ASL I: Basic 10 Story Assignment Sheet

Name/Period: Grammar Dialogue

Instructions: You are to write a dialogue with a partner. The material must be in ASL using each of the basic grammar rules listed below. Consult your notes for this information. Make sure you have a beginning, middle and end. Your conversation must make sense. It can be as long or as short as you need it to be as long as each grammar structure is used and it makes sense.

Grade:  60 points for signs, NMS, and fluency  40 points for grammar structures used and labeled correctly  25 points for quality of instruction to class (5 for reminding students to sign with you and 25 for detailed explanations of grammar structures.  -10 points if written format is incorrect  -5 points if it is not memorized

Remember to follow the heading sample and type and double-space using black ink, Times New Roman in 12 point font. All glossing marks should be typed, not hand written.

For your presentation you must: 1. Present the dialogue to the class in ASL—from memory 2. Put the glossed dialogue up on the screen using the book projector and a. Explain the grammar structures used in your part b. Teach the class your vocabulary by having the class sign your part with you

Use one each of the following grammar structures. Include all glossing marks. If a grammar structure does not have a glossing mark use the mark listed in ( ) to prove you know what it is. See below for format.

Fingerspelling (fs) Tense (tense) Directional Sign (ds) Loan Sign Negation Classifier Topic/Comment Initialization (int) Listing Yes/No Question Agent Marker (am) Shifting Wh Question Rule of 9 time (r of 9) FINISH (fish) Closing Signal (cs) Rule of 9 age (r of 9) Conditional Sentence Rhetorical Question Pronoun Incorp (pi)

Sample Format

Ima Student/period # Ima Partner/period # Grammar Dialogue

Signer A: ______tense______r of 9_ fs __rhq______t______FRIDAY MORNING TIME-6:30 fs-BOB GO STORE WHY MILK shift BREAD NEED.

______y/n-q_____fish______cs______wh-q______Signer B: STORE YOU SEE FINISH fs-BOB YOU? HE WITH WHO?

fs r of 9 am _cs_ Signer A: HIS SISTER fs-SARAH OLD-9 HE WITH. SHE DANCER SHE. Continue …