Unit 5 Study Questions

Who is credited with "inventing" the hand signals used in baseball to indicate balls and strikes? (pg. 248)

William Ellsworth Hoy

How do you ask what time a planned activity will take place?

"You went exercising when?"

Know how to ask how often one does an activity. Practice the phrases that indicate different levels of activity (pg. 258-60)

*"You go to library to study how often?" PRACTICE DVD

Know the 2 signs you can use to indicate you are going somewhere. Which sign is appropriate for use when sequencing activities? (pg. 252)

-"I'm going to the ______" use either 1. act of leaving to do something or 2. act of going to a specific place to do something. -Only 2. act of going to a specific place to do something

Know the different movements involved with time signs that reflect tense (pg. 235)

-"yesterday" -"Last Monday, the past Monday" -"Now, today" -"Tomorrow" -"Next Friday, this Friday" (Assuming Wednesday is today)

Know the steps for asking "what one did/will do". What is the sign "do" NOT used for?

-1. name the day, (raise brows) -2. ask what person did/will do, (lower brows, lean head forward, hold the last sign/"do")

In an ASL sentence the tense/time signs generally occur where? Why is the grammar constructed that way? What is known about the events following the time sign?

-At the beginning of the sentence -to establish tense -The tense (past, present, future)

Know how to discuss non-present people. When would you use contrastive structure? When would you use ranking? (pg. 245)

-Contrastive structure is only used when discussing two people. -Ranking is used to discuss items in rank order

If there is no time sign specified, the events listed are assumed to be in what tense?

-If not specified it is assumed to be in present tense

In ASL, a "when" question is only used to ask what? How is this different from English?

-In ASL, a "when" question can only be used to ask "what day" -In English, a "when" question can be used to ask for either "what day" or "what time."

Signing villages once existed in America. Where was one such village located? What was unique about the village described? (pg. 275)

-Martha's Vineyard, an island off Cape Cod -as many as 1 out of 25 people were deaf (compared to 1 in 6000 on the mainland) and all the inhabitants, deaf or hearing, used sign language.

Know how to talk about more than 2 non-present people who are not in rank order. What 2 things should you keep in mind when discussing each person? (Pg. 246-7)

-More than one person to talk about, designate 3 different points on a horizontal axis and point to each point, and starting on the non-dominant side -Don't forget: orient signs toward the designated location when discussing that person, & personal pronouns and possessive adjectives agree with the location when talking about the person

Know the appropriate answers to the question "Are you done?" (There are 2 possibilities) (pg. 249)

-Negative "No, I am not done" -Positive "Yes, I am done"

In ASL fingerspelling is usually used for what kind of words? Only certain words have been "borrowed" from English and used commonly in ASL as "signs". What are the 2 categories for these commonly fingerspelled words? The book lists 3 "tips" for understanding fingerspelling (pg. 273)

-Proper nouns -short, easy to fingerspell, word (mostly nouns) & specific kinds in a group (types of bread, kinds of housing, types of material) 1. watch the movement of the letters to help figure out the fingerspelled word 2. use context provided by the sentence to help understand what word is spelled 3. catch the first few letters and last letter and relying on context, make an educated guess for the word

Know what an agreement verb is and be able to give examples. How are the subject and object indicated using an agreement verb? How is that different from other types of verbs? (pg. 241)

-a verb that indicates the subject (the person doing the action) and the object (the person receiving the action) in its movement. Usually the verb moves from the subject towards the object.

What are plural pronouns used to indicate? Know the handshapes and movement involved in using plural pronouns. What sign should you use if there are 5 other people and yourself/ (pg. 264-5).

-indicate that a number of people did something together. -name the other people -use the corresponding plural pronoun to represent them and yourself 1. one other person and yourself ("The two of us...") 2. Two to four other people and yourself ("the three of us...", "the four of us...", "the five of us....") 3. For more than five other people and yourself ("all of us...")

Read, watch and understand the 5 translation tips for "DO". Know the appropriate usage for each (pg. 255-7)

1. "What did you do...?"/"What will you be doing?"/"what should I do?" 2. "needs to do"/"is required to do"/"is expected to do" 3. "Did you...?"/"Have you...?"/"Are you done with...?" 4. "Do you...?" 5. "when will you do...?" (WATCH! THIS IS CONFUSING)

Know the 4 steps involved in discussing an "out of the ordinary" activity. How is the transition sign used at the beginning different than the cardinal number 1? (pg. 261)

1. tell what happened 2. tell who you did the activity with, using a plural pronoun if needed 3. tell what you did, giving adequate details so your listener can appreciate your out of the ordinary experience 4. end the description by commenting on your experience

Know the steps for sequencing two activities. Pay attention to the non-manual behaviors that accompany the transition sign PRACTICE THIS (pg. 251-2)

1.use different locations in your signing space to represent each activity and orient signs about the activity toward that space 2. Use the sign at left to transition from one activity to the next transition sign 3. Make sure the mvt. of the verb for "to go" shows agreement with the activities' established locations 4. raise your brows and head at the beginning of the "transition" sign 5. lower your head at the end of the sign

What was Clayton Valli most known for? What did he research? what were some of the themes found in his works? Where did he teach?

ASL Poetry -ASL poetry -his experience of the beauty in the world and his language -ASL poetry

Know how the hand positions for "G" and "H" may be altered depending on the preceding or following letter (pg. 245)

G and H are the same but titled outward

Know how to refer to dates in future and past weeks (pg. 266-7)

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