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2011 Immersion Schedule:

June 3rd through June 25th, 2011, Fridays 6:00pm to 9:00pm and Saturdays 9:00am to 3:00pm -- plus 24 online hours

Classroom Schedule: [Draft]

Date	Time	Presenter / Leader	Topics:
June 3rd, Friday	6:00 pm	Program Director: Dr. Vicars Associate Director: Velma Foust	Welcome and Introduction
	7:00 pm	Vicars	Syllabus and Online Accounts
	8:00 pm	Unit Leader Nathan Neikirk	13: Locating Things Around the House
June 4th, Saturday	9:00 am	Vicars (few minutes) Neikirk	Unit 13 Continued
	10:00 am	Neikirk	Unit 13 Continued
	11:00 am	Visiting Professor: Dr. Egbert	Unit 13 Continued
	12:00 pm		Lunch
	01:00 pm	Unit Leader: Eric Crook	14: Complaining, Making Suggestions and Requests
	02:00 pm	Eric Crook	Unit 14 continued
June 10th, Friday	6:00 pm	Bill / Velma	Unit 14...
	7:00 pm	Bill / Velma
	8:00 pm	Bill / Velma
June 11th,  Saturday	9:00 am	Vicars 15 min  Then Joey 9:15 to 11:30
	10:00 am	Unit Leader: Joey Leonard	15: Exchanging Personal Information: Life Events
	11:30 am	Robert and Karen Foust	(Deaf Guest Visitors)
	12:00 pm		Lunch: Denny's from noon to 1:30
	01:30 pm	Joey from 1:30 to 2:45
	02:00 pm
June 17th,  Friday	6:00 pm	Velma Foust: 6:15 to 8:45 pm	Continued: Unit 15
	7:00 pm
	8:00 pm
June 18th, Saturday	9:00 am	Unit Leader: Jacqui Alfaro	16: Describing and Identifying Things
	10:00 am
	11:00 am		Guest Presenter: Lynda Park
	12:00 pm		Lunch
	01:30 pm		Guest Presenter:  Belinda Vicars
	02:00 pm
June 24th, Friday	6:00 pm
	7:00 pm	Unit Leader: Misha Ioffe	17: Talking about the Weekend
	8:00 pm
June 25th, Saturday	9:00 am	Unit Leader: Misha Ioffe	Unit 17 Continued: Talking about the Weekend
	10:00 am
	11:00 am
	12:00 pm		Lunch
	01:30 pm	Dr. Vicars	Final Exam
	02:00 pm		Feedback & Wrap-up

Presenters / Assistants / Tutors:

Alfaro, Jacqui: Unit Leader: 16
Champain, Melissa: Teacher Assistant / Tutor
Crook, Eric: Unit Leader: 14
Egbert, Lisalee: Visiting Professor
Foust, Velma: Associate Director
Ioffe, Misha: Unit Leader: 17
Leonard, Joey: Unit Leader: 15
Neikirk, Nathan: Unit Leader: 13
Park, Lynda: Presentation: "Introduction to Interpreting"
Ruff, Torre:
Vicars, Belinda: Presentation: "Money and Numbering"
Vicars, William: Director
 

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Online Assignment Schedule:
* Must submit to http://online.csus.edu for credit. 
Will explain and demonstrate the quiz submission process in class during the first session.

	Read	Study	Self-Test MC	Self-Test	Submit	Date Due
1	"Signing Naturally" Level 2 workbook, Unit 13 Pages 1-33	Unit 13 Study Guide	Unit 13 Quiz	Numbers 1-129	Submit Quiz 13	Thursday, June 9th
2	"Signing Naturally" Level 2 workbook, Unit 14 Pages 45-58	Unit 14 Study Guide	Unit 14 Quiz	Numbers 1-118	Submit Quiz 14	Thursday June 16th
3	"Signing Naturally" Level 2 workbook, Unit 15 Pages 63-86	Unit 15 Study Guide	Unit 15 Quiz	Numbers 1-121	Submit Quiz 15	Thursday June 16th
4	"Signing Naturally" Level 2 workbook, Unit 16 Pages 89-116	Unit 16 Study Guide	Unit 16 Quiz	Numbers 1-100	Submit Quiz 16	Thursday June 23
5	"Signing Naturally" Level 2 workbook, Unit 17 Pages 131-145	Unit 17 Study Guide	Unit 17 Quiz	Numbers 1-134	Submit Quiz 17	Saturday, June 25 (midnight)

 

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Signing Naturally - Unit 13:  Locating Things Around the House
A. Vocabulary/Language Functions
1. Give reason
2. Make request
3. Ask where
4. Give specific location
5. Correct / confirm information
6. Open conversation
B. Grammar
1. Topic-comment structure
2. Weak hand as reference
3. Locative classifiers
4. Yes/no questions
5. Wh-questions
6. Ordinal numbers
7. Numbers:101-109
8. Multiples of 100 -- 1,000
C. Suggested Culture - Handshape stories: ABC stories, number stories & one-handshape stories
 

Signing Naturally -- Unit 14:  Complaining, Making Suggestions and Requests ()
A. Vocabulary/Language Functions
1. complain about others
2. make suggestions
3. make request
4. ask for permission
5. express concern
6. decline, explain why
7. agree, with condition
8. agree with shortcomings
9. ask for clarification
B. Grammar
1. recurring time signs
2. continuous time signs
3. temporal aspect
4. inflecting verbs
5. role shifting
6. conditional sentences
7. clock numbers
C. Suggested Culture -- Cheers and Songs in the Deaf community

Exchanging Personal Information: Life Events (Signing Naturally - Unit 15)
A. Vocabulary/Language Functions
1. Ask , tell when
2. Tell about life events
3. Ask nationality of name
4. Narrate family immigration history
5. Correct and elaborate
B. Grammar
1. When clauses
2. Phrasing for sequencing events
3. Contrastive structure
4. Possessive forms: POSS,'S
5. Descriptive and locative classifiers
6. Numbers:109-119
7. Dates and addresses
C. Suggested Culture
1. ASL Poetry
2. Current events in the Deaf community
3. Famous Deaf Americans

Describing and Identifying Things (Signing Naturally Unit - 16)
A. Vocabulary/Language Functions
1. ask what a word means
2. give definition
3. describe object
B. Grammar
1. descriptive classifiers (shapes, patterns, textures)
2. instrument classifiers
3. weak hand as reference
4. topic-comment structure
5. non-manual markers: 'oo", "cha", "mm"
6. money numbers
C. Suggested Culture:
1. ASL Storytelling in the Deaf community
 

Talking About the Weekend (Signing Naturally -- Unit 17)
A. Vocabulary/Language Functions
1. Ask about the weekend
2. Describe weekend activities
3. Express opinions/feelings
4. Tell about disrupted plans
B. Grammar
1. Temporal sequencing
2. Time signs with durative aspect
3. Element classifiers
4. Numbers:120 -- 1,000
C. Suggested Culture
1. Registry of Interpreters for the Deaf (RID) and their role in the Deaf community
2. Legends in the Deaf community

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Practice and Projects: Presenters are welcome to allocate time for expressive and receptive practice or projects that enable application and consolidation of language, grammar and cultural components introduced in this program.

Presenters are not responsible for grading, but are encouraged to consider and develop opportunities for demonstration and measurement of learning and improvement. This can include pre-testing, as well as post-testing.

Additional Activities and Review: Presenters are welcome to include additional activities, materials from outside sources, class social activities with Deaf/hard of hearing visitors or guest speakers. Presenters are welcome to introduce ASL Poetry videos, various samples of ASL structure, mouth morphemes and/or classifier information.