Life Events and Countries Unit 13

Life Events and CountriesUnit 13 Based on Signing Naturally, Unit 15 Unit 13

Unit 13 Major Goals • Discuss life events and nationalities • Use transitions between events in narratives • Use dependent clauses (when clauses) • Use classifiers to describe events Unit 13

Link to signs for countries: http://www.aslresource.net/index.html Countries of the world Unit 13

Europe Unit 13

Africa Unit 13

Middle East and Asia Unit 13

Australia and Oceania Unit 13

South America Unit 13

Central America and Caribbean Unit 13

North America Unit 13

vocabulary Other narrative signs Unit 13

From Unit 13

Itself Unit 13

Around (time) Unit 13

Lie Unit 13

Fiction/fictional, make-up Unit 13

Describing Family History Unit 13

Describing Mixed Nationality mixed heritage strong full mixed half 100% Unit 13

Narrative Sequence • Tell who • Tell background • Tell about changes • Tell about move W F G W W ? E G A E E A E A Family Tree Diagram A Unit 13

Why People Migrate • Economic Reasons • Disasters • Persecution • War • Family Reasons Unit 13

/ Conjunctions – Connecting Ideas Unexpected circumstances Compare/contrast, shoulder shifting, use of sign space is used along with on of the following: wrong hit happen but, however finish/then which? Unit 13

Family Background Narrative • Discuss why your family and relatives moved. Include: • Mother’s and father’s side • Use pronouns to refer to a grandparent or great-grandparent • Tell two countries, if possible (ok to invent) • Use at least one of these signs: strong, 100%, full, ½, cross, or mix • Use at least one conjunction that shows an unexpected event : wrong, hit, happen • Tell at least one person’s reason for moving Unit 13

Recording and sending video through email. • Follow this process to get a grade on family background narrative: • Use webcams to videotape a draft of yourself signing about your family history • Use Windows Moviemaker to compress your video file down to 20 MB or less if you can • Name the file family reasons_yourname • Email video to me at (NEW EMAIL!) westlandasl@gmail.com Unit 13

tumblr.com Open tumblr.com account if you have turned in a signed permission slip • Use this convention to name your URL for this project: chmsaslfirstname.tumblr.com • Name your page ASL Share • Use the “video” icon at the top of your ASL Share dashboard page to open a video upload prompt page and upload your video. Unit 13

Family Background Narrative Rubric Unit 12

vocabulary Life Events Unit 13

Grow-up, be-raised Unit 13

Go-through-school-grades Unit 13

Graduate Unit 13

Fall-in-love Unit 13

Conceive, become-pregnant Unit 13

Move-to Unit 13

Offer (job offer) Unit 13

Promote, promotion Unit 13

Transfer (different job) Unit 13

Principal Unit 13

Car accident Unit 13

Retire Unit 13

Settle-down Unit 13

Put-down-roots, settle-down Unit 13

Died, dead Unit 13

Laid-off (work) Unit 13

Burn-down Unit 13

Drop-out, quit (school) Unit 13

Take (test) Unit 13

Pass Unit 13

Fail Unit 13

License Unit 13

Escape Unit 13

Life Events and Countries Unit 13