ASL 101 - Elem American Sign Language 1

1. Demonstrate receptive and expressive skills in American Sign Language by receiving and expressing basic commands and questions.
2. Make introductions, gain conversational attention and clarify information using American Sign Language.
3. Employ a receptive vocabulary of no less than 850 items and an expressive vocabulary of no less than 600 of those items.
4. Examine ASL classifier meanings by discussing concepts, movement roots and hand shapes morphemes.
5. Demonstrate receptive/expressive forms in sign, written in the grammatical structure American Sign Language GLOSS.
6. Identify each mouthing meaning and distinguish functions.
7. List signs that are typically combined with each mouthing.

1. Language in Action Segments of Signing Naturally Level 1
2. Digital Movies in American Sign Language
3. Hand Shape Stories and ABC Stories
4. Live Event Narratives, Skit Dialogues
5. Facial Expressions, Finger spelling, Parameters
6. American Sign Language Structure (OSV, Syntactic, Pragmatics) Classifiers, Role Shifting, Signing Speed, Mouthing, Numbering and Signing Space
7. American Sign Language GLOSS—Object-Subject-Verb (OSV)
8. Basic OSV, Topicalization
9. American Sign Language Classifier Structures
10. Receptive and Expressive Parameters: Hand Shapes, Location, Movements and Palm Orientations
11. Movement Roots: Stative-Descriptive, Process and Contact
12. Hand Shape Morphemes: Whole-Entity, Surface, Instrument, Dimensions, On-Surface
13. Mouthing Meanings

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