lecture Teaching
Deaf Studies Through DeVia

WEEK 11

Deaf Artists: Key Figures

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SN Deaf Culture Quiz

DCOW Classic Humor
FHPO Ch. 14
DCOW Our Unique Ways
SignGenius Tips at: http://
www.signgenius.com/info-do
%27s&don%27ts.shtml
Zoom 2012: Little World at: http://
www.bslzone.co.uk/watch/
zoom-2012-little-world/
FHPO: Ch. 107

ASL 1
SEMESTER 1

TOPIC

RESOURCES

WEEK 12

1-10 Stories

WEEK 13

ABC Stories

WEEK 14

Frank Talk: Physical Features

WEEK 15

ASL Interpreters: What They Do

WEEK 16

Gallaudet University

WEEK 17

WEEK 18

National Deaf Organizations: An

Overview

What Happens At Deaf Parties

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FHPO Ch. 6
YT: Evelina Gaina, ASL Number/ABC
Story Backwards "Vampire &
Werewolf"
ASL Works of Poetry: Selected
Works of Clayton Valli
FHPO: Ch. 111
Art: Matt Daigle, Extreme
Interpreting
YT: Terrylene1 Gallaudets
Favorite Poem!
YT: Gallaudetfilm Gallaudet: The
Film
National Association for the Deaf
(www.nad.org
World Federation For the Deaf
www.wfd.org
Art: Nancy Rourke, CODA Waits

ASL 1
SEMESTER 2

TOPIC

RESOURCES

WEEK 1

Introduction: Deaf Culture Review

WEEK 2

Deaf Performing Arts: Theatre

WEEK 3

Deaf Films

WEEK 4

Storytelling: The Diamond Approach

Wrong Game
Versa Effect
Dack Virnig Snowman

WEEK 5

Deaf Education: Key Figures

DCOW A Hazard No More

WEEK 6

Little d and big D definitions

FHPO Ch. 128

WEEK 7

Communication modalities: An Overview

WEEK 8

Medical View On Deafness

WEEK 9

Cultural View On Deafness

WEEK 10

A History of Deafness and Driving

WEEK 11
WEEK 12

Residential Schools for the Deaf: A

Cultural Bastion
Audism

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SN Deaf Culture Quiz Recall

FHPO: Ch. 9, 55, 56
FHPO Ch. 66

FHPO Ch. 32
FHPO Ch. 35
FHPO Ch. 49
Movie: And Your Name is Jonah
FHPO Ch. 55
FHPO Ch. 117
Article at: http://hubpages.com/
hub/Deaf-People-Drive
FHPO: Ch. 71-73
TDE Ch 2: Advent of Deaf
Education
TGS Ch. 10: Stupid English

ASL 1
SEMESTER 2

TOPIC

RESOURCES

WEEK 13

Technologys impact on Deaf Culture

WEEK 14

Reasons Why Being Deaf is Awesome

WEEK 17

Discrimination: A broad understanding

FHPO Ch. 42
Movie: Sound And Fury
DCOW Hearing Parents of Deaf
Children
DCOW Hearing with Deaf
Parents
FHPO Ch. 84

WEEK 18

Creating Allies

Movie: Love Is Never Silent

WEEK 15
WEEK 16

Cochlear Implants: Deaf vs. Hearing

perspectives
What CODAs are, and what its like to be
one

Deaf World: Social Medias

Impact on the Deaf Community
DCOW Not So New Technology
DCOW New Technology
DCOW Blessings Of Being Deaf

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ASL 2
SEMESTER 1

TOPIC

RESOURCES

Review: Deaf Culture Basics

WEEK 2

ASL Literature: Visual Vernacular

WEEK 3

ASL Literature: Personification

WEEK 4

Deaf Awareness Week

WEEK 5

ASL Literature: Poetry

WEEK 6

Deafness and Music

WEEK 1

WEEK 7

1-10 Stories & ABC Stories

WEEK 8

Storytelling devices and strategies

WEEK 9

Discrimination Cultural Education

WEEK 10

Deaf Employment Then & Now

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TGS Ch. 1: Coming into the

Language
FHPO Ch. 21
Supala & Bahan - Bird of a
Different Feather
TDE Ch 1: Introduction
TGS - Ch. 2: Transition Lessons
TGS Ch. 3: Prince Charming
Peter Cook at: http://
www.deafpetercook.com/home/
Winter_Edition.html
Documentary: See What Im
Saying?
Rosa Lee Timm videos
FHPO
Ch. 65
TGS Ch. 4: The Least Restrictive
Environment
Documentary: Deaf Jam (Aneta
Brodski)
TDE Ch. 3: Formation of a Deaf
Community
TGS Ch. 5: Words Left Unspoken
Kara Walker, Black artist
TDE Ch 5: In Time of War and
Economic Depression

