After School Routines, Sports and Seasons

• American Sign Language
• 9th Grade

Sports

Objectives:

• Understand Deaf Culture and Sports 
• Using prior knowledge, review the seasons and connect them with Sports 
•  Predict ASL sentence structure for identifying the sport and season it is in 
• Present your season and sports
• Add to your afternoon routines 

Warm-up

Review Sports 

Culture Note

Why do you think this was important to the Deaf Community?

Other Sports that may be important to the Deaf community?

Baseball

Group

Why do you think baseball maybe important to the Deaf community? 

Sports and Seasons

YOU PLAY WATCH DIFFERENT SPORTS DIFFERENT SEASONS?

YES

NO

Seasons- what do you recognize? why?

Why: 

think back to 

• weather
• temp

YEAR-ROUND

Practice

SUPPOSE YOU PLAY SPORTS DIFFERENT SEASONS, YOUR SCHEDULE WHAT?

Practice

• We will connect sports to seasons. 
• We will first predict the sentence structure and then practice it. 
• You will be presenting at the end, so make sure you are signing

Groups

On your desk, work with your group to predict/discuss how to change the following English sentences to ASL. 

1. English: The sport I have is bowling.

ASL: 

2. English: Bowling is played year-round.

ASL:

Sentence Starters: 

MY SPORT ____________ or SPORT I HAVE ________

_________ PLAY __________ SEASON

Sentence Starters: 

MY SPORT ____________

_________ PLAY __________

Sentence Starters: 

MY SPORT ____________

_________ PLAY __________

Sports and Seasons

• Voices off
• I will give you a season, match the sports that are played that season
• Does it depend on if it's girls or boys? Let us know. Example: GIRL TENNIS SPRING, BOY TENNIS FALL
• You will present this to the class, make sure each team member signs one of the sports using the sentence starter

Sports and your Routine

• If you play multiple sports in different seasons, pick one 
• Let's take a look at incorporating time, season, and sport 

You will work in teams. 

You need: whiteboard markers

one whiteboard for your team

First one to show me your sentence and sign it receives the point

Make a sentence using the pictures:

Make a sentence using the pictures:

Make a sentence using the pictures:

Make a sentence using the pictures:

Exit ticket

Fill in the afternoon activities handout