Pacing Guide at-a-Glance for American Sign Language (ASL) 1, 2, and 3
The following Pacing Guides are for American Sign Language Levels one through three.
American Sign Language 1
By the end of each marking period, students can perform the following functions:
Marking Period 1
Unit 1: Welcome
Functions/Objectives - I can:
- Use my expressive and receptive skills to greet and introduce individuals
- Ask and tell someone how I am/they are
- Discuss where ASL is used
- Fingerspell names of students in my classroom, school name
- Understand when someone fingerspells a name to me
- Count and understand numbers 1-10
- Begin to use facial expressions and non-manual markers
- Make requests for school purposes
- Explain the difference between the Medical and Cultural view of deafness
Unit 2: Starting a Conversation
Functions/Objectives - I can:
- Ask and tell who someone is (friend in class)
- Ask and tell how to say a word in ASL
- Ask for clarification
- Discuss a Brief History of the evolution of ASL in the United States
- Begin to have a typical conversation with a Deaf person
- Count and understand the numbers 11-20
Marking Period 2
Unit 3: Personal Identity
Functions/Objectives - I can:
- Ask and respond about preferences (such as favorite teachers, movies, books, restaurants, numbers)
- Sign various ways to say goodbye
- Express a wider variety of feelings (such as tired, excited)
- Use appropriate terms for Deaf and Hard of Hearing
- Count and understand numbers 21-50
Marking Period 3
Unit 4: My Life
Functions/Objectives - I can:
- Ask and answer questions about where I and others are from, live, were born
- Ask and respond to phone numbers and addresses
- Tell my family and friends about the holidays, weather, and traditions I prefer
- Discuss the difference between where I live and other places around town
- Identify and express weather patterns across the United States
- Recognize and sign colors and express my favorite color
Marking Period 4
Unit 5: Family & Friends
Functions/Objectives - I can:
- Express how many people are in my family and their relationship to me
- Compare family members by using contrastive Structure/Shoulder Shifting
- Sign about my family's/friends' life events (such as marital status, age)
- Ask and tell my age and the age of people in my life
- Make plans with friends to do something after school or on the weekend
- Count numbers 51-100
Unit 6: School
Functions/Objectives - I can:
- Sign what classes I am taking, have taken, where classes are, who ar
- Sign about my class schedule
- Sign about school places and personnel
- Identify what level I am in school (such as freshman, sophomore, junior, senior, college, university)
American Sign Language 2
By the end of each marking period, students can perform the following functions:
Marking Period 1
Unit 1: Activities and Sports
Functions/Objectives - I can:
- Identify sports and when they are played
- Identify favorite sports teams and where they are located
- Explain how Deaf culture influenced sports
- Dialogue about activities people do for leisure
- Use appropriate non-manuals when signing "if" statements
- Begin to use Classifiers when talking about sports
- Sign about a memory related to sports
- Sign about a sporting event I will attend
- Discuss different levels of expertise
Unit 2: Future Travel Plans
Functions/Objectives: I can…
- Participate in Signed dialogues about my future plans
- Give suggestions and sign responses
- Arrange to meet someone at a future date
- Use idiomatic phrases to respond
- Plan a trip
Marking Period 2
Unit 3: Navigating Communities
Functions/Objectives - I can:
- Communicate given directions
- Understand directions from the signer's perspective
- Sign dialogues about directions
- Make a map and give directions in sign
Unit 4: Attitudes & Opinions
Functions/Objectives: I can…
- Participate in Signed dialogues expressing my opinion for or against a topic
- Emphasize the size of something
- Ask other students' opinions on things such as, books, movies, etc., and understand their response
- Use quantifiers to summarize an opinion
- Comprehend a signed story about an attitude or opinion
Marking Period 3
Unit 5: My Routine
Functions/Objectives - I can:
- Express my feelings about people & places in my daily routine
- Express things that I do/did/will do repeatedly
- Use facial expressions to communicate how I do something
- Describe how often I go somewhere
- Sign how frequently I do something
- Sign for how long I do something
Unit 6: Occupations
Functions/Objectives: I can…
- Sign about someone's occupation
- Ask someone how long they have worked a particular job
- Use "why" to explain a reason for occupation choice
- Describe a job I would like to have in the future
Marking Period 4
Unit 7: Food
Functions/Objectives - I can:
- Tell time and indicate duration
- Sign about food and measurements of foods
- Sign in a dialogue about food
- Describe my favorite food and ask what others like
- Sign the steps to a recipe
Unit 8: Deaf History
Functions/Objectives: I can…
- Recognize key individuals
- Understand important events between 1817-1988
- Present about a deaf person
American Sign Language 3
By the end of each marking period, students can perform the following functions:
Marking Period 1
Unit 1: Locating Things Around the House
Functions/Objectives: I can…
- Identify types of houses, furniture, and other objects in a room
- Sign opinions about places in a house
- Use classifiers to describe things in a room
- Draw a floorplan and sign it
- Describe to a partner where something is kept in a room
- Sign the layout for a backyard and how I would remodel it
Unit 2: ASL Literature
Functions/Objectives: I can…
- Recognize ABC stories in Deaf culture
- Create my own ABC story & present it to the class
- Recognize Number stories in Deaf culture
- Create my own number story & present it to the class
- Recognize Classifier stories in Deaf culture
- Create my own classifier story and present in to the class
- Understand the importance of this literature in Deaf culture
Marking Period 2
Unit 3: Complaining, Making Suggestions and Requests
Functions/Objectives: I can…
- Identify signs for sicknesses and annoying behaviors
- Recognize the difference between recurring and continuous signs, such as the sign 'every morning' is signed different than 'all morning'
- Sign a dialogue with a classmate about sickness, to make a request, or to complain
- Tell and understand the time
- Tell a story of something I lost and present it to the class
- Describe a sickness at the doctor's office
- Participate in a debate, take a side of a topic that is popular in Deaf culture and debate it in class
Marking Period 3
Unit 4: Influence of Origin
Functions/Objectives: I can…
- Identify countries and nationalities
- Say where someone is from
- Write a biography about someone I look up to and present it
- Research a country and present to the class
- Utilize cardinal directions to describe locations
- Sign dialogues about where others and I are from
- Recognize differences between past and current signs for countries
Marking Period 4
Unit 5: Community Life
Functions/Objectives: I can…
- Describe what people are wearing
- Describe how food tastes
- Identify popular places in the community
- Describe how others and I are dressed
- Create a classifier story about where I go in the community
- Talk about the weekend
- Recommend places to visit to the class
- Write a children's story and present it to class