Family Signs

• American Sign Language
• 9th Grade

Unit 4 Family and Friends

Unit objectives

• Sign about family, friends, pets, and relationships
• Gain exposure to Deaf art
• Understand and use contrastive structure
• Identify the age spot and age-related signs
• Pronouns and numbers
• Personal Qualities

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Gender distinction in ASL

• Watch the following signs 
• See if you can identify the pattern 
• We will learn the signs after

Vocab

AUNT 

UNCLE

BROTHER

COUSIN

FATHER

PARENTS

SIBLINGS

GRAND FATHER

GRAND MOTHER

MOTHER

RELATIVES

SISTER

STEP-

TOTAL-ADD UP

TWINS

UNCLE

NIECE

NEPHEW

BOY 

SON

DAUGHTER

GRAND DAUGHTER

GRAND SON

Group Discussion 

• What did you notice?
• What parameter is important in gender distinction? 
•  Why do you think this is important? What could happen if you used gender distinction incorrectly?

I will call on groups after

Study tips

-Some of the signs are initialized

BUT many of them are not.

-Take a look at the location 

Quizlet 10 minute study

• Use the entire 10 minutes to study the vocab words on Quizlet
• Voices off 
• Raise your hand if you have questions

Practice

Next step

• Sign the following slides to yourself or with a partner
•  Make sure to note the location and the handshape (is it initialized?)
• On your whiteboard write the vocabulary word, location, and if it is initialized.
• Example: Uncle, near temple/side of head, U handshape/initialized

step

total,

add up

relatives

R handshape

Let's take a look at step

You can sign step two ways

L handshape

step-dad

or

fingerspell:

S-T-E-P

Great _____

finger spell fs G-R-E-A-T

GimKit

Family Signs Continued

• Family signs
• Discuss imediate and expanded family 
• What's your family like
• Family size

State Project

• I am still working on them, I hope to have them done by Friday or Saturday. 
• Please fill out the group reflection on lessonup
• You have five minutes to complete this 

Warmup

With your group try to write and sign as many vocab words that you remember from last class.

We will go group by group to sign them all.

What's your family like?

• Watch the following video, if you don't know what is happening that's ok you will be able to by the end
• See what you know, summarize what you think he is talking about

Watch it again

Immediate Family

Extended Family

member

family

sister in law

brother in law

relationship

baby

Group Practice

00:11

What is the answer to my question?

00:26

What is the answer to my question?

00:40

What is the answer to my question?

00:06

What is the answer to the question?

00:24

Answer the two questions I asked.

00:41

What is the answer to my question?

Handout

-Family handout on the back table

What is your family like?

What do you like to do?

What do you like to do with your family/friends

Play

sometimes

watch

TV

movie

Whiteboard: 

Using the vocabulary above create sentences for each vocabulary word below. Connect what family members or friends you like to do each activity with. 

Example: I like camping with who? my uncle

When you are done try signing them. 

Don't know the sign look it up.

Vocab:

1. camping

2. play games

3. watch tv

4. watch movies

Warm-up

Choose the sign

1. 
2. 
3. 
4. 

Choose the sign

1. 
2. 
3. 
4. 

What am I signing?

Coco family Game

Family Size

Family Size

family

big

medium

small

only

same

Watch me sign the family sizes again, watch my mouth. What do you notice?

Mouth morphemes

Mouth morphemes are important. The fall under the non-manual marker parameter. You must sign the correct mouth morpheme in order for the sign to be correct.

oo-small

mm-medium

cha-big

Guess the family

1.

2.

3.

Family Members

Family Members

All

child

children

people

have

parents

Warm-up

Listing vs Ranking

When listing siblings, do you think we should use listing or ranking

listing

ranking

Warm-up

• Determine if it is listing or ordering
• Listing/ordering practice 

Family

When listing family members you want to rank them from youngest to oldest. You will see this again when we learn about age later in the unit.

Why? because you are making a list of names/ages

Practice

• Sally 13
• Bob 10
• Jeff 23 

Practice

• George 5
• Billy 1
• Jack 17