Lab 1: Station 1

Goal: Teacher candidates will identify the 4

basic sentence types of English:
Declarative, Imperative, Interrogative, and
Exclamatory

Notes:
English

Declarative

Makes a statement; declares something; ends in .

Imperative
Gives a command or orders; ends in ! or .; Often has no stated subject (You).

Exclamatory
Shows sudden emotion or feeling; exclaims; ends in !

Interrogative
Asks a question; interrogates; ends in ?
Three types: wh- questions, yes/no questions, tag questions

Notes:
Spoken
English

Declarative

Voice is neutral

Imperative

Voice may be forceful

Exclamatory

Pitch and/or volume increases; speed may increase

Interrogative

Voice goes up (y/n) or down (wh, tag) at end

Task
(Group) Create a VENN DIAGRAM or
CONCEPT WEB to show how the types of
sentences compare
(Group) Each person will create a Sentence
Pop-Up Book
(Individual) Complete Worksheet 1A

Learning
Strategy:
Concept
Maps

Learning
Strategy:
Foldables

Lab 1: Station 2
Goal: Teacher candidates will identify the 4
Direct vs Indirect Object

Sentence Structure: SVO

Subject
Action
Direct Object
Indirect
Object

Who/What did something?

What is the main NOUN?
What happened?
What is the (transitive) VERB?
____(verb) WHAT?

To whom/what?

Sentence Structure
Most English sentences are SVO: Subject,
Verb, Object
Direct Objects and Indirect Objects can come in
a variety of places in a sentence!
Subject

Verb

DO

IO

She

gave

the ball

to him

Subject

Verb

IO

DO

She

Gave

Him

The ball

IO

Subject

Verb

DO

To him

She

Gave

The ball

ASL Structure
ASL is in OSV format with the IO often
embedded.
DO

Subject

Verb+IO

BALL

ME

GIVE-YOU

A ball

Give to you

I give you a ball.

DO

Subject

Verb

ENGLISH

PICTURE

ME

PAINT

A picture

painted

Learning
Strategy:
Form-Focused
Instruction

ENGLISH

I painted a picture.

Task
(Group) CREATE a Graphic Organizer that
illustrates how to change from English DO/IO
sentence form to ASL DO/IO.
Using the given verbs and your Graphic
Organizer, create 5 samples

Learning
Strategy:
Sentence
Strips

Learning
Strategy:
Graphic
Organizers

Lab 1: Station 3
Goal: Teacher candidates will identify the 6
basic sentence types of ASL:
Declarative, Questions, Negation, Commands,
Topicalization, Conditionals

Declarative

Notes:
English

Makes a statement; no non-manual markers

Negation

Changes an affirmation to a negative;

Gives an order;

Object moved to emphasize;

head shake;

Commands

direct eye contact;

______neg

*WORD*

Topicalization

eyebrows up, head tilt, pause;

Conditionals

If, then statement; eyebrows up, pause, shift;

Questions

3 types: yes/no, wh, rhetorical

__t

____cond

ASL Questions

Y/N

Eyebrows up, body

tilt; hold sign
_____q
QM wg
(Question Mark
Wiggle)

WH
RH

Eyebrows down,
head titt
___wh-q

Eyebrows up
Not really a question
____Rhet

Task
(Group) Create a VENN DIAGRAM or
CONCEPT WEB to show how ASL & English
sentence types are similar
(Group) Create a stick figure character set to
illustrate the non-manual markers of each
sentence (Worksheet 1C)

Lab 1: Station 4
Goal: Teacher candidates will identify the
interjections

Notes:
English

Words that are used to express strong emotion,

but are not sound words (onomatopia).
Interjections also indicate pauses and delays
(fillers)
Wow!

Umm..
Oh!

Shoot!
Yikes
!
Hey..!
&#$@!

Notes:
English

Informally, we use interjections every day in our

online writing. Emoticons act as interjections
online. Students need to learn when these types of
communication
are/not appropriate.

<3
><

>^..^<
:(
*<|:)

Notes:
ASL

ASL also uses Interjections and Fillers.

Interjections can be used as a way to show the
listener that you are still attending:
* ah, yes yes, ok-ok
Interjections can also be used to show extreme
emotion
* PAH!
Fillers can be used to show that you have not
stopped your conversation.

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Task
(GROUP) View the following websites. Role
play a situation where you would use each of
these signs.

Learning
Strategy:
Role
Play

http://
www.handspeak.com/learn/index.php?id=36
(goo.gl/Aq5Feu)
http://
www.lifeprint.com/asl101/pages-signs/f/filler-sign
s.htm
(goo.gl/5QBjjW)
http://
www.lifeprint.com/asl101/pages-signs/s/succeed.
htm
(goo.gl/I9RsL5)

(Individual) Complete Grammar Graphics

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