Friday, January 16

At first when I came in, I started watching the video ago. I watched it for a few minutes and got through the first three categories. Then I found this new thing that helps you learn words spelled out. You can choose how many letters the word has and how fast they spell it. Then you guess the word that they are spelling. http://asl.ms/ this is the link to the website. This "game" helped me realize that I need to go over the alphabet a few more times.

Since I was getting most of the words wrong, I pulled the alphabet pictures up again and went over them a few more times. Then I went back to the game and I got more of the correct so I went up in the number of letters each word has. Its pretty hard but im starting to get the hang of it.

Friday, January 9

                  Since we have been out for Christmas break and I haven't reviewed sign language in a few weeks, I decided to go back over the simple things like the alphabet and some of the symbols in the video. Before I went over these things I could barely remember any of the letters or symbols. Hopefully after going over them a few more times I will be able to remember them no matter how long I don't go over them. The video I've been watching is http://lifeprint.com/asl101/pages-layout/concepts.htm. They show you how to say a bunch of words without having to spell them out with each letter in the alphabet.
                     By going over all these words I hope to have them completely memorized. You can use sign language for many things. Most people believe that they don't need to know sign language because none of their friends or family members can't hear, but what they don't realize is that maybe they'll run into a deaf person one day. Then what are they going to do?

Project Proposal

          20% Time Project Proposal

 

Name: Haleigh Jinright

Project Title:  Sign Language

Project Start Date: Friday, November 7, 2014

Project Completion Date: May 2014

Mentor’s Name: Mrs.Browning, Emma Grant, Rebecca Bower, and my mom

Brief Description: This year during 20% Time in class I’m spending my time learning sign language. I feel like sign language can be very useful because if you’re trying to talk to someone who can’t hear you have to use something else for them to understand. Most people that are deaf know sign language. I feel like everyone should learn how to use sign language. Even if you don’t see that many people that can’t hear, you might end up running into someone like that one day and if you don’t know sign language then you won’t be able to communicate with them.

 

Overview of Project Proposal

 

1) Project Objective: To learn how to use sign language for a complete sentence and to know how to communicate with it.

 

2) Project Rationale:

 

3) Project Steps: First I learned how to spell my name. Second I plan on learning regular everyday words. Then I want to learn symbols.

 

4) Timeline of Activities: First I want to learn my name or my friend’s names. Second I want to learn simple but everyday words. Third, I’m going learn the symbols for words. At the end of my project I want to be able to use sign language like I use English.

 

5) Available Human and Material Resources: This can help me speak to people that can’t hear me.

 

6) Possible Road Blocks: One Roadblock that I might have is that I might forget how to spell things. Another Roadblock would be that I would get bored doing this or I might learn most of the things and not know what to do next.

 

7) Research Questions:

·         How many symbols are there for sign language?

·         How do people learn sign language if they can’t hear?

·         How do people that are deaf remember sign language?

·         Who created sign language?