Lesson 43 American Sign Language (ASL)

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Objectives:

___ I have taken the Lesson 43 Practice Quiz
___ I have taken the general practice quiz for this lesson. See: PRACTICE QUIZZES

List of signs and sentences:
Level 03 (Lessons 31 - 45) Practice Cards (in MS Word .doc format)
Level 03 Sentence List
Level 03 You Tube Playlist

Vocabulary:

Holiday
EASTER
HALLOWEEN
TURKEY
BELIEVE
HANUKAH
PUMPKIN
GHOST
SCARECROW
PILGRIM
NATIVE-AMERICAN
Santa Claus
New Year's Day (January 1)*
Independence Day (July 4)* [Spell July and sign 4th, or sign SAVE DAY]
Veterans Day (November 11)* [Spell VET and then sign DAY]
CHRISTMAS Day (December 25)*
Martin Luther King's Birthday (Third Monday in January)* [Spell MLK]
Washington's Birthday (Third Monday in February)*
Memorial Day (Last Monday in May)*
Labor Day (First Monday in September)* [Spell "LABOR" and sign DAY, or sign "WORK DAY"]
Columbus Day (Second Monday in October)* [Tap a "C" hand to your forehead then sign DAY]
THANKSGIVING (Fourth Thursday in November)*

Review Vocabulary

Expansion Vocabulary

VACATION-[L14]

Practice:

Practice sheet: 43.A
01. YOUR FAVORITE HOLIDAY WHAT?
02. EASTER HIDE WHAT?
03. HOLIDAY CELEBRATE J-A-N 1, WHAT?
04. THANKSGIVING YOU what-DO?
05. PUMPKIN PIE, YOU LIKE?

Practice sheet: 43.B
06. THANKSGIVING YOU EAT TURKEY?
07. YOU BELIEVE SANTA CLAUS YOU?
08. HALLOWEEN, WHAT DAY?
09. MEMORIAL-DAY HOLIDAY WHAT DAY?
10. WASHINGTON BIRTHDAY WHEN?

Practice sheet: 43.C
11. N-O-V 11, HOLIDAY what-NAME?
12. MLK BIRTHDAY WHEN?
13. COLUMBUS DAY WHEN?
14. NATIVE-AMERICAN HELP PILGRIM, HOW?
15. PUMPKIN, GHOST, SCARECROW, WHICH HOLIDAY HAVE?

Practice sheet: 43.D
16. CHRISTMAS, GIVE-[2h-X] YOU WANT WHAT?
17. JULY 4TH HOLIDAY what-NAME?
18. CHRISTMAS HABIT-[tradition] YOU HAVE?
19. YOU THINK TONIGHT FREEZE QM-wig?
20. CHRISTMAS, YOU LIKE SNOW YOU?

Additional Information:

CLASSIFIERS: ASL classifiers or "depictive verbs" are special signs that can be used to show size, shape, location, orientation, direction, and movement path. See: "Classifiers"

VACATION: The sign "VACATION" can be used to mean: Holiday, "OFF" (off work), break (take a break). If you initialize the sign VACATION with an "R" or do it with just the index and thumb, it can mean "retired."

Quizzes:

Self-study students, see: Lesson 43 Practice Quiz
Taking this as a class? Contact your local teacher or see your syllabus for the right quiz to take.

Notes:

The vocabulary list preserves the source's own capitalization and its asterisks on the federal-holiday entries. Independence Day, Veterans Day, Martin Luther King's Birthday, Labor Day and Columbus Day have no sign pages and are shown with the source's bracketed fingerspelling instructions instead of links; "CHRISTMAS Day (December 25)*" keeps the source's link on CHRISTMAS only, and "Washington's Birthday" keeps the source's two separate links. CELEBRATE (item 03) and TONIGHT (item 19) have no verified sign page in the corpus and are left unlinked in the practice sentences. The source's trailing "Curriculum revision notes and lesson archive" block was empty boilerplate and has been omitted.

Notes for development:

New Year's Day January 1
Independence Day July 4
Veterans Day November 11
Christmas Day December 25
Martin Luther King's Birthday Third Monday in January
Washington's Birthday Third Monday in February
Memorial Day Last Monday in May
Labor Day First Monday in September
Columbus Day Second Monday in October
Thanksgiving Fourth Thursday in November

ASL: Lesson 43