SAMPLE LESSON PLAN

Lesson Plan Author: ___Diane Gamache__ ______________

SCHOOL
Institution Shadow & Buddy University
Course ASL Level 2 (ASL 201)
Curriculum Signing Naturally Level 2, Units 7-12
Students 26
Duration Mondays, Wednesdays, and Fridays from 11:00 to 11:50am
Co-Faculty Jane & Jack

OUTCOMES
Unit Unit 7: Describe People and Things.
Outcomes At the end of this unit, the students will be able to:
1) Develop basic conversational fluency in ASL describing people and clothing using
appropriate vocabulary, grammar, and conversational behaviors.
2) Demonstrate appropriate cultural norms within the Deaf community when describing
people or clothing.
3) Produce numbers correctly and demonstrate fluency when expressing numbers.
4) Develop and identify appropriate ways of greeting and leave-taking when approaching a
deaf person.
Lesson Lesson: Cultural: Greetings and Leave-Takings
Outcomes At the end of this lesson, the students will be able to:
1) Demonstrate eye contact when greeting each other.
2) Display eye contact when saying goodbye.
3) Demonstrate greetings and good bye following Deaf culture tendencies.
ACTFL This lesson satisfies the following ACTFL standards:
Standards 1.1: Engage in conversations & exchange information
1.2: Understand & interpret a variety of topics
2.1: Demonstrate an understanding of cultural practices
3.1: Understand & expand their knowledge of other disciplines through connection
4.1: Demonstrate an understanding of culture through comparisons
5.1: Use language within and beyond the school setting
Outcome &
Standards Lesson Outcomes Unit ACTFL
Chart 1) Demonstrating by making eye contact when greeting. 2 1.1, 1.2, 2.1,
& 5.1
2) Display eye contact when saying goodbye. 2, 4 4.1, 5.1
3) Demonstrating greetings and goodbyes following Deaf culture 2, 4 3.1, 4.1, & 5.1
tendencies.
Teaching Direct Method, Interactive Learning, Cooperative Learning, Notational-Functional Syllabus,
Methods and Whole Language
Vocabulary Greetings: “wave-hello,” “salute-hi,” HELLO
Reply: THUMB-UP, WHAT-UP, “F-handshape for ok”
Leave-takings: “wave-bye,” BYE-BYE “thumb-up,” SEE-you LATER, etc.
Grammar Eye-gazed when greeting and signing good-bye
Cultural How you greet and say your goodbyes is important within the Deaf community.
Application
Materials PowerPoint Presentation (Unit 7.13 under folder Unit 7)
Needed Picture Prompt
Bean Bag
Twenty-six situational images cards

Textbooks:
Signing Naturally
Teacher’s Level 2 pages 115 – 124;
Student Workbook page 62;

LESSON PROCEDURES
Activity Description Length
Roll Call/ The teacher throws a soft object to a student and asks the student to 5 mins
Opening fingerspell their first name and the person on the left. Lastly, the teacher
tells that student to pass/throw an object to another student and repeat the
process until everyone did it.
Review PowerPoint: Slide (1) Picture Prompt: Show an image of different people. 5 mins
The teacher demonstrates how to describe each individual. And then the
classroom will be split in half to allow each group to pick a person from the
image to describe it. The student will point to another student in which
she/he/it will repeat and so forth until everyone has their chance.
Teacher PowerPoint: Slide (2) Show gif of three different greetings “wave- 15 mins
Directed HELLO”, “salute-hi”, HELLO

The teacher will greet the students and get a reply by using one of the gifs.
Be sure they respond by using “one of” the greeting and made eye contact.

The teacher will demonstrate greeting by leaving the classroom and enter the
classroom.

Teacher signs: “HOW YOU”

(Students response vary) Teacher repeats what the students sign

PowerPoint: Slide (3) (image of emotion face: happy, sad, tired)

Teacher signs: THUMB-UP (point to picture)

Students’ response vary HAPPY, SAD, TIRED

Teacher signs: WHAT’S-UP

If some of the students don’t understand, repeat

Teacher sign: “F-handshape” YOU

If some of the students don’t understand, repeat
 PowerPoint: Slide (4) Two rows of images.
Top row: Happy face, sad face, tired face.
Bottom row: homework, class canceled, sick

The teacher will point two images: (happy face + class canceled)
Teacher sign: WHATS-UP.
The students’ responses vary.

Teacher sign HAPPY CLASS NONE.

Have the students sign HAPPY CLASS NONE

The teacher will point to two images: (tired face + sick)

Teacher sign: F-handshape
Students respond vary.

Teacher sign: ME TIRED WHY ME SICK.

Have the students sign ME TIRED WHY ME SICK.

PowerPoint: Slide (5) (gif “wave-bye” BYE-BYE, “SEE-you LATER”,

SEE-you TOMORROW) Have the students signs each phrase.

The teacher will demonstrate these phrases by signing before leaving the
classroom.

PowerPoint: Slide (6)

Image:
● Top row: gifs “wave-HELLO”, “salute-hi”, HELLO
● Second row: happy face, sad face, tired face,
● Third row: homework, class canceled, sick
● Bottom row: gifs “wave-bye,” BYE-BYE, “SEE-you LATER”, SEE-
you TOMORROW

Teacher will ask for a volunteer from the classroom to demonstrate a brief
dialogue.

Teacher will demonstrate by using the following steps:

T: use one of the greeting

S: greeting
T: WHAT-UP
S: reply vary. If student feel stuck, show PowerPoint slide #6.
T: Respond back to the student.
T: TIME ME LATE “SEE-you LATER” and leave the classroom.

Guided Students will be split into a group of 4 to practice their greetings and 5 mins
Practice goodbyes by using the PowerPoint: Slide (6)

Image:
 ● Top row: gifs “wave-HELLO”, “salute-hi”, HELLO
● Second row: happy face, sad face, tired face,
● Third row: homework, class canceled, sick
● Bottom row: gifs “wave-bye,” BYE-BYE, “SEE-you LATER”, SEE-
you TOMORROW

The teacher moves among students and assesses their work. When done,
teacher review and points out common errors seen during guided practice
and explains how to do them correctly
Independent The teacher will hand out four situations cards to a group of 4. Students 10 mins
Practice come up with the emotional connect with their situation cards. Students will
pair up in their group to practice greet, reply, and leave the situation. And
then switch with a different person within the same group and repeat the
dialogue. Each group pass the situations card to the next group and repeat.
Cultural Apply to real-life situations by explaining the long goodbye in Deaf Standard 5 mins
Application Time (DST). Compare Deaf and hearing cultures related to goodbyes.
Closure Ask students to share what they have learned during class. Explain 5 mins
upcoming assignment. Answer questions from students if need. Dismiss
class.
Assessment Informal: During group activities, use informal assessment techniques such N/A
as asking to repeat, observe, show puzzled-face, praise, rephrase, nod, recast,
clarify, expand, kimp, and et cetera.
Formal: Submit 30 seconds – 1minute video via Canvas demonstrate your
conversation by using a greeting, reply, describe a person from the image,
and to close your conversation. Evaluate using a rubric (attached).
Accommodations Work with the Office of Students with Disabilities. PowerPoint images will N/A
have alternative text along with black background.
Total 50 mins

References

Lentz, E.M., Mikos, K., & Smith C. (2014). Signing naturally units 7-12: Teacher

curriculum level 3. San Diego, CA: DawnSignPress.

Lentz, E.M., Mikos, K., & Smith C. (2014). Signing naturally unit 7-12: Student

workbook. San Diego, CA: DawnSignPress.