Initialized Signs and Colors

• American Sign Language
• 9th Grade

Poster 

You will have 15 minutes to finish poster and practice presenting your poster.

Initialized Signs and Colors

"Colors" by Chuck Baird

Goals for today: 11/10-11/12

•  Recall the 5 parameters of ASL (think back to your poster)
• Understand what initialized signs are, when to use them, and how to identify them.
• Sign basic color signs in ASL, identify color being signed, practice using colors in a sentence (likes/dislikes)
• Identify the initialized signs within the color signs 
• Provide positive feedback to peers regarding signing color signs (Are they using the 5 parameters correctly and the initialized signs correctly)

Unit 2: Getting Started

How does this fit into the lesson? 

Colors: When you are getting started to learn a language you typically learn the colors in that language. This fits under the objective: engage in basic conversation on a variety of topics. It will also help you in the next lesson when we learn classroom objects (how to describe them).

Initialized Signs: This fits under the objective: improve the familiarity with ASL grammar and structure. 

Prior lesson:

We discussed the 5 parameters of ASL. You will use the 5 parameters when learning colors today. Make sure when we are learning each color you identify the 5 parameters of that sign in order to sign it correctly. Many of the colors have the same handshape, but may differ in the other parameters. 

Do you remember the 5 parameters of ASL? Let's see what you remember!

Warm-up

What are the 5 parameters of ASL?

1. location, hand shape, palm orientation, non manual markers (facial expressions), movement
2. neutral space, the asl alphabet, numbers, movement, eyebrows
3. WH-questions, eyebrows, yes-no questions, facial expressions, ASL alphabet
4. greeting, fingerspelling your name, introductions, continuing the conversation, farewells

Group: Why are the 5 Parameters of ASL important?

Questions?

Initialized Signs

What do you know: initialized signs
What do you think they are?

Initialized Poster

•  In your ASL Notebook take notes on initialized signs
• At the end, we will meet with your group to create stickie notes to go on the poster.

Look Familiar? 

Remember we talked about name signs?

some colors too

Is this an initialized sign (classroom). Note: use the 5 parameters look at his hands.

1. Yes
2. No

Break it down

CLASS

ROOM

Is it?

The correct answer is yes, this is an initialized sign. 

Why? 

He uses the ASL Alphabet letter C and R for Class Room 

This way is not recommended.

Initialized Poster

• Group time-share what you wrote in your notes
• Create one post-it based on what you discussed as a team

Remember

Keep this in mind when we go over the colors in the next part of the lesson here. Identify what colors use initialized sign and which signs do not.

Colors

FAVORITE COLOR WHAT?
COLOR YOU LIKE WHAT?

blue

green

yellow

pink

purple

black

brown

white

orange

red

COLOR DON'T LIKE WHAT?

blue

green

yellow

pink

purple

black

brown

white

orange

red

Vocabulary

favorite

like

not like

color

black

blue

brown

gray

green

orange

pink

purple

red

white

yellow

Vocabulary we will use

favorite

don't like

like

What is this?

What is this?

Colors

Colors 

Elbow Partner

Turn to your elbow partner and ask the following: 

FAVORITE COLOR WHAT?

COLOR DON'T LIKE WHAT?

The purple words are signs you have learned in the past.

Connecting Initialized Signs and Colors

Connecting Initialized Signs and Colors

Initialized

Not Initialized

Practice

1. Team Colors

2. Spinner Peer Assessment

Color Game

1. When I sign your team color stand up 

2. If it's not your team color sign the color with me 

Partner Color Assessment

Find a partner with a different favorite color than you. 

How? Sign your color in ASL 

1. Determine who will be partner 1 and partner 2

2. Have one partner grab the following materials (color spinner, paper clip, 2 worksheets one for each partner). You will need a pencil for this too.

3. Take turns spinning the color spinner. One partner will spin it the other will sign it. Go back and forth until you complete the worksheet.

4. Give each other feedback. What colors do you need to work on? Fill out the bottom portion when finished. You will turn this in at the end of class.

Exit Ticket

Take a look at your paper. What colors did you miss? Fill out the bottom portion.

What colors did you miss?

Next Class

Identifying objects in the classroom. You will use your knowledge of colors to help identify them. 

Color Game

• We will do this as a warm-up next period
• Materials: 1 spinner, 1 pencil, 2 whiteboard markers
• In the group bins, you will find a color game board and the whiteboard markers
• I'll explain and model how you will play the game