Year 10 Let's Explore Sign Language!
SGNLES Course Description Recommended Prior LearningTo be successful in this course it is recommended students have taken the Let’s Start Sign Language course prior to taking Let’s Explore Sign Language (the full year sign language course).
This course is a full year long and occupies 2 option slots. If you choose this course please ensure to reduce your total course selection by one to accommodate it.
The big question: How can we convey meaning in a visual way?
This course is designed to build on learning from Let’s Start Sign Language in a fun, practical and interactive way. There are three main units of work: Deaf Deaf World, Come Dine with me, and a zoo trip.
You will learn about Deaf people in other countries and what rights they have, and challenges and obstacles that Deaf people face. You will learn about resilience, but also look at adaptations or solutions we could make to our world to make life easier for diverse groups.
In the Come Dine With Me unit, students will learn recipes in sign language, cook together in a group using sign language, and critique each other’s meals using the target language.
Students will be able to sign/present about a specific animal at the zoo, learn vocabulary related to animals, habitat and feeding routines and have the opportunity to ask questions in a zoo setting. The purpose of this activity is for students to get used to signing in a range of settings/scenarios, and work on confidence in interactive situations.
Learning Areas:
Assessment Information
MANA REO (COMMUNICATING)
Students will be assessed on their ability to communicate their knowledge, understanding and skills.
• Pre-structural - I need support to describe ideas and/or information.
• Uni-structural - I can describe an idea and/or information.
• Multi-structural - I can describe ideas and information.
• Relational - I link ideas and information together and explain my understanding.
• Extended Abstract - I apply my understanding to discuss my ideas in new ways.
WHAKAARO (THINKING)
Students will be assessed on their ability to develop their levels of thinking in a variety of learning experiences.
• Pre-structural - I need to support to think of an idea.
• Uni-structural - I can think of an idea.
• Multi-structural - I can think of several ideas.
• Relational - I link ideas together to organise my thinking.
• Extended Abstract - I apply my thinking in creative ways.
Level 1 Sign Language, Level 2 Sign Language
Contributions and Equipment/Stationery (Approximate)Students are required to have a 1B8 exercise book, a clearfile, pens, pencils, scissors and glue