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Nancy Cole Date: Fri Sep 29, 2000 10:00 pm Subject: Re: SW helps to express students thoughts | |
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Hi Stefan! MJ is a really popular Deaf Woman. She is Deaf from Deaf (family) and has written many books on ASL and video tapes. I'm not sure what to say about her, because I don't think my words would give her the credit she deserves. I think she is like a Deaf rebel. She teaches the hearing about Deaf Culture. I don't think there is any Deaf person here in the US that hasn't heard of MJ. I also think she was responsible or making ASL a foreign language is some of our schools, but I'm not sure. My kids have a SW journal. I write down the new handshape groups and they come up with the signs that go along with it and they try to draw whatever sign they think of. Then I tell them to write down whatever they want in their journals in SW. They like that and it takes them a whole hour to finish their thoughts on paper. We play games to match the SW with the English print too. Today, we thought of nouns in SW and color coded them. We also did verbs and noun markers. For example the nouns would be color orange SW then verbs in red. Noun markers are not used in ASL, but I told them in English it is always in front of a noun. We got up to 4 colors and they wrote sentences in color coded SW. They draw it in ASL first and then I show them what the English sentence looks like in color code. They liked that alot. I have shapes too that help them with making up sentences and switching them to English. If you see their journals it looks like a mess, but I never critized, and they seem to be learning alot. Alot of it kinda looks like baby talk, then they learn how to draw the sign a different way and it looks better. I think they only had problems with the curved hand shapes. Anyways, I'm still learning, and need alot more to learn like how to use the computer. We have a new boss, so now I have to start all over and convince her to get the materials I need. Oh, also I do the kids spelling words the same way. First, if they don't know the word I draw it in SW, and they have to use one of their new words in their SW journal. You know at first it was hard to get them to write on their own, now they don't want to stop, so that's encouraging to me. I must be doing something right! Smile Nancy |
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