ASL 2
SEMESTER 1

TOPIC

RESOURCES

WEEK 11

Deaf Inventors

WEEK 12

DeVia Defining A Movement

WEEK 13

Oppression:

WEEK 15

Frank Talk: Personal Information (SN L2:

95-96)
ASL Interpreters: Ethical Considerations

WEEK 16

Why Deaf Parents Want Deaf Children

WEEK 17

Protests: An Overview and Key Figures

Self-awareness and action

WEEK 14

WEEK 18

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Paper by Jennifer Nasukiewicz at:

https://my.gallaudet.edu/
bbcswebdav/institution/ASLCurr/
ASL-L1-curriculum/8th-Grade/DeafInventors.pdf
TGS Ch. 6: A Recovery
TGS Ch. 7: Falling Within the
Banana
Movie: Precious Knowledge
FHPO Ch. 123
TGS Ch. 8: Tower of Babel
FHPO Ch. 94
DW Ch. 9
Ella Mae Lentz; To A Hearing
Mother
TDE Ch 4: The Struggle Over Sign
Language
DW Ch. 48
YT: dcmpnad Deaf Mosaic #402
Book: The World Heard Gallaudet
TDE Ch. 6: Access and Awareness

ASL 2
SEMESTER 2

TOPIC

RESOURCES

TGS Ch. 9: Salvaging

WEEK 2

Local Deaf Organizations: How to Get

Involved
Deaf Clubs

WEEK 3

Deaf Performing Arts: Challenges

TGS Ch. 11: Number-One Home

WEEK 4

Deaf Films: A Critical View

Black Sand vs. Gerald

WEEK 5

Deaf Education: Colliding Philosophies

TGS Ch. 12: Train Go Sorry

WEEK 6

Bilingualism / Biculturalism

ASL literature: Pointy Three

By Adam Stone
TGS Ch. 13: Whose Apple Pie

WEEK 1

WEEK 7
WEEK 8

Communication Modalities: Impacts on

Community, Culture, and Identity
Medical Approaches on eradication of
Deafness

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JITDW Ch. 1

JITDW Ch. 14
Art: Matt Daigle, Im Sooo
Sorry

ASL 2
SEMESTER 2

TOPIC

RESOURCES

WEEK 9

Comparing Deafness to other Minority

Cultures

WEEK 10

Deaf Friendly Living Spaces

WEEK 11

Residential Schools for the Deaf: Legal

Challenges and Current Trends

WEEK 12

Deaf Employment: Current challenges

TGS Ch. 14: Moving The

Boundaries Blog: Sign language
that African Americans use is
different from that of whites
(Washington Post: http://
www.washingtonpost.com/
lifestyle/style/sign-languagethat-african-americans-use-isdifferent-from-that-of-whites/
2012/09/17/2e897628bbe2-11e1-8867ecf6cb7935ef_story.html)
FHPO Ch. 57
Deaf Space (Gallaudet website
at: http://www.gallaudet.edu/
university_communications/
gallaudet_today_magazine/
deaf_space_spring_2007.html
TGS Ch. 15: Light & Dark
Understanding Harry Potter:
Parallels to the Deaf World
(article)
IAD Ch. 12

WEEK 13

Protests: Current factors and Future

Protests

TGS Ch. 16: Interpreting

BW Ch. 48

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ASL 2
SEMESTER 2

TOPIC

RESOURCES

WEEK 14

Criminal Justice

WEEK 15

Cochlear Implants and Language

Acquisition

WEEK 16

Deaf Identity Spectrum

WEEK 17

DeafHood

WEEK 18

Being Agents Of Change As Allies

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FHPO Ch. 131

My Deaf Mom, the Cop and the
Law at https://
www.youtube.com/watch?
v=VRaBUfeNfAU
Marlee Matlin On Deaf and Police
Interaction at https://
www.youtube.com/watch?
v=pAvewviVwjY
TGS Ch. 17: The Long Goodbye

Early Intervention http://

aslized.org/journal/ei/
YT: James Kittell My Son is
DEAF, Finally! (subtitles)
FHPO Ch. 52
TGS Ch. 18: Graduation
DeafHood summary at: http://
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deafhood
YT: Deaf Discrimination on ABC's
"What Would You Do?"