ASL 2 Intermediate — Teens (Ages 13–18) · 24-Week Course
$15 per class or $360 for all 24 classes
In this 24-week live ASL 2 course, teens build on ASL 1 skills to hold longer conversations, understand signed messages, and express connected ideas with greater clarity. Learners practice follow-up questions, turn-taking, clarification, and conversational repair.
Weekly topics include time sequencing and calendar narratives; describing people and relationships; indexing, pronouns, and spatial referencing; directional verbs; classifiers for people, objects, vehicles, and movement; facial grammar and other nonmanual signals; opinions and reasons; role shifting and storytelling; and Deaf culture and community norms. The course also includes guided conversations about school, community, daily routines, past events, and future plans.
We meet once a week for 30 minutes. Each lesson builds on earlier skills and follows a clear routine: a short review, visual modeling of new signs or grammar, guided practice, and an interactive activity or conversation. I teach with a supportive, visual approach using demonstrations from multiple angles, written vocabulary and slides when helpful, repeated receptive examples, and time to practice before performing.
Learners interact with the instructor throughout class through signed responses, comprehension checks, games, partner or group conversations, scenario practice, and short story retells. I give specific, respectful feedback and can repeat or slow a model when needed. A midcourse check and final expressive and receptive demonstration help learners see their progress.
What Your Learner Will Do
- Learners will sustain guided ASL conversations using follow-up questions, clarification, and conversational repair strategies.
- Learners will use indexing, directional verbs, classifiers, spatial referencing, and nonmanual signals in connected messages.
- Learners will understand and retell moderately paced familiar messages and produce an organized short story with role shifting.
Prerequisites: Learners should have completed ASL 1 or have equivalent skills: clear fingerspelling, numbers 1–100, basic topic-comment sentences, introductions, familiar vocabulary, and basic WH and yes/no questions.
Syllabus
24 Lessons · over 24 Weeks
Week 1: ASL 1 Bridge and Voice-Off Reset
Learners review ASL 1 foundations and complete short expressive and receptive checks while establishing voice-off classroom routines.
Week 2: Conversation Expansion and Follow-Up Questions
Learners extend conversations with follow-up questions, turn-taking, and clarification strategies.
Week 3: Time Sequencing and Calendar Narratives
Learners organize events using time-topic-comment order and sequencing transitions.
Week 4: Sentence Expansion with Details
Learners add descriptive details to topic-comment sentences while maintaining clear ASL word order.
Week 5: Describing People and Relationships
Learners use respectful general-to-specific descriptions and relationship vocabulary.
Week 6: Places, Environments, and Spatial Maps
Learners establish locations and referents in signing space to describe familiar environments.
Week 7: Directional and Agreement Verbs
Learners use directional verbs to show who acts on whom in short connected messages.
Week 8: Indexing, Pronouns, and Possession
Learners maintain consistent spatial references with indexing, pronouns, and possessive forms.
Week 9: Classifier Foundations: CL:1 and CL:B
Learners use entity and surface classifiers to represent people, objects, and locations.
Week 10: Classifier Movement: CL:3
Learners use CL:3 to show vehicles, paths, direction, and movement.
Week 11: Combining Classifiers
Learners combine classifiers to construct clear multi-element scenes and actions.
Week 12: Midcourse Receptive and Expressive Check
Learners demonstrate conversation, spatial grammar, and classifier skills and receive targeted feedback.
Week 13: Daily Routines as Connected Discourse
Learners describe a complete daily routine using sequence, transitions, and appropriate time markers.
Week 14: Opinions, Preferences, and Reasons
Learners express preferences and reasons using WHY, BECAUSE, and rhetorical framing.
Week 15: Real-Life Scenario: School and Community
Learners apply intermediate ASL in guided school and community conversations.
Week 16: Nonmanual Signals for Meaning
Learners use facial grammar and body movement to mark questions, negation, degree, and affect.
Week 17: Story Foundations
Learners organize a signed story with a clear beginning, middle, and end.
Week 18: Role Shifting for Dialogue
Learners use body shift, eye gaze, and character placement to present dialogue.
Week 19: Past Events and Future Plans
Learners establish time and describe past experiences and future plans in connected ASL.
Week 20: Cause, Effect, and Problem Solving
Learners explain causes, effects, and solutions using organized connected messages.
Week 21: Deaf Culture, Community, and Register
Learners examine Deaf community norms and adjust signing choices for audience and setting.
Week 22: Story Retelling from a Model
Learners identify key details in a signed model and retell the message in an organized sequence.
Week 23: Final Conversation and Story Workshop
Learners revise a conversation and short story using instructor and peer feedback.
Week 24: Final Expressive and Receptive Demonstration
Learners complete integrated expressive and receptive tasks demonstrating ASL 2 outcomes.