Media

Applause for American Sign Language (ASL) Interpreters

Goals

  • think critically about non-fiction text and videos and respond to related questions

The Learning Task

Please view the videos in the following links and read the accompanying articles:

Before viewing and reading, consider:

  • What other languages do you know? Are there specific considerations unique to your second, third, fourth ect. language? How does it benefit you to be able to understand and speak other language(s)?

When viewing and reading, consider:

  • Outside of ASL, how do ASL interpreters enhance their given messages?

After viewing and reading, consider:

  • How could you use non-verbal communication in your everyday interactions to enhance your communication?
  • What other communities (like the deaf community) might need different supports to clearly understand important messages? How might we meet those needs?
  • What is the essential message being communicated about access of information for all people?

Represent your thinking and learning in an elevator pitch that you share with your family, or a mind map that you may also share so others can learn from you about what you have learned.

Daily task! Don’t forget to engage with your Writer’s Notebook: Creating a Place for Reflection

Note: please see the information in this lesson for guidance. But, fill out today’s form with your response! (Wednesday March 25, 2020 form is no longer accepting responses.)

We don’t have any Writer’s Notebook entries to share with you today! Please complete your journal entry and share with us; your words might be what someone needs to read.

If you would like to share your thinking, thoughts and wonderings with other students in the Waterloo Region District School Board as above, please share your journal entry using this form. Your entry may be chosen to share within our system. This is NOT a requirement and it is your personal choice to share.

Look Both Ways: A Tale Told in Ten Blocks

by Jason Reynolds, Alexander Nabaum (Illustrator)

From National Book Award finalist and New York Times bestselling author Jason Reynolds comes a novel told in ten blocks, showing all the different directions a walk home can take.

This story was going to begin like all the best stories. With a school bus falling from the sky. But no one saw it happen. They were all too busy: talking about boogers, stealing pocket change, skateboarding, wiping out, braving up, executing complicated handshakes, planning an escape, making jokes, lotioning up, finding comfort, but mostly too busy walking home.

Jason Reynolds conjures ten tales (one per block) about what happens after the dismissal bell rings, and brilliantly weaves them into one wickedly funny, piercingly poignant look at the detours we face on the walk home, and in life.