Shoulder Shifting

• American Sign Language
• 9th Grade

ASL Shoulder Shifting

Today 

• Warm-up
• Determine similarities and differences between listing and ordering techniques
• Create one example of listing and one for ordering 
• Distinguish between listing and ordering and justify your decision with evidence
• Lesson
• Predict what shoulder shifting is and why we use it in ASL
• What word does it replace in the English Language?
• Apply shoulder shifting with the family vocabulary you learned in this unit.
• Compare listing/ordering to shoulder shifting and create a whole class poster

By the End of the Week

You will be able to:

Create a short mini dialogue incorporating family signs, the listing/ordering technique or shoulder shifting, age, and correct ASL sentence structure.

Warm-up 

Think back to our prior lesson on listing and ordering: 

1. What are the similarities and differences between listing and ordering?Think about the 5 parameters of ASL. 

2. Create one example for listing and one for ordering. 

3. When the timer is up I'll give you instructions for signing them to a partner. If you finish before the timer practice your listing and ordering example. 

 

Partner Time 

1. Pick either your list or your ordering/ranking example (do not tell your partner). 

2. Sign your example to your partner. 

3. Your partner will determine what you signed (listing or ordering/ranking).

4. Based on what you know, justify in detail your answer with evidence.

5. Switch

Shoulder Shifting

Predict: What do you think shoulder shifting is? Why do we use it?

What did you notice when he signed about his mother and father? What did he do?

Why do you think I can't sign the information straight, forward?

 Notes: What should I look for

What is shoulder shifting? 

When do you use it? 

List examples

You will be comparing it to listing and ordering at the end of this lesson and creating a whole class poster.

Let's take a look 

Watch Again

Practice

1. I have:

1 sister

2 brothers

2. My

mother is Deaf

father is hard of hearing

sister is hearing

On your own:

 My parents are divorced:

Dad lives in California

Mom lives in New York

Create: create an example using the picture below. Write your example in the shoulder shifting note portion of your graphic organizer.

• For this portion because I am out, draw a t-chart on the back of your graphic organizer. 
• On one side write shoulder shifting and on the other write listing/ordering (similar to the poster on the small white board)

• In the t-chart tell me  similarities and differences between the two (as many as you can think of)

listing/ordering

shoulder shifting

Poster Time

-Take a look at your notes from listing and ordering and the notes we took today.

-What are the similarities and differences between listing and ordering and shoulder shifting 

-As a team, decide on one similarity/difference of each technique (what do you think is the most important). 

-You should have two stickie notes

-Make sure you are working with your team and contributing

-Select one person to read each stickie note

Practice

• Find a partner
• Practice signing the following (give each other feedback) 

Use shoulder shifting for each pair.

The list below is in English, translate it to ASL using shoulder shifting.

• 1 brother and 2 sisters
• small and medium
• cousin (male) and cousin (female)
•  aunt and uncle
• I have 1 sister no brothers

Exit Ticket 

Create your own

1. On your paper create 3 DIFFERENT shoulder-shifting vocabulary pairs/sentences (they can relate to your family).

2. Sign them to a partner, your partner will determine/assess what family signs you used and provide you feedback.

Was the shoulder shifting clear? 

Did your partner sign the family signs correctly?

Reflection at the end