Deaf Do's and Don'ts

Age, Level: C1, High School

Length of Lesson: 90 minutes

Materials Needed:

1. Worksheet of Deaf Do’s and Don’ts for students to take home. (for Assessment). 

2. Slips of paper with scenarios written on them. 

3. Adobe Spark Video for further instructions for teachers and students.

Learning Objectives / SWBAT…

1. Recall ASL signs from last class and apply recent knowledge to new knowledge.

2.  Understand proper ways to interact with a Deaf person.

3. Use Adobe Spark to roleplay a situation of communicating with someone who is deaf or hard-of-hearing.

4. Relate communication with someone who is deaf back to their own experiences or to communication with people who speak other languages.

Warm Up and/or Review

Time: 15 minutes                             LO #s targeted: 1

Activity Type/Name: Recall ASL alphabet and learn 3 new signs

Steps/Directions:

1. Tell the students they are going to sign the alphabet as a class. (2 ½ minutes) 

2. The teacher will provide a visual of the alphabet on the board. 

3. Tell the students they are going to learn 3 signs that represent Hearing, Hard-of-Hearing and Deaf. 

4. Teacher will demonstrate and the students will follow. 

5. The teacher will say Hard-of-Hearing, Deaf and Hearing and the students have to make the correct sign to the words that are said out loud. 

Assessment

Time: 25-30 minutes                       LO #s targeted: 2,3

Activity Type/Name: Explanation of Do’s and Don’ts

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pDA_EXFTpxo 

Steps/Directions:

1. Teacher will play a video that explains the do’s and don'ts of interacting with the Deaf community in social situations. (7 minutes) 

2. Ask the students to watch the video once through.

3. Teacher will handout the worksheet and play the video again 

4. Tell the students to fill out the worksheet of do’s and don’ts related to the video while watching it a second time. 

5. Ask the students if they have any additional do’s and don’ts that should be added. 

6. Ask the students to write a couple of bullet points of why learning about the Deaf culture is important to them. (about 3 minutes) 

7. Go over the do’s and don’ts as a class and ask for examples of how to display the do’s in a social situation. 

CCQs:

• “What will we do after watching the video?” ← fill out a T-chart of do’s and don’ts

• “What is the video explaining?” ← the do’s and don’ts of Deaf culture.

• “Can anyone give me an example of a DO? and DON’T

Practice + Assessment

Time: 35-40 minutes                   LO #s targeted: 2, 3  

Activity Type/Name: Roleplay: Adobe Spark Video

Steps/ Directions:

1. Break up the class into small groups of five.

2. Give each group a slip of paper that has a scenario written on it. 

3. The groups of students will read the scenarios given to them and have to act out two “do’s” and two “don’t’s” of communicating with a deaf person.

4. One person will act as the deaf person, another will be the bystander, and the other members will explain the situation while it is being acted out and why it is correct or incorrect. The explanation can either be oral or written on the slides.

5. Using Adobe Spark video, the groups will have to make a video of themselves acting out the scenario given with the explanation.  The video can include photos, videos, and text. 

6. The video can be up to two minutes maximum.

7. Once the video is complete, each group will present it to the class. 

Note for teacher

Example slide show:

How to use Adobe Spark Video:

1. Go to the website: https://spark.adobe.com/make/video-maker/

2. Click on: Create your own video now

3. You will come to a login screen.  Make a free account or sign up using school ID.

4. Once you’re logged in, you have the choice to make a post, page, or video. Click on the plus sign under “Video”.

5. Create a title for your video,

6. Choose a template, or create your own.

7. Choose a theme.  Note: you can change it at any time.

8. On the top right, you can choose themes, layouts, and music for your video.

9. Add photos, videos, text, or icons by clicking on the plus button in the middle of the video box.

10. You can choose videos up to 30 seconds in the .mp4 or .mv4 format.

11. You can add a voice over to the video or photo by clicking on the orange circle with the microphone inside.

CCQs:

• “What are the roles that your group will decide on?” → someone who is acting as a deaf person, a bystander, and explainers for the “do’s” and “don’ts”

• “How many do’s and don’ts do you need to include in your video?” → two of each

Conclusion

Time: 5 min.                        LO #s targeted: 4

Wrap Up Activity: Connect it/relate it to ESL students: 

1. How it is difficult for ESL students to communicate in situations that may be new to them. 

2. Ask students to give examples of when they had trouble communicating with someone. EX; at the grocery store or at the movies